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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. Submissions/Acceptance (2)
By Continent
Submitted
Accepted

6. Submissions/Acceptance (2)
By Continent

7. Submissions/Acceptance (3)
By Country

8. Submissions/Acceptance (4)
By Area

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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