Making a Good Oral Presentation

A few words of practical advice about making a good oral presentation: Show your passion. Passion is contagious. The purpose of your talk is to get people interested to read your paper. Show that you are excited about the work you did and about the research topic in general. Have a clear take-home message. What …

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The thinking behind the ACL preprint policy

by Christopher Manning. In October 2017, after much discussion and surveying, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) adopted new policies on submission, review, and citation. A key change was to disallow conference submission of papers that have been posted or updated as non-anonymous preprints during a period from one month before the submission deadline until after …

How to give a good talk on a Computational Linguistics topic

“We are delighted to inform you..” Yes, you made it. Congratulations! And you’re off to planning your trip to the next conference, to enjoy the next breeze of fresh research ideas (or the conference surroundings...). But wait a minute. You have to prepare that talk. Publishing is more than just writing papers. It is an …

Session Chair Duties

We wrote some basic guidelines about how to be a good session chair for the oral presentations. Hope it will be helpful for junior chairs who are serving this task for the first time.  The main conference program schedule is at: http://naacl2018.org/program.html Please take a look and identify your session. By May 20: Email the …

Final Submissions FAQ

Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about final submissions. I. What paper size? A4 (source: NAACL HLT 2018 template instructions, page 1, column 1) II. Are acknowledgements to be included in the 9 (long)/5 (short) pages of content? Yes. III. Should appendices be included in the paper PDF, or go with supplemental …

Outstanding Papers

The selection of outstanding papers and best paper includes four steps: Step 1: Area chairs nominated 19 submissions. Step 2: PC chairs selected 9 submissions as candidate outstanding papers. Step 3: We composed an outstanding and best paper award committee that consists of five area chairs who are experts in various areas and don't have conflict-of-interest …

Preliminary Schedule

This schedule is subject to addition or modification (especially June 4th); more detail will be provided following the final paper submission deadlines. Time June 2 June 3 June 4 08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks Announcements Announcements 09:00-10:00 Research Track Keynote: Charles Yang Research Track Keynote: Kevin Knight Research Track Keynote: Dilek Hakkani-Tür 10:00-10:30 Coffee 10:30-11:30 Parallel Oral …

Final Submissions

It is one week until the final submission deadline(s) for NAACL HLT 2018! We are looking forward to receiving your final submissions to the industry and demo tracks by April 15th, and to the research track by April 16th. This post reviews the instructions for final submissions which can be found at: Research track (short …

Test-of-Time Award Papers

We formed two award committees to select the Test-of-Time awards from 19 papers nominated by area chairs. Expert award committee: consisted of all ACL and NAACL conferences’ general chairs, program chairs and NAACL board chairs between 2013-2018. Community award committee: consisted of all the top 1000 authors ranked by the ACL Anthology Network, based on …

Submissions to the Industry Track

Submissions to the Industry Track closed on February 20th, and we received a lot more papers than we anticipated. After several days of soliciting last minute reviewers and making reviewing assignments, the papers are now in the capable hands of the reviewers and we finally had some time to take a breather and do some …