Hello CompSci geeks I need your help!
For some political reasons I am unable to publish in the ACL (boring you don't want to hear it). I was wondering if you could recommend: which is better COLING or CoNLL? I know one is much more specific but maybe there is some prestige issue as well.
In addition, journals you recommend? I know that most CompLing stuff is in conferences but there are some journals as well so do tell me.
Thanks!
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Are you serious? Why can't you come to ACL? Not boring AT ALL!!! I want to know! Does that apply to all ACL supported and endorsed conferences? What about EMNLP and HLT, LREC, NAACL? EACL?
COLING is the second BIG international CL conference after ACL, I think it's older than ACL and it has a much more theoretical approach compared to ACL. I don't know anything about CoNLL, but isn't it a US conference, so less international (bad?) and maybe more applied (probably good for you?)?
There are heaps of CL conferences for all the different subfields. I don't really know what you'd fall into. Here are two websites that kind of keep track of the calls that go out:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/conferences.html
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/filt/events/conferences/2004/threads.html
(the second is what goes out on the ACL mailing list)
Other than that, get on the mailing list of an ACL Sig that is related to your field and most relevant conferences should get announced there.
There are some other mailing lists, but I've unsubscribed from all of them except ACL and ACL-SIGGEN (my Sig) because I got sick of them. Most people are on the corpora list, but that's very linguisticy.
Journals: Computational Linguistics obviously - but that's the ACL journal, so I guess that's out (BUT WHY?????), Journal of Language Engineering, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology is our first online and open-access journal: http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LiLT/index.html
Research in Language and Computation, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, Traitement Automatique des Langues is mixed English and French (I've got a paper coming up in there hopefully soon) and I think it's also open access, definitely online.
Hm, that's my brain dump on the issue. Tell me WHY OH WHY can't you publish at ACL (apart from their crazily low acceptance rate)??
There are tier ratings of conferences, I'm not sure if that's only for Australia. I can try to find out if you really want me to.
But in the end, I think the best conference is the one that accepts your paper. I know of course your papers are outstanding and ingenious, but acceptance rates at some conferences are pretty shitty, I've seen brilliant people with great ideas get knocked back again and again because their paper wasn't written well enough or the reviewers had a bad day.
WOW! saw this just now will read carfully
Thanks a million!
Wow!!!!!
This was so helpful, you can't imagine. Thanks you so much!!!! I love how you are fanatic about everything.
Not all ACL events are out, just this ACL 2008...
I am writing a paper and looked for deadlines that seem interesting and saw COLING and CONLL which seem to converge with my interests. It isn't a US conference it's actually in Manchester and is an ACL conference on language learning.
The sites you gave me I already know, but thanks! I signed up for a few sigs and we will see what goes on there.
COLING deadline is in a month and I am not sure I will make it, and was wondering whether to make the effort or submit to CoNLL
Regarding journals - the online one looks cool! is it new? I didn't see any links to past issues.
I understood that people prefer publishing in confs and not in journals since it takes ages until sth gets published in a journal. It sounds kind of weird doesn't it? If you know some site that rates journals and confs it would be great. I actually think that journals are much better than confs since reviewing is much more objective and thorough, but this is just another weird quirk of the NLP community I guess.
About my plans - I am teaching May June July so if I take some leave for a conf I need a good reason (and I am probably already going to Washington in June). Do you think the LREC is worth it other of course than meeting you and being in a cool place?
And again - thank you so much I am so out of the loop and this was really really helpful. You are the best!!!
kisses.
:)
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