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EMNLP 2014: Final Call for PARTICIPAT​ION
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EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
October 25–29, 2014 — Doha, Qatar
Final Call for PARTICIPATION
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SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest
group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites
participation to EMNLP 2014, the 19th conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing.

The conference will be held on October 25–29, 2014, in Doha, Qatar. The
conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two
days of workshops and tutorials.

Conference URL: http://www.emnlp2014.org<http://www.emnlp2014.org/>. For
information about Doha and Qatar, and an up-to-date FAQ go to
http://emnlp2014.org/local.html.

Please join us for an exciting conference in Doha, Qatar!
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* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS

Conference Handbook
http://emnlp2014.org/files/handbook.pdf

Conference Program
http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf

Instructions for Presenters
http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html

Trip Preparation Information
http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html


* LATEST FEATURES

# Flat rate to attend any workshops and tutorials
# Lunch, breakfast and coffee breaks are included every day
# Social dinner included in the conference fee


* INVITED SPEAKERS

EMNLP 2014 will host two world-class invited speakers for the keynote
talks:

IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance!
Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Learning from Rational Behavior
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University

More details at: http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html


* TUTORIALS

For the first time, EMNLP 2014 will have tutorials. The following eight
tutorials have been accepted and will be presented during October 25 and
29, 2014:

Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Texts --- Saif M. Mohammad and
Xiaodan Zhu

Spectral Learning Techniques for Weighted Automata, Transducers, and
Grammars --- Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni and Xavier Carreras



Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars --- Yoav Artzi,
Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer



Linear Programming Decoders in Natural Language Processing: From Integer
Programming to Message Passing and Dual Decomposition --- André F. T.
Martins

Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation --- Philip Williams and
Philipp Koehn

Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing --- Antoine Bordes and
Jason Weston



Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects --- Mona Diab and
Nizar Habash



Text Quantification --- Fabrizio Sebastiani

See http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html for more details.


* WORKSHOPS

EMNLP 2014 will host the following 6 one-day workshops, which will take
place during October 25 and 29, 2014:

Arabic NLP — Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop --- Nizar
Habash, Stephan Vogel, Kareem Darwish, Behrang Mohit, Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi
Zaghouani

TextGraphs-9 — Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing ---
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Amarnag Subramanya, Gabor Melli, Irina Matveeva

CodeSwitch — Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching ---
Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Julia Hirschberg, Thamar Solorio

SSST-8 — Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in
Statistical Translation --- Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, Eva
Maria Vecchi

MOOC — Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online
Courses --- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, George Siemens

LT4CloseLang — Language Technology for Closely-Related Languages and
Language Variants --- Preslav Nakov, Petya Osenova, Cristina Vertan

See http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html for more details.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if registered for 5 days, participants will be free to
attend any tutorials and workshops during the two days (October 25 and 29),
allowing as many changes as desired.


* REGISTRATION

Registration is available on-line:

http://emnlp2014.org/register.html


To check on the requirements and procedures for visas, conference hotels at
special rates, and general and touristic information about the venue and
Qatar, please visit the conference website: http://emnlp2014.org<
http://emnlp2014.org/>


* Organizing EMNLP 2014

General Chair

Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Program Co-Chairs

Bo Pang, Google
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp

Workshops Co-Chairs

Enrique Alfonseca, Google Research at Zurich
Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Lucia, Specia University of Sheffield
Xavier, Carreras Universitat PolitÚcnica de Catalunya

Publication Chair

Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corporation

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters
Veselin Stoyanov, Facebook
Min Zhang, Soochow University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs

Mona Diab, George Washington University
Irina Matveeva, NexLP - Chicago

Student Scholarship Co-Chairs

Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart

Local Co-Chairs:

Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar

Local Sponsorship Chair:
Francisco Guzman, Qatar Computing Research Institute


Contact ***@emnlp2014.org<mailto:***@emnlp2014.org>

On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Irina Matveeva <***@gmail.com
<mailto:***@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello Ale,

Please, have a look at the draft for the final call for participation. The
only change is that I added the new links you gave me at the beginning, in
the section

* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS

Irina


=============================================================================
EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
October 25–29, 2014 — Doha, Qatar
Final Call for PARTICIPATION
=============================================================================

SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest
group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites
participation to EMNLP 2014, the 19th conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing.

The conference will be held on October 25–29, 2014, in Doha, Qatar. The
conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two
days of workshops and tutorials.

