Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

Welcome to EMNLP 2020!Due to the unprecedented situation with the Covid-19 pandemic, EMNLP 2020 will be held completely online this year.We decided to move EMNLP to a virtual format early on, when the pandemic just started, and postponed the paper submission deadlines by three weeks such that authors affected by the pandemic could have more time for their paper submissions.This resulted in a much tighter schedule for paper review and decisions, as well as publications, workshop programs, virtual infrastructure, etc.However, thanks to everyone's hard work, we made it.We received a record number of 3,677 submissions.This is a significant increase of 26% over EMNLP 2019, making it the largest NLP conference to…