Schedule
Below is the overall schedule of the main conference, tutorials and workshops.
You can find the detailed schedule in the conference handbook available in 24 timezones.
Note that all timings are in Seattle, Pacific Daytime Time (UTC/GMT-7). On the ACL2020 virtual website (which will go live on July 3), you will be able to view the schedule in your timezone.
July 5
| Category | Name | Start Time - End time |
|---|---|---|
| Tutorial | T1, T5, T7 | 6:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
| Tutorial | T1, T3, T4, T7 | 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM |
| Tutorial | T2, T5, T6, T8 | 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
| Workshop | W1: Widening NLP (WiNLP) | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Main Conference | Undergraduate Student Panel | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
| Main Conference | Paper Q&A Session 1A | 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM |
| Main Conference | Paper Q&A Session 1B | 11:00 PM - Midnight |
July 6
Main Conference
| Session Name | Start Time - End time |
|---|---|
| Group Mentoring Session 1 | Midnight - 1:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 2A | 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM |
| Birds of a Feather Session 1 | 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 2B | 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 3A | 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 3B | 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM |
| Opening Remarks | 7:00 AM - 7:15 AM |
| Presidential Address | 7:15 AM - 7:30 AM |
| Keynote by Prof. Kathleen R. McKeown | 7:30 AM - 8:45 AM |
| Business Meeting Q&A | 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM |
| Group Mentoring Session 2 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 4A | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 4B | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Birds of a Feather Session 2 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 5A | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 5B | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 6A | 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 6B | 11:00 PM - Midnight |
July 7
Main Conference
| Session Name | Start Time - End time |
|---|---|
| Group Mentoring Session 3 | Midnight - 1:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 7A | 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 7B | 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 8A | 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 8B | 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | 7:00 AM - 7:45 AM |
| Distinguished Service Award & Test of Time Awards | 7:45 AM - 8:15 AM |
| Review Meeting Q&A | 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM |
| Group Mentoring Session 4 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 9A | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 9B | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 10A | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 10B | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 11A | 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 11B | 11:00 PM - Midnight |
July 8
Main Conference
| Session Name | Start Time - End time |
|---|---|
| Group Mentoring Session 3 | Midnight - 1:00 AM |
| Queer in AI | Midnight - 1:30 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 12A | 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 12B | 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 13A | 5:00 AM - 6:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 13B | 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM |
| Keynote by Prof. Josh Tenenbaum | 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM |
| Best Paper Award Ceremony | 8:15 AM - 8:25 AM |
| Future Conferences | 8:25 AM - 8:37 AM |
| Closing Remarks | 8:37 AM - 8:49 AM |
| Group Mentoring Session 5 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 14A | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Queer in AI | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
| Paper Q&A Session 14B | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 15A | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
| Paper Q&A Session 15B | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
July 9
Workshops
| Name | Start Time - End time |
|---|---|
| W10: Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) Session 1 | 1:00 AM - 2:45 AM |
| W5: Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) | 4:00 AM - 1:15 PM |
| W7: Figurative Language Processing (FLP) | 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM |
| W3: NLP for Conversational Al (NLP4ConvAI) | 6:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
| W10: Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) Session 2 | 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| W6: International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT) | 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM |
| W8: Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE) | 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM |
| W4: Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) | 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM |
| W2: The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) | 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM |
| W9: Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR) | 9:00 AM - 5:45 PM |
| W10: Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) Session 3 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| W20: NLP COVID-19 Workshop (NLPCovid) | 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
July 10
Workshops
| Name | Start Time - End time |
|---|---|
| W16: E-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP) | 5:30 AM - 2:15 PM |
| W19: The Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Human Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML) | 6:00 AM - 1:45 PM |
| W13: Building Educational Applications (BEA) | 6:00 AM - 1:15 PM |
| W18: Automatic Simultaneous Translation (AutoSimTrans) Session 1 | 7:20 AM - 9:30 PM |
| W14: 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology | 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM |
| W11: Natural Language Interfaces (NLI) | 8:15 AM - 5:50 PM |
| W12: Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation (WNGT) | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM |
| W15: NLP for Medical Conversations (NLPMC) | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| W2: The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| W17: Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP) | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| W18: Automatic Simultaneous Translation (AutoSimTrans) | 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM |