Breaking News: Changing Attitudes and Practices

Standard practice in our field has been to announce research results at our annual conference or one of its affiliated meetings such as EMNLP or at the biennial COLING conference. This year, by its submission deadline of 23 January 2007, the ACL Program Committee had received 588 main conference submissions, plus another 52 submissions to the Student Research Workshop, for a total of 640 papers. Similarly, by its subsequent deadline of 26 March 2007, the EMNLP Program Committee had received 398 submissions (excluding ones that were withdrawn or rejected without review). It was estimated that about a third of these (say 130) were the same or minor variations of
Papers submitted to ACL conference.