Student Travel Support for 2017 Workshop for Women and Underrepresented Minorities in NLP

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。它也是机器学习和人工智能研究人员的主要应用领域之一。它的年度会议记录提供了该领域的基础；它是计算语言学中被引用最多、最受尊敬的出版物。然而，在ACL社区中，作者和领导人的人口统计代表性明显是一边倒的。该项目将资助NLP(WiNLP)妇女和代表不足的少数族裔参加研讨会的旅费，这将是2017年7月30日在加拿大温哥华举行的ACL 2017年会议的一部分。研讨会旨在强调和促进ACL社区内不同背景的研究人员的工作。这有助于美国的研究人员具有不同的背景、经验、兴趣和专业知识领域，这是科学和工程取得成功并造福社会广泛阶层所需的。WiNLP讲习班为妇女和代表性不足的少数群体提供了一个介绍她们的工作的场所，并从该领域的资深研究人员导师那里获得反馈和建议。研讨会以2页的长篇摘要的形式征集意见书，重点关注自然语言规划的所有领域。被接受的摘要要么作为演讲的海报呈现出来。研讨会还将包括指导会议和该领域知名研究人员的特邀讲座。这使妇女和代表性不足的少数群体能够从广泛的acl社区获得反馈，参与该社区，并使该社区更多地意识到他们的工作。

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the primary international organization for computational linguistics and natural language processing. It also is one of the primary application areas for researchers in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The proceedings of its annual meeting provide the foundation of the field; it is the most cited and most respected publication in computational linguistics. Yet demographic representation within the authors and leaders in the ACL community is notably lop-sided. This project is to subsidize travel to the workshop for women and underrepresented minorities in NLP (WiNLP), which will be a part of the 2017 meeting of the ACL held in Vancouver, Canada on July 30, 2017. The workshop aims to highlight and foster the work by researchers of diverse backgrounds within the ACL community. This contributes to America's pool of researchers with the variety of backgrounds, experiences, interests and areas of expertise required for science and engineering to be successful and benefit broad segments of society. The WiNLP workshop provides a venue for women and underrepresented minorities to present their work, and to get feedback and advice from mentors who are senior researchers in the field. The workshop solicits submissions in the form of a 2-page extended abstract focusing on all areas of NLP. Accepted abstracts are presented either as a poster of a talk. The workshop will also include a mentoring sessions and invited talks by established researchers in the field. This enables women and underrepresented minorities to get feedback from the broad ACL community, to participate in that community, and for that community to become more aware of their work.