This the final COOLING-2012 program, that will be printed and put on the USB keys. There are 3 types of presentation: Long (oral presentation), Poster, and Demo. More information is given below under each type of presentation.

• (3/12/12) The program now contains the final titles and authors lists.
  
• (4/12/12) Session chairs for long papers and for demos have been finalized.
• (4/12/12) The program will still evolve marginally, due to last-minute constraints or impossibilities (notably, some visa problems).
  If you have a serious problem with the slot assigned to your presentation and not merely a "matter of convenience" request, please contact the PC Chairs, Prof. Martin Kay (mjkay@stanford.edu) and Prof. Christian Boitet (Christian.Boitet@imag.fr).

Pdf files for the 3 parts of the program (in A4 and 2*A5) are available in the Google folder gDrive-COLING-final-programs

Long:

• In each conference day (10th, 11th, 13th, 14th) there will be 3 "periods" organized in 5 parallel "tracks" corresponding to 5 different rooms (or video-extended rooms in some cases).
• The intersection of a period and a track is a "session". There will thus be 60 sessions in total, and as many session Chairs.
• One period will be before lunch, the two others in the afternoon, separated by a 20-minute coffee break.
• IMPORTANT: a period is 100 minutes long. It contains 3 30-minute slots, for 3 papers (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion), and 2 successive slots are separated by short 5-minute pauses, to allow participants to switch rooms without disturbing a presentation.

We use the following numbering scheme to refer to a presentation slot: day-period-track-sequence_number. For example, 2-3-4-2 means Thursday, 3rd period (beginning at 16:30), 4th track, 2nd paper of the session (17:05).

Poster:

There will be 4 poster sessions, one per conference day.

• The first day, in the VMCC, between 18h15 and 19h45, after the 3rd period and before the reception
• The other days, in the foyer of the Convocation Hall, after the invited talk (given in the CH).

On the practical side:

• The poster boards will fit one ISO A0 size poster, landscape orientation only, with dimensions 1189×841mm (about 46×33 inches).
• The posters should be easily readable at a distance of about 2m (6 feet).
• Proper mounting items will be provided at the site.
• No additional facilities (such as electrical sockets, tables for laptops or handouts etc.) can be guaranteed to the poster presenters.

Contact: Anoop Kunchukuttan: anoop.kunchukuttan@gmail.com

Demo:

One missing demo (#1161) added on 23/11/12. Some precisions added on 26/11/12.
There will be a "self-organizing demo session" each COLING day, in parallel with the oral sessions (and tea breaks). All demos appear on all days in the program, because a demo can be presented several times.

• The purpose of these demo sessions is to make demonstrations, not to make oral or poster presentations about them -- the demo papers are just a written support for the participants to understand what the various demos are supposed to show, and to select the demos they want to see.
• To demo authors:
  • You will present your demo mainly in the VMCC, and basically choose when and where you present it. You may present it several times, and on different days.
  • You will indicate on a large billboard in the VMCC hall when and where you will present your demo. This way, you will be able to attend the talks you want to listen to.
  • You will also contact the organizers (demo Chair and helpers) to check availability of a demo place for the time interval you desire, each time you want to present your demo.
  • You will then go to that place at the selected time, set up your demo, and present it.
  • People interested by your demo will then come to see it at the time and location you will have indicated on the billboard.
• Locations: 7 to 10 demos can be presented at the same time in each of 2 70-seat lecture rooms, and there will be a certain number (to be determined by the organizers) of demo places (1 table, 2-3 chairs) in the halls.
  Internet will be available in all demo locations, and electrical power will be available in most.

Contact: Anoop Kunchukuttan: anoop.kunchukuttan@gmail.com