Thank you so much for joining us in Copenhagen! Welcome to a cosmopolitan city of fantastic restaurants, lovely seascapes, rich history, and lots and lots of cyclists! We have an exciting program lined up for you, with three Invited talks, fifteen workshops, seven tutorials, nine TACL presentations, 322 reviewed papers presented as both oral talks and posters, and twenty-one demos. I am especially grateful to our Program Chairs, Rebecca Hwa and Sebastian Riedel, who did a fantastic job managing a backbreaking 1,500 paper submissions (1466 reviewed papers). This involved 51 Area chairs and 980 reviewers. We tried some new things this year (never conducive to a smooth process) including a more careful handling of the COIs that result from Area Chair submissions, and the addition of a meta-review step to encourage more thoughtful reviewing. We are soliciting feedback on the meta-review process, from both reviewers and authors. Despite the additional time involvement, many of the Area Chairs embraced this new approach, and would like to repeat it. However, there are clearly a few dissenters, since Rebecca and Sebastian ended up writing around 200 meta-reviews themselves at the last minute1 We are also trying to raise the visibility and status of the poster sessions by integrating them as parallel sessions alongside oral talks, with poster session chairs. This is in response to the survey results from EMNLP 2015 that indicated a decided preference for smaller, more frequent poster sessions during the day rather than evening mega-sessions. Finally, Rebecca and Sebastian are bringing you three outstanding invited speakers, Dan Jurafsky, Sharon Goldwater, and Nando de Freitas. No program chairs ever worked harder to bring you a superb set of presentations in an attendee friendly setting.
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机译：非常感谢您加入我们的哥本哈根！欢迎来到世界一流的餐馆，可爱的海景，悠久的历史以及众多的骑自行车者的大都会！我们为您准备了一个激动人心的计划，其中包括3个受邀演讲，15个讲习班，7个教程，9个TACL演讲，322篇既作口头演讲又作海报的评论论文以及21个演示。我特别感谢我们的计划主持人丽贝卡·华（Rebecca Hwa）和塞巴斯蒂安·里德尔（Sebastian Riedel），他们出色地完成了1,500篇论文的投稿（1466篇审阅论文）。其中涉及51位区域主席和980位审稿人。今年，我们尝试了一些新事物（永远都不利于流程的顺利进行），包括对区域主席提交的COI进行更仔细的处理，并增加了元审查步骤，以鼓励进行更周到的审查。我们正在征集审稿人和作者的有关元审阅过程的反馈。尽管增加了时间投入，许多地区主席还是接受了这种新方法，并想重复一遍。但是，显然有一些反对者，因为丽贝卡和塞巴斯蒂安在最后一分钟最终自己撰写了约200篇元评论。与海报会议椅子。这是对2015年EMNLP的调查结果的回应，该调查结果表明，人们决定优先选择白天举行更小，更频繁的海报会议，而不是晚上举行大型会议。最后，丽贝卡（Rebecca）和塞巴斯蒂安（Sebastian）带给您三位杰出的受邀演讲者，丹·尤拉夫斯基（Dan Jurafsky），莎朗·戈德沃特（Sharon Goldwater）和南多·德·弗雷塔斯（Nando de Freitas）。在与会人员友好的环境中，没有任何程序主持会更加努力地为您带来出色的演示文稿。
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