ACL-IJCNLP-09 General Chair Report

Keh-Yih Su

August 2nd, Singapore

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Team Members Local Organizer:

Li, Haizhou (I2R, Singapore)

Program Chairs: Wiebe, Jan (University of Pittsburgh , USA)

Su, Jian (I2R, Singapore)

Other Chairs: Please see the Conference Handbook

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Program Structure

Tutorials: 3 rooms (total 6 half-day tutorial)

Main Conference: 4 parallel tracks

Workshops (12, excluding EMNLP)

2 two-day, 10 one-day First Day: 8 rooms Second Day: 6 rooms

EMNLP: 4 parallel tracks

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Related Statistics (1) Total 925 submissions (record high!!):

569 submissions for full papers (99 + #ACL-08), 120 of them are accepted (21%)

356 submissions for short papers (81 + #ACL-08), 93 of them are accepted (26%)

Some other reference numbers: Coling-ACL 2006 has 618 submissions (no short papers ca

tegory) ACL-2007 has 588 submissions (no short papers category) ACL 2008 has 470 full papers 275 short papers

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Related Statistics (2) Student Workshop (Brian and Grace)

25 submissions, 12 of them are accepted (48%)

Demo (Gary and Sabine) 23 submissions, 11 of them are accepted (48%)

Tutorial (Diana and Chengqing) 19 proposals received, 6 of them are accepted (30

%)

Workshop (Jimmy and Yuji) 18 Top-1 preference for us, 12 of them are accepte

d (67%)

Mentoring Service (Hwee-Tou and Florence) 10 full papers and 2 short papers

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Related Statistics (3) Sponsorship (Hitoshi and Kim-Teng)

Total US$25,456.24 Gold (1), Silver (4), Bronze (1), Supporter (1) Student Best Paper Award (IBM)

Local Sponsorship Entertainment in welcome reception and banquet Conference souvenirs (Special Singapore stamps) Asian student travel grants 30 paid registrations for staff/students

Exhibition (Timothy and Philipp) Total US$3,500. 2 Publishers, 3 Companies, 2 Local Organizations

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Summary Sponsorship and Exhibition under expectation

Contribution mainly from traditional USA ACL sponsors (thanks Priscilla!)

Possible Reasons Bad global economic situation

Lacking connections? Late movement?

Paper submissions and registrations beyond expectation

925 submissions, 792 pre-registration!