ACL-2000 TUTORIALS (John Carroll & Hemant Darbari)
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John Carroll & Hemant Darbari
ACL 2000 Tutorials Co-Chairs

We scheduled the ACL 2000 tutorials, as is customary, to take place over
the course of a morning and afternoon just before the start of the main
conference. The formal opening of the conference this year is October
2nd in the late afternoon/early evening, so to avoid any tutorials
overlapping the opening, we set up the sessions for the afternoon of
October 1st and the morning of October 2nd. We anticipated having two
tutorials running in parallel in each session, making a total of four.
Reimbursement for presenters was set at the same level as last year
(US$500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15
per registrant in excess of 50).
 
The call for tutorial proposals was sent out to email distribution lists
in late March. We received six proposals, of which we selected four as being
relevant to the ACL membership, of good quality, coming from respected
researchers in the CL community, and representing a good spread of
topics. The accepted tutorials are:

Morphology for Asian Languages
  Kenneth Church (chair); speakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan

Unification-based Processing Underway to Dot Com
  Dan Flickinger & Stephan Oepen

Statistical Machine Translation
  Kevin Knight

Multilingual Information Access
  Douglas W. Oard

The Multilingual Information Access proposal was initiated by Kam-Fai
Wong, chair of IRAL-2000 (the 5th International Workshop on
Information Retrieval with Asian Languages) to be held in Hong Kong
immediately before ACL, with the intention that this tutorial should be
shared between the ACL and IRAL events. We welcomed this suggestion; ACL
is organizing the tutorial, but IRAL participants may register for it
with IRAL on the same terms as ACL participants. Proceeds after speaker
reimbursement and expenses are to be shared between the two
organizations in proportion to the respective numbers of registrations.

The tutorials are to take place at the Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology. Brief tutorial descriptions are online at the ACL 2000 web
site, were incorporated into the conference registration brochure, and
are published in the conference proceedings companion volume and CDROM.
The scale of fees for tutorial registration remains unchanged from 1999,
at US$130 full, $85 student, or $165/$95 for late registration. Each
tutorial participant will receive a printed copy of the materials,
containing at least the overhead transparencies used.