Mentoring

Mentorship for Accepted Papers

One of the primary missions of the SRW is to provide students with active mentorship, including feedback about their submission and guidance before and during their presentation. Every accepted paper will be assigned a dedicated mentor, an experienced researcher in the field who will provide feedback to the student author, and will prepare in-depth comments and questions to prior to the presentation.

We are very excited about our terrific team of mentors this year for our accepted papers! Thank you so much!

  • Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University

  • Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology

  • Wenliang Chen, Soochow Universit

  • Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto

  • Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen

  • Wolfgang Maier, University of Düsseldorf

  • Ndapandula Nakashole, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Alan Ritter, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Jon Scott Stevens, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

  • Wei Xu, University of Pennsylvania

  • Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University

  • Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Pre-submission Mentorship Program

The SRW offers students the opportunity to receive feedback prior to submitting their work for review. The goal of the pre-submission mentorship program is to improve the quality of writing and presentation of the student's work, not to critique the work itself. Participation is optional but encouraged. Students wishing to participate must send their work to the email address

acl-srw-2015@googlegroups.com by February 24. Participants will receive a mentor who will review and provide feedback to the student within 2 weeks. This mentor will not be the same person who will review the final submission. The feedback will be in the format of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing; students are not required to make the changes suggested by the pre-submission mentor.

This year, we are very excited to be working with the following wonderful pre-submission mentors:

  • Marine Carpuat, National Research Council Canada

  • Silvie Cinková, Charles University in Prague

  • Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland

  • Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research

  • Ralph Grishman, New York University

  • Sophia Katrenko, Elsevier

  • Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research

  • Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas

  • Adam Lopez, Johns Hopkins University

  • Mei Ling Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Petya Osenova, Sofia University

  • Philip Resnik, University of Maryland

  • Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University

  • Rui Wang, Trendiction S.A.

  • Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

  • Yi Zhang, Nuance Communications