Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions - ACL '05

Abstract

The ACL 2005 Interactive Poster and Demonstration session took place on Sunday, June 26, 2005 in Ann Arbor Michigan, on the first day of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. There were 56 submissions to this event, of which 31 were selected for presentation, resulting in a 55% acceptance rate.Our goal this year was to have a program made up of implemented systems that reflect previously unpublished work (Interactive Posters) or previously published but subsequently improved existing systems (Demonstrations). Thus, while we maintained a fairly traditional definition of Demonstration, we introduced an experimental sense of Interactive Poster that required that they present novel and previously unpublished ideas and that they be supported by an implemented system.Thus, the criteria for acceptance of an Interactive Poster was the novel scientific contributions of the work, and the effectiveness of the implemented system and (optional) more traditional poster in making those points. There were 37 Interactive Posters submitted, of which 18 were accepted.Demonstrations were expected to highlight mature systems or prototypes that show how NLP technologies are used to solve practically important problems. The criteria for acceptance of a Demonstration was that it must already be described in the published literature in sufficient detail to allow replication, or the published paper should provide this level of detail. In addition, the Demonstration should address an application of broad interest in such a way that it can be appreciated by the diverse audience that attends ACL. There were 19 Demonstrations submitted, of which 13 were accepted.