Preface by the Program Committee Co-Chairs

摘要

Welcome to the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing! This year we received a record number of submissions. There were 1300 valid submissions. The 600 long papers and 700 short papers were allocated to one of 15 areas. The most popular areas this year were Semantics, Statistical Models and Machine Learning Methods, Text Mining and NLP applications, and Machine Translation. Reviewing for a conference this size involves an enormous volunteer effort from many individuals. We are very grateful to our 30 area chairs and to the more than 900 researchers who reviewed the submissions. We accepted 312 papers (157 long and 155 short papers), representing a global acceptance rate of 24%. An additional 17 papers accepted by the TACL journal were presented at the conference as well.