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