The D&I Committee at NAACL 2021 strived to increase participation by providing subsidies which could help offset financial burdens to contribute towards reducing financial burdens on participants. Following in the footsteps of previous D&I
Congratulations to the recipients of the Best Demo Award at NAACL 2021! COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Xuan Wang, Nikolaus Parulian, Guangxing Han, Jiawei Ma…
Congratulations to the recipients of the Best Industry Paper Award at NAACL 2021 Industry Track! Query2Prod2Vec: Grounded Word Embeddings for eCommerceFederico Bianchi, Jacopo Tagliabue, Bingqing Yu The paper will be presented on Wed June 9…
Name: Careers in NLP, a panel in the Industry Track of NAACL HLT 2021 Time: Tuesday June 8 at 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT. The questions are based on the survey results from this form. Additional questions will be taken from the audience if time permi…
Slides (PDF): Takeaways from Ethics Review by Program Co-Chairs The process followed for the NAACL 2021 ethics review was outlined by the Ethics Chairs in an earlier post. Comments from the ethics reviewers and track chairs were reviewed by…
For the review process at NAACL-HLT 2021, we largely adopted the best practices of other recent virtual conferences, while modifying the format somewhat to treat all papers equally, as described in more detail below. Our paper review proces…
Name: Startups in NLP, a panel in the Industry Track of NAACL HLT 2021 Time: Monday June 7 at 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT. Questions will be taken from the audience Alon Lavie is the VP of Language Technologies at Unbabel, a leading translation techno…
Congratulations to the recipients of the best paper awards at NAACL 2021! We awarded best long paper, best short paper, and best thematic paper awards, as well as outstanding paper awards for both short and long papers. These papers will be…
Goals: The NAACL 2021 Diversity & Inclusion committee has taken on the responsibility for organizing mentoring at the conference. Our goal is that people with less experience can get advice from community members with more experience. The f…
The NAACL 2021 conference is fast approaching, and we wanted to give you a quick overview of the conference format and schedule. NAACL 2021 will be held as a completely virtual conference, in response to the restrictions imposed by the COVI…
We are organizing virtual Mexican cultural events at NAACL 2021, courtesy of Rocío Cerbón. The details are as follows: Join us on a guided virtual tour to the best places to visit, what to do and eat in Mexico’s capital city. We will go ove…
The purpose of the diversity and inclusion panel is to bring together representatives from different affinity groups to discuss how NLP conferences can be made more accessible and welcoming. It is also to raise awareness for these issues wi…