Report from Program Chairs Avignon, April 26, 2012 EACL 2012 Report from Program Chairs Avignon, April 26, 2012

Committees (1) General chair Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Program co-chairs Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK) Lluís Màrquez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) 14 Areas and 28 Area Chairs Afra Alishahi, Phil Blunsom, Xavier Carreras, Maarten de Rijke, Katja Filippova, Pascale Fung, Kallirroi Georgila, Julio Gonzalo, Mikel L. Forcada, Sharon Goldwater, John Hale, Min-Yen Kan, Alexander Koller, Lori Levin, Bing Liu, David McClosky, Christof Monz, Sebastian Padó, Patrick Pantel, Sebastian Riedel, Kenji Sagae, Michael Strube, Charles Sutton, Hiroya Takamura, Ivan Titov, Piek Vossen, Richard Wicentowski and Theresa Wilson Board of 471 PC Members (reviewers) Listed in the proceedings

Committees (2) System Demonstration Chair Frédérique Segond (The Viseo Group R&D) Student Workshop Chairs Pierre Lison (University of Oslo, Norway) Mattias Nilsson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Marta Recasens (University of Barcelona, Spain) Adrià de Gispert (University of Cambridge, UK) Fabrice Lefèvre (University of Avignon, France) Mentoring service Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University, Germany) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Submissions/Acceptance (1) 316 valid submissions 2nd largest number in EACL history 83 accepted papers (acceptance rate = 26.3%) 49 oral (15.5%) 34 posters (11.8%) The Program also contains 28 demos 9 student papers

Submissions/Acceptance (2) By Continent Submitted Accepted

Submissions/Acceptance (2) By Continent

Submissions/Acceptance (3) By Country

Submissions/Acceptance (4) By Area

Invited Talks Regina Barzilay - MIT Learning to Behave by Reading Martin Cooke - Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) Speech Communication in the Wild Raymond Mooney - University of Texas at Austin Learning Language from Perceptual Context

Novelties (w.r.t. EACL 2009) Author response period Optional supplementary material (e.g., code, data sets, and resources) Double blind reviewing system (the identity of the authors was not revealed to the area chairs) EACL 2012 Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award Area Chairs recommended best papers in their areas Program Chairs made a first pre-selection of three papers The finalists were considered by an external 3-people committee, chaired by Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge), to decide the best paper of EACL 2012: Spectral Learning for Non-Deterministic Dependency Parsing Franco M. Luque,  Ariadna Quattoni,  Borja Balle,  and Xavier Carreras The three finalist papers are presented in plenary sessions Google sponsored a monetary prize for the award

Thank you! Authors for submitting papers Area chairs and PC members for reviewing papers Regina Barzilay, Martin Cooke, Raymond Mooney for giving invited talks Stephen Clark and his committee for selecting best paper Adrià de Gispert, Fabrice Lefèvre for compiling proceedings Rich Gerber and his team for helping with the START system Marc El-Beze and his team for coordinating on local organizational issues Pierre Lison, Mattias Nilsson, Marta Recasens for organizing the SRW Frédérique Segond for organizing the System Demos program NAACL and ACL chairs for their smooth collaboration Walter Daelemans for his his guidance and support Session chairs and all attendees to EACL 2012

Report from Program Chairs Avignon, April 26, 2012 EACL 2012 Report from Program Chairs Avignon, April 26, 2012