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 …

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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 …

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 …

NAACL Paper Titles Over Time

Inspired by Kristina Gulordava's NAACL18 word cloud (Thanks!), here are some fun word clouds from NAACL2007, NAACL2013 and NAACL2018 paper titles. Topics like Translation and Extraction have been consistently popular over years, and topics like Neural Networks, Generation and Representations have become trendy. Happy to see 'Language' is always one of the top ranked words. …

List of Accepted Papers

Here is the list of long and short papers accepted by the research track. Congratulations to all authors! We will post the detailed technical program soon at the NAACL website. Great thanks to all of our wonderful area chairs and reviewers for their hard work in the past three months! Looking forward to meeting everyone …

Acceptance and Author Feedback

#Accepted Papers Across Areas Our advice to the area chairs was as follows: group labels no more than 15% of your submissions “Accept”, and no more than another 20% “Lobby for Accept” or “Maybe Accept”, unless the area has fewer than 20 submissions. Area Long Short Information Extraction 24 12 Semantics 19 19 Summarization 14 …

Outstanding Reviewers and Ad-hoc Reviewers

Outstanding Reviewers We thank all reviewers for spending their valuable time on reviewing NAACL paper submissions! The following are outstanding reviewers nominated by area chairs: Omri Abend Manex Agirrezabal Cem Akkaya Enrique Alfonseca Dimitrios Alikaniotis Tim Anderson Layla El Asri Michael Auli Wilker Aziz Mohit Bansal Valerio Basile Roberto Basili Beata Beigman-Klebanov Jonathan Berant Delphine Bernhard …

Analysis of Long Paper Reviews

Long paper review scores across areas:   Area Ave before response Ave after response Min Max Speech 3.9 3.75 2.5 5 Vision, Robotics and Other Grounding 3.83 3.65 2 5 Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing 3.55 3.56 1.67 5 Machine Translation 3.37 3.34 1.33 4.67 Theory and Formalisms 3.37 3.38 2 4.67 Dialogue and Interactive …

This Chasing Game is Not Fun

By the long paper review deadline January 25, which is also the start date of the author response period, we were still missing 63 reviews for long papers. The PC chairs and area chairs had to kick-off a painful chasing game: keep sending reminder emails to late reviewers, if no response within one day then: …

A Review of Reviewer Assignment Methods

Authors: Amanda Stent and Heng Ji (NAACL-HLT2018 PC Chairs) The Reviewer Assignment Problem The reviewer assignment problem is the task of assigning submissions to reviewers so as to ensure a "fair" and "balanced" assignment. This problem has been widely studied (Price & Flach, 2017). The problem is most often described in terms of constraint satisfaction; …