Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Message from the Program ChairsIt's hard to believe that we're actually going to be seeing the program come together in Toronto.We're really looking forward to it and to seeing you all there!Most of the work of a program chair is behind the scenes: herding reviewers and chairs, wrangling data from various sources, and answering lots and lots of email.This is a volunteer position, so the only reward we get for this is our chance to make the process of submitting and reviewing papers to our conference better.This letter will outline some of those experiments.First, we asked reviewers for two scores: soundness and excitement.Our goal was that any sound paper would be accepted to some ACL affiliated venue, but…

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