The 2019 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Student Research Workshop

计算语言学协会（ACL）是计算语言学和自然语言处理的主要国际组织，这反过来又是机器学习和人工智能研究的主要应用领域之一。ACL北美分会年会（NAACL）是这些领域最负盛名和最具选择性的国际会议之一。会议记录是计算语言学中被引用最多的出版物之一，会议本身也是北美研究人员在该领域举行的最重要的会议。该项目将资助被选中参加NAACL学生研究研讨会的学生的旅行，会议和住房费用，该研讨会将于2019年6月2日至7日在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯举行的NAACL主会议期间举行。学生研究研讨会有助于培养新一代的研究人员，他们对自己的领域有更深入的了解，跨机构的联系和合作，以及创新和令人兴奋的研究项目。这有助于美国拥有所需的科学和工程知识和技能的研究人员。该研讨会鼓励合作研究的精神，并为新一代计算语言学家建立一个支持性的环境。通过赞助学生旅行，工作坊可以接触到更广泛的受众，拓宽计算语言学社区的视野，并帮助为计算机科学研究带来多样性。学生研究工作坊征集两类提交材料：研究论文和研究建议。研究提案只能有一个作者，必须是学生。研究论文可以有多个作者，第一作者是学生（研究生或本科生）。与典型的研讨会和会议不同，学生作者在提交作品之前有机会获得明确的指导：他们与该领域的世界级研究人员接触，他们提供指导并帮助作者完善他们的提交。然后，研讨会是一个场所，让学生从他们的机构以外的专家那里获得对他们工作的建设性批评反馈;学生在这里提出的早期工作可能会在以后形成完整的会议论文，期刊文章或论文的基础。这些功能对于来自贫困背景或机构的学生特别有用，因为他们可能无法获得如此强大的指导资源。此外，讲习班由学生组织和管理。学生组织者获得了专业成长和与主要会议组委会研究人员互动的宝贵机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the primary international organization for computational linguistics and natural language processing, which in turn is one of the primary application areas for research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The annual meeting of the North American chapter of the ACL (NAACL) is one of the most prestigious and selective international conferences in these fields. The proceedings of this meeting is among the most cited publications in computational linguistics, and the meeting itself is the most important meeting for North American researchers in the field on years when it is held. This project will subsidize travel, conference and housing expenses of students selected to participate in the NAACL Student Research Workshop, which will take place during the main NAACL conference June 2-7, 2019 in Minneapolis, MN. The Student Research Workshop helps create a new generation of researchers with a more thorough understanding of their field, with connections and collaborations across institutions, and with innovative and exciting research programs. This contributes to America's pool of researchers with the needed scientific and engineering knowledge and skills. The workshop encourages a spirit of collaborative research and builds a supportive environment for a new generation of computational linguists. By sponsoring student travel, the workshop can reach a wider audience, broadening the horizons of the computational linguistics community and helping bring diversity to computer science research.The Student Research Workshop solicits two categories of submissions: research papers and research proposals. The research proposal can have only one author who must be a student. The research papers can have multiple authors, with the first author being a student (at either the graduate or undergraduate level). Unlike typical workshops and conferences, student authors have the opportunity to receive explicit mentoring prior to submitting their work: they are put into contact with world-class researchers in the field who provide guidance and help the authors polish their submissions. The workshop is then a venue for students to receive constructive critical feedback on their work from experts outside of their institution; the early-stage work that students present here may later form the basis for full conference papers, journal articles, or dissertations. These features are particularly useful for students from underprivileged backgrounds or institutions where they might not have access to such strong mentoring resources. In addition, the workshop is organized and run by students. The student organizers gain valuable opportunities for professional growth and interaction with the researchers on the organizing committee of the main conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.