System Demonstrations
Call for System Demonstrations
The ACL 2019 System Demonstration Program Committee invites demo proposals.
Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed on the main conference
website. Accepted submissions will be published in a companion volume of the ACL 2019 conference proceedings.
This call encourages open-source systems. Commercial sales and marketing activities are NOT appropriate and won’t be accepted in the demo program.
Best Demo Award
This year we will provide a Best Demo Award. We hope to encourage researchers to make their code publicly available and in the form of an easy-to-use, runnable system.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: April 11th, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: May 17th, 2019
- Camera-ready submission: June 10th, 2019
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
Demo Details
Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to computational linguistics.
Pointers to web sites running a demo preview will also be helpful. For non web-based demos, it is possible to submit a short (~2 minute) screencast video demonstrating the system. This screencast will be used to evaluate the paper, but won’t be published unless requested. We encourage the authors to include visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams) in the paper. However, there will be place on the START website to upload additional material, if needed. If you choose to submit a screencast, please upload the video to some hosting site (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) and include the link in your submission.
Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please specify desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory capacity, operating system and other software needed in order to run the demo.
Demo Submission
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at https://www.softconf.com/acl2019/demos.
Style files should meet the requirements of the ACL main conference. Submissions may consist of up to 6 pages (including references). Submissions must conform to the ACL 2019 official style guidelines and they must be in PDF format. The submissions have to be original work (unpublished), as the publication in ACL will be archival.
Reviewing Policy
Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed.
Demo co-chairs
Marta R. Costa-jussà - Technical University of Catalonia
Enrique Alfonseca - Google