Conference URL: http://www.emnlp2014.org<http://www.emnlp2014.org/>. For
information on Doha and Qatar, and an up-to-date FAQ go to
http://emnlp2014.org/local.html.

Please join us for an exciting conference in Doha, Qatar!
=============================================================================

* NEW INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTERS

We are excited to share with you the latest updates and information for the
participants and presenters:

Conference Program
http://emnlp2014.org/files/program.pdf

Instructions for Presenters
http://emnlp2014.org/presentations.html

Trip Preparation Information
http://emnlp2014.org/beforecoming.html

* IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION

The early registration deadline has been extended to October 5, 2014
Online registration is up and running

We are excited to announce the following news and features of the EMNLP
conference, which you should consider when registering and organizing your
trip to Doha:

* MAIN CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The main conference will take place on October 26-28, 2014.
Check the list of accepted papers at http://emnlp2014.org/papers.html

Additionally, EMNLP 2014 will count on two world-class invited speakers for
the keynote talks:

IBM Cognitive Computing - An NLP Renaissance!
Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Learning from Rational Behavior
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University

More details at: http://emnlp2014.org/invited-talks.html


* TUTORIALS

For the first time, EMNLP 2014 will have tutorials. The following eight
tutorials have been accepted and will be presented during October 25 and
29, 2014:

Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Texts --- Saif M. Mohammad and
Xiaodan Zhu

Spectral Learning Techniques for Weighted Automata, Transducers, and
Grammars --- Borja Balle, Ariadna Quattoni and Xavier Carreras



Semantic Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammars --- Yoav Artzi,
Nicholas FitzGerald and Luke Zettlemoyer



Linear Programming Decoders in Natural Language Processing: From Integer
Programming to Message Passing and Dual Decomposition --- André F. T.
Martins

Syntax-Based Statistical Machine Translation --- Philip Williams and
Philipp Koehn

Embedding Methods for Natural Language Processing --- Antoine Bordes and
Jason Weston



Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects --- Mona Diab and
Nizar Habash



Text Quantification --- Fabrizio Sebastiani

See http://emnlp2014.org/tutorials.html for more details.


* WORKSHOPS

EMNLP 2014 will host the following 6 one-day workshops, which will take
place during October 25 and 29, 2014:

Arabic NLP — Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop --- Nizar
Habash, Stephan Vogel, Kareem Darwish, Behrang Mohit, Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi
Zaghouani

TextGraphs-9 — Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing ---
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, Amarnag Subramanya, Gabor Melli, Irina Matveeva

CodeSwitch — Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching ---
Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Julia Hirschberg, Thamar Solorio

SSST-8 — Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in
Statistical Translation --- Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras, Eva
Maria Vecchi

MOOC — Modeling Large Scale Social Interaction in Massively Open Online
Courses --- Carolyn Penstein Rosé, George Siemens

LT4CloseLang — Language Technology for Closely-Related Languages and
Language Variants --- Preslav Nakov, Petya Osenova, Cristina Vertan

See http://emnlp2014.org/workshops.html for more details.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if registered for 5 days, participants will be free to
attend any tutorials and workshops during the two days (October 25 and 29),
allowing as many changes as desired.


* REGISTRATION

Registration is already available on-line:

http://emnlp2014.org/register.html

Please, note that early registration fees will apply until October 5, 2014.

Important features:

# EMNLP 2014 offers a flat rate to attend any workshops and tutorials
# Lunch, breakfast and coffee breaks are included every day

To check on the requirements and procedures for visas, conference hotels at
special rates, and general and touristic information about the venue and
Qatar, please visit the conference website: http://emnlp2014.org<
http://emnlp2014.org/>


* Organizing EMNLP 2014

General Chair

Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Program Co-Chairs

Bo Pang, Google
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp

Workshops Co-Chairs

Enrique Alfonseca, Google Research at Zurich
Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

Tutorial Co-Chairs

Lucia, Specia University of Sheffield
Xavier, Carreras Universitat PolitÚcnica de Catalunya

Publication Chair

Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corporation

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters
Veselin Stoyanov, Facebook
Min Zhang, Soochow University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs

Mona Diab, George Washington University
Irina Matveeva, NexLP - Chicago

Student Scholarship Co-Chairs

Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart

Local Co-Chairs:

Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar

Contact

***@emnlp2014.org<mailto:***@emnlp2014.org>

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