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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">CALL FOR PROPOSALS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">First Joint Call for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshops</span> Proposals: NAACL 2015 & ACL 2015 & EMNLP 2015</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) invite proposals for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> to be held in conjunction with NAACL 2015, ACL 2015, or EMNLP 2015. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshops</span> will be held at one of the following conference venues:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">NAACL 2015 is the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). It will be held in Denver, Colorado May 31 - June 5. The NAACL <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> will be held on June 4-5. The webpage for NAACL 2015 is: </span><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#1155cc" face="Arial, sans-serif"><u><a href="http://naacl.org/naacl2015">http://naacl.org/naacl2015</a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">.</font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ACL 2015 is the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. It will be held in Beijing, China, August 15-20, 2015. The dates for the ACL <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> will be August 20-21: <a href="http://acl2015.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:none">http://acl2015.org/</span></a>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">EMNLP 2015 is the SIGDAT conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). It started in 1993 with the series of<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshops</span> on Very Large Corpora and was renamed EMNLP in 1996. The main conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015. The dates for the EMNLP <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> are still not definitive, most likely they will be September 17 and September 21.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Proposals for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> should contain:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> topic and content.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2. The desired <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> length (one or two days) and an estimate of the number of attendees.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4. A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Program Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span>) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 2 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. Submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7. A note specifying which venue(s) (NAACL/ACL/EMNLP) would be acceptable and/or preferable.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> co-chairs will review the quality of the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> proposals. Once the reviews are complete, the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> co-chairs will work together to assign <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span> to the three conferences, taking into account the location preferences and constraints provided by the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> proposers.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The ACL has a set of policies on <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-conf-financial-policy.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ACL</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">/</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">Workshops</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">/<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">workshop</span>-conf-financial-policy.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">and the financial policy for SIG </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">workshops</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> at</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshops-Sig-financial-policy.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ACL</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">/</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">Workshops</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">/</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshops</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">-Sig-financial-policy.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Proposals may be submitted as Plain text, MS Word, or PDF documents (preferably PDF). Proposals should be attached and emailed to the<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> organizers (<a href="mailto:naacl.acl.emnlp.w15@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">naacl.acl.emnlp.w15@gmail.com</span></a>) no later than 18 October 2014, Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). You should receive a confirmation of proposal receipt within 24 hours. If you do not, please get in touch with Sebastian Riedel:<a href="mailto:s.riedel@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">s.riedel@ucl.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span>, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> from the CD-ROM/USB & unified author indexes.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> organizers cannot accept for publication papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timescales for the submission and reviewing of <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">workshop</span> papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timescales for each of the conferences are given below. <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">TIMELINES FOR 2015 <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">WORKSHOPS</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SHARED DATES</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">18 October 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2 November 2014: Notifications of Acceptance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">NAACL 2015</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">20 November 2014: First Call for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Papers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">20 December 2014: Second Call for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Papers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">25 February 2015: <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Paper Due Date</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">20 March 2015: Notification of Acceptance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">30 March 2015: Camera-ready papers due</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4-5 June 2015: <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Dates</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ACL 2015</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">18 January 2015: First Call for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Papers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">21 May 2015: <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Paper Due Date (*suggested to ensure at least a 3-week review period)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">11 June 2015: Notification of Acceptance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">28 June 2015: Camera-ready papers due (tentative)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">20 - 21 August 2015: <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Dates</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">EMNLP 2015</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">April 2015: First Call for <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Papers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">June 2015: <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Paper Due Date</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">July 2015: Notification of Acceptance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">August 2015: Camera-ready papers due</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">17 and 21 September 2015: <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Workshop</span> Dates</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">WORKSHOP</span> CO-CHAIRS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cornelia Caragea, NAACL; University of North Texas</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Bing</span> Liu, NAACL; University of Illinois at Chicago</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hang Li, ACL; Huawei Technologies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sebastian Riedel, ACL; University College London</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jörg Tiedemann, EMNLP; Uppsala University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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