EMNLP 2015 – Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Date: September 17 – 21, 2015
Location: Culturgest, Lisbon
url: http://www.emnlp2015.org/
Online registration is open until September 11, 2015
Students may apply for attendance grants until August 26 th 2015 here.
The 20 th edition of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015) is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL – SIGDAT), a special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP. It is one of the main forums in which the scientists in the language technologies area disseminate their cutting-edge research work.
The local organization team includes not only staff from Instituto Superior Técnico, but also representatives from its spin-off community (Priberam and Unbabel), and its research institutes (INESC-ID and IT). In fact, one of the two local Chairs is André Martins, who was the first dual degree student of the Portugal Carnegie Mellon program in Language Technologies.
This event is part of a series of conferences on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, established as one of the main forums in which the scientists in the language technologies area disseminate their cutting-edge research work.
The program schedule includes invited talks by some of the world’s best known researchers in the area: Yoshua Bengio, who will talk about neural language models, and the recent impressive results on machine translation and on mapping an image to a sentence, and Justin Grimmer, who will discuss how elected officials and constituents communicate, and show how representation style affects American politics.
The first two days of the conference will be devoted to 7 parallel workshops and 8 tutorials. The list of tutorials also highlights the growing impact of this type of data driven approaches on topics such as personality analytics, semantic similarity, information extraction, knowledge acquisition from the web, social media text analysis, learning semantics from text, multiword expressions, and affect and emotion.
