If you have a commercial product or service of interest to the natural language processing community, the ACL 2002 Exhibits Program is the perfect way to introduce it to your potential customers. ACL conference attendees will include an estimated over 500 academic, government, and industrial researchers and developers, working on all areas of natural language processing technology ranging from fundamental research to specific end-user applications. The ACL is the only conference to be held in North America in 2002 that will attract this many of your targeted customers.
The ACL 2002 exhibits space is ideally located adjacent to the paper presentation rooms and break areas. High-speed Internet connectivity and telephone connections, as well as a wide range of audio-visual equipment are available.
A wide range of products will be featured in the exhibits program, including:
- Natural language processing technology including systems for machine translation, natural language understanding, dialog processing and natural language generation
- Natural language processing components such as lexicons and parsers
- Tools and software used in natural language processing research, such as tools for corpora analysis and NL processing analysis
- Tools and software used in developing natural language applications, for example, dialog design tools and tools for customizing NLP and speech recognition systems.
- Tools and software for teaching natural language processing
- Corpora
- Speech recognition and understanding systems
- Technical books and publications
Note that the exhibits program is targeted primarily for commercial products. If you're interested in demonstrating non-commercial or research software, you'll want to contact the demonstration program.
Costs and Facilities
The basic price for exhibits is $500 per day for a 10' X 10' foot space. An exhibit can run for one, two, or all three days, depending on your needs. You can also include a short description of the exhibit in the Exhibits/Sponsors brochure, which will be distributed to all conference registrants.
Exhibit space is also included with Gold ($10,000) and Silver ($5,000) conference sponsorship. See the sponsorship page (link) for details on sponsorship. A reduced price of $300 per day is available for publishers. The price includes a 3' X 6' skirted table and chairs if requested, as well as electrical power. Pipe and drape partitions, telephone lines, audio-visual equipment, and Internet connections are also available upon request.
Equipment can be sent to Houston Hall no earlier than 3-4 days before the meeting and must be removed immediately after the meeting.
The exhibits area will be open the same hours as the technical meeting. Security will be provided for your equipment during the hours when the building is open.
How to Exhibit
If your organization is interested in a commercial exhibit, please send the following information by May 1 by email to the Exhibits Chair, Deborah Dahl:
Name of organization:
Title of exhibit:
Type of exhibit (publisher, NL software, tools, etc.)
Are you a Gold or Silver conference sponsor?
Describe your needs for tables, chairs, pipe and drape, audiovisual equipment, Internet connectivity and telephone service
Description of exhibit (1-2 paragraphs) to be included in the exhibits pamphlet
Organizational contact for exhibits: (name, address, email, telephone and fax)
Exhibit days requested (and hours if the exhibit won't be open all the time)
Send payment by May 1 to:
Priscilla Rasmussen
ACL-02 Exhibits Program
75 Patterson Street, Suite 9
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
email: acl@aclweb.org
Phone: (732) 342-9100
Fax: (732) 342-9339
Contact Deborah Dahl if you have any other questions about the exhibits program.
Deborah Dahl
Exhibits/Sponsorship Chair, ACL 2002
Unisys Corporation
deborah.dahl@unisys.com
Voice: (610) 648-3483
FAX: (610) 695-5636
Payment questions should be directed to Priscilla Rasmussen.