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 …

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 …

A First Look at the Research Track Schedule

NAACL HLT 2018 will feature: June 1: Tutorials June 2-4: Research Track June 2-3: Industry Track June 5-6: Workshops The research track will include keynotes,  long and short paper oral and poster presentations from TACL and from submissions accepted to NAACL HLT 2018, and demos. And of course there will be a NAACL business meeting …

Long Paper Accepts/Rejects

After all the research track decisions are made we will provide detailed analyses of the submissions, reviews and decisions. For now, (so as not to unduly bias the short paper reviewing process) we will provide only overview numbers for long paper submissions. The Raw Numbers Of the 665 long paper submissions, 60 were withdrawn by …

Long Paper Reviewers: Read Authors’ Responses

We have received the author responses for long paper submissions to NAACL HLT 2018. You now have through February 9th to read these responses and if necessary, adjust your reviews, at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2018/papers/. To see all the reviews and the author responses in START, you should: in the main page after you log in, click Track …

It’s Not All About the Number

Some reviewers and authors have contacted us to inquire if the only factor in the eventual decision on a submission will be the overall score. That's not how the review process should work, and it is not how it will work for NAACL HLT 2018. We know (http://inverseprobability.com/2014/12/16/the-nips-experiment) that reviewing is imperfect. We constructed a …

About Our Reviewers

You may recall that one of our goals for NAACL HLT 2018 is to ensure broad participation. We recruited a pool of 1247 program committee members. To do this in a non-biased fashion, we re-used a method used for NAACL HLT 2016 - we invited people who have published repeatedly in *CL venues (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, …

A Review Form FAQ

To help you navigate and understand the new review form, Amanda and Heng (the PC chairs) have each reviewed an already published paper. In this post, we provide our reviews. At the bottom there is a FAQ. Recall that our main goals with this new form are to get better quality reviews and put together …

Long Paper Reviewing Notes

We have assigned 826 reviewers to review the NAACL HLT 2018 long paper submissions. (As a reminder, long paper reviews are due by January 24th.) Here's how we did it: If you filled out our survey (or otherwise communicated your area preferences) then we assigned you to your areas of preferences, to make it easier …