The Conference from the Backstage Anna Corazza

Simonetta Montemagni Giovanni Semeraro

CLiC-it 2016 Conference Chairs

December 5-6, Naples

Submissions & Review Process

December 5-6, Naples

Program Committees

• Area Chairs

13 areas, 30 chairs (10 Areas in 2014 and 2015)

• PC members

152 members

• Total number of reviews completed

206 (171 in 2015, 222 in 2014)

• BIG thank you to all Area Chairs & PC members!

Review Process

• Total number of submissions: 69 212 authors, 14 countries

• Every submission assigned by Area Chairs to at least 2 PC member(s)

• Discussion of papers among Area Chairs and PC members

• PC Chairs decided based on scores and reviews as well as the outcomes of the discussions with reviewers

Review Process

• Accepted

28 papers for oral presentation

27 papers for poster presentation

• Global acceptance rate

79.7%

Acceptance Statistics

• Acceptance ratio -1.5% 2016 vs. 2015

+2.4% 2016 vs. 2014

In line with the “inclusive” spirit of the conference

Year Papers

2014 Pisa 75/97 (77.3%)

2015 Trento 52/64 (81.2%)

2016 Naples 55/69 (79.7%)

CLiC-it 2016: 13 thematic areas

• Novelties – 2 new transversal tracks (12%)

• Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP

• Machine Learning for CL and NLP

– Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics (8%)

• Continuation of 2015 and 2014 thematic areas – Linguistic Resources, the most attracting track (32%)

– The remaining 48% submissions distributed on the other tracks

• reduction of submissions in these areas wrt 2014 (69%) and 2015 (75%)

• co-location of the conference with the EVALITA final Workshop

– NLP for Web and Social Media - SENTIPOLC

– Morphology and Syntax Processing - PoSTWITA

CLIC-it 2016: Authors’ keywords Accepted Papers

QUI la TAG CLOUD generata dalle KEYWORDS fornite dagli autori

CLIC-it vs EVALITA 2016: Authors’ keywords

CLiC-it 2016 Awards –– YOUNG BEST PAPERYOUNG BEST PAPER –– 5 YOUNG DISTINGUISHED 5 YOUNG DISTINGUISHED PAPERsPAPERs

BPA Candidate Papers (11) – submitted by a single Master/PhD student or postDoc, with or without

his/her supervisor among the authors – submitted by 2 or more Master/PhD students or postDocs – received an average review score higher than 2

Selection criteria – Originality and innovativity – In case of a tie, the award will be assigned to the paper with the

youngest author

BPA Jury – CLiC-it Program Chairs – AILC executive Board (Direttivo)

Candidates for Young Authors Best Paper Awards

• The young author(s) of awarded papers will be entitled to – A signed and stamped official award certificateofficial award certificate

– The announcement of their achievement on the conference website on the conference website

– Submit an extended and revised version for publication publication in the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL)

– A one year free membership to AILC free membership to AILC (2017/2018) (only for the Young Authors of ALL awarded papers)

–– Free Registration to the Free Registration to the CLiCCLiC--it 2017 it 2017 Conference (only for the Young Authors of the BEST paper)

• Awards will be announced and bestowed on Tuesday December 6th in a dedicated conference session – Don’t miss it!

Young Authors Best Paper Awards

available as “openopen accessaccess” publication

on different online platforms

CLiC-it 2016 ProceedingsProceedings

CLiC–it & EVALITA 2016 Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1749

http://www.aaccademia.it/ Sezione Linguistica

http://books.openedition.org/

Schedule

Tuesday Dec 6, 11.15-12:15 Moderator: Bernardo Magnini

Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh

What’s this movie about? Automatic Content Analysis and Summarization

Monday Dec 5, 11.00-12:00 Moderator: Cristina Bosco

Joakim Nivre Uppsala University

Reflections on Universal Dependencies

Keynotes

Panels

Tuesday Dec 6, 9.50-10:45 Moderators: Roberto Basili, Andrea Bolioli

Tuesday Dec 6, 15.00-16:00 Moderator: Felice Dell’Orletta

Language Technologies at the crossroad of industrial, social & cultural innovation dynamics

European Ecosystem of Computational Linguistics (E2CL)

Panelists Walter Daelemans (CLIF, CLIN, ACL) Bernardo Magnini (AILC) Joakim Nivre (NEALT, ACL) Patrick Paroubek (ATALA)

Panelists Pierpaolo Basile (QuestionCube & UNIBA) Paolo Ongaro (META) Paolo Turriziani (InteractiveMedia) Valentina Cotecchia (NTT)

Open discussion with Giorgio Robino (Conversational computing) Massimo Vincenzi (Expert System)

Technical Sessions • Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP +

Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications (Mon Dec 5 h.9:30, chair: Vito Pirrelli)

• Machine Learning for CL and NLP + Information Retrieval and Question Answering + Information Extraction, Entity Linking and (Linked) Open Data + Machine Learning for CL and NLP (Mon Dec 5 h.12:00, chair: Roberto Pirrone)

• Linguistic Resources (Mon Dec 5 h.15:00, chair: Fabio Tamburini)

• Pragmatics, Creativity and Linguistic Games + Semantics and Knowledge Acquisition + NLP for Digital Humanities (Tue Dec 6 h.9:00, chair: Marco Passarotti)

• Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics (Tue Dec 6 h.12:15, chair: Alessandro Lenci)

• Spoken language processing and understanding + NLP for Web and Social Media + Morphology and Syntax Processing (Tue Dec 6 h.17:30 , chair: Alessandro Mazzei)

Oral presentations

• Subdivided into

• LONG (15 minutes)

– 11 presentations representative of the different areas (or clusters of areas)

• REGULAR (10 minutes)

Posters

• Poster Session 1 Mon Dec 5th, at 16:05

• Poster Session 2 Tue Dec 6th , at 16:05

• Poster Area Main Hall

Young Authors Best Paper Awards • Nomination Ceremony on Tuesday December

6th at 15:55 after the Panel E2CL

• Agenda

– President Report

– New AILC web site

– Editorial activities

– Next initiatiatives and conferences

AILCAILC GeneralGeneral AssemblyAssembly

Mon Dec 5th h. 5:30 pm

Social Dinner Mon Dec 5 h.8:30pm

Ristorante Alma Alma FlegreaFlegrea at Città della Scienza Track of Blues concert after the dinner Please, communicate asap allergies/intolerances/food requirements to the organizers Meeting point at Piazza Bovio at 7:30 pm (very close to the conference site) Buses available for the transfers to and from the restaurant Return by midnight

Endorsements

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ThanksThanks to

Local organizing committee: Anna Corazza

Franco Cutugno Francesco Isgrò Andrea Apicella Dario Di Mauro

Fabrizio Esposito Antonio Origlia

Valentina Schettino Giuseppe Vettigli

Thank you for attending CLiC-it 2016

ENJOY THE CONFERENCE !