EMNLP 2024 Demo Track Summary
Nov 2024
Tasks/Roles:
- Before submission:
- Call for papers of the demo track
- Openreview set up and operations, including submission form including all the submission field (video link, demo link, etc), the review form, meta review form, decision option, camera ready form, etc
- During Submission:
- Hire reviewers, area chairs, chasing reviews and area chairs
- Making the final decision (we assign chairs as SACs)
- Composing Award Committee, voting for Best Paper Awards
- After submission:
- Proceedings, checking whether the format is correct and contact authors to revise, will take a long time
- Underline coordination
- Registration tracking & on-site demo coordination
- Publicize about the demo track
Recommendations/Lessons learned:
- Most importantly: We recommend to split the task at the beginning, set up timeline for each task (that is why we give a complete list of the tasks)
- The length of the demo paper (6 pages) and main paper (8 pages) is different. Should we change it? If not, please highlight this.
- We set Appendix page limitation, which may not be very useful, as demo tends to need more space for visualizations
- Ask area chairs to hire emergency reviewers to ensure there are no less than 3 reviews when they write a meta review. Some area chairs do not chase reviewers.
- Give more time for reviewers and meta reviewers