Conference Program

Sunday: Tutorials

Morning tutorials: 9:00-12:30 (coffee break 10:30-11:00)
Afternoon tutorials: 14:00-17:30 (coffee break 15:30-16:00)

Welcome reception (18-21h) in the inner courtyard of the conference venue (Unter den Linden 6)

Monday--Wednesday: Main Conference

Important: All plenary sessions, invited talks, and the ACL business meeting will be held in Audimax and Kinosaal simultaneously. People attending the sessions in the Kinosaal have the opportunity to walk upstairs to the Audimax (10-20 seconds) and place questions to the speakers. The Kinosaal is one floor below the Audimax, on the ground floor, and it is accessible through the Audimax and the courtyard.

Thursday--Friday: Workshops

 

Monday, August 8

Full program 

7:45-17:30 Registration (Audimax)
7:45-17:30 Sponsor Exhibition (Senatsaal)
8:45-9:00 Opening Session (Audimax + Kinosaal)
9:00-10:10 Invited talk I: Amber Boydstun (Audimax + Kinosaal)
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Session 1A: Semantic Parsing I
Audimax		 Session 1B: Information Extraction
Kinosaal		 Session 1C: Machine Translation I
2002		 Session 1D: Word Meaning I
3038		 Session 1E: Parsing I
2094		 Session 1F: Noncompositionality
2091		  
12:00-13:40 Lunch Break
13:40-15:00 Session 2A: Word Vectors I
Audimax		 Session 2B: Events and Schemas
Kinosaal		 Session 2C: Sentiment Analysis
2002		 Session 2D: Parsing II
3038		 Session 2E: Information Retrieval
2094		 Session 2F: Phonoly and Morphology
2091		  
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:10 Session 3A: Question Answering I
Audimax		 Session 3B: Sentence Vectors
Kinosaal		 Session 3C: Parsing III
2002		 Session 3D: Dialog
3038		 Session 3E: Generation
2094		 Session 3F: Entities and Coreference
2091		 Session 3G: Topics
2097
18:00-21:00 Poster Session I, Demo Session A, Student Research Workshop, and Dinner (Maritim Hotel)

 

Tuesday, August 9

Full program 

8:30-17:30 Registration (Audimax)
8:30-17:30 Sponsor Exhibition (Senatsaal)
9:00-10:10 Invited talk II: Mark Steedman (Audimax + Kinosaal)
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Session 4A: Relations and Knowledge Bases
Audimax		 Session 4B: Semantic Parsing II
Kinosaal		 Session 4C: Word Meaning II
2002		 Session 4D: Tasks and Datasets
3038		 Session 4E: Parsing IV
2094		 Session 4F: Document Analysis
2091		  
12:00-13:40 Lunch Break
13:40-15:00 Session 5A: Deep Learning (short)
Audimax		 Session 5B: Semantics and Generation (short)
Kinosaal		 Session 5C: Machine Translation II (short)
2002		 Session 5D: Text Classification (short)
3038		 Session 5E: Potpourri I (short)
2094		    
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:10 Session 6A: Machine Learning
Audimax		 Session 6B: Word Vectors II
Kinosaal		 Session 6C: Machine Translation III
2002		 Session 6D: Discourse
3038		 Session 6E: Language and Vision
2094		 Session 6F: Summarization
2091		 Session 6G: Learner Language
2097
17:30-19:00 Poster Session II, Demo Session B, and Dinner (Maritim Hotel)
19:00-23:00 Boat Cruise

 

Wednesday, August 10

Full program 

8:30-17:30 Registration (Audimax)
8:30-17:30 Sponsor Exhibition (Senatsaal)
9:00-09:40 ACL President's Talk (Audimax + Kinosaal)
9:40-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:50 Session 7A: Outstanding Papers I
Audimax		 Session 7B: Outstanding Papers II
Kinosaal		      
11:50-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 ACL Business Meeting (open to all)
Audimax
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 8A: Question Answering II (short)
Audimax		 Session 8B: Word Vectors III (short)
Kinosaal		 Session 8C: Topics and Discourse (short)
2002		 Session 8D: Syntax and Morphology (short)
3038		 Session 8E: Potpourri II (short)
2094
17:00-19:00 Awards and Closing Session (Audimax + Kinosaal)