NAACL HLT 2012 Program Overview

Please see Venue for a map of the locations.

Sunday, June 3 – Tutorials

7am-6pm	Registration
Morning (9am-12:30pm)	T1: 100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Linguistics But Were Afraid to Ask*	T2: Structured Sparsity in Natural Language Processing: Models, Algorithms and Applications	T3: Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial	T4: Natural Language Processing in Watson
Afternoon (2pm-5:30pm)	T5: Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models	T6: Processing modality and negation	T7: On-Demand Distributional Semantic Distance and Paraphrasing	T8: Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming in NLP

6:00-9:00

Welcome reception

7:30-5:00	Registration
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcoming remarks
9:15-10:30	Keynote: Eduard Hovy -- "A New Semantics: Merging Propositional and Distributional Information"
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Discourse, Dialog, and Pragmatics I	Machine Translation I	Information Extraction
12:30-1:15	Student lunch sponsored by IBM and the Student Research Workshop (students only)
1:15-2:15	SRW Panel: Reviewing Practices (open to all)
2:30-4:00	Spoken Language Processing	Machine Learning I	Language Resources and Evaluations
4:00-4:30	Coffee Break
4:30-5:30	Posters & Demos: One-Minute Madness (poster and demo descriptions)
6:00-9:00	Poster and Demo Session (with Buffet Dinner)

7:30-5:00	Registration
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:30	Best Paper Awards Session
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Phonology and Morphology	Machine Translation II	Semantics I	Syntax and Parsing
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:30	NLP Idol: Plucked from Obscurity
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-5:20	Short papers: Discourse	Short papers: MT	Short papers: Document Categorization and Topic Modeling	Short papers: Syntax
7:00	Banquet at Le Windsor Ballroom

7:30-5:00	Registration
7:30-9:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:15	Keynote: James W. Pennebaker -- "A, is, I, and, the: How our smallest words reveal the most about who we Are"
10:15-10:40	Coffee Break
10:40-12:00	Short papers: Sentiment and Social Media	Short papers: Semantics	Short papers: Summarization
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	NAACL Business Meeting (open to all)
2:10-3:40	Sentiment and Social Media	Machine Learning II	Discourse, Dialog, and Pragmatics II
3:40-4:10	Coffee Break
4:10-5:10	Summarization	Semantics II	Document Categorization and Topic Modeling

W-1: Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX) (Day 1)

W-3: Statistical Machine Translation (Day 1)

W-4: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics

W-5: Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community

W-6: Induction of Linguistic Structure

W-7: Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

W-8: Language in Social Media

W-9: Predicting and improving text readability

W-10: Twelfth Meeting of the ACL-SIGMORPHON Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

W-1: Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX) (Day 2)

W-2: Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

W-3: Statistical Machine Translation (Day 2)

W-11: BioNLP

W-12: Computational Linguistics for Literature

W-13: Evaluation metrics and system comparison for automatic summarization

W-14: Future of Language Modeling for HLT

W-15: Semantic Interpretation in an Actionable Context

W-16: Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language

Please see Venue for a map of the locations.