The earliest conference in the cycle is always the least preferred conference: last year it was EACL, this year it’s NAACL. We encourage workshops to structure their work such that they can be conducted at any conference. As our goal is maximizing acceptance, a workshop may not be assigned to their preferred venue (though we do try to take hard constraints into account). Moving forward, we will reconsider the proposal submission timeline to add more time prior to the first conference in the cycle–but we haven’t yet investigated the broader implications of a change in timeline. Making the decisions was difficult, and we had to consider many factors beyond numerical scores to ensure a good set of workshops for the upcoming conference cycle (diversity of topics, inclusion of long-running/expected workshops, and making space for new workshops). The decision to reject workshops was, in some cases, particularly difficult as we also rejected some of the workshops proposed by the Chairs and WO. For various reasons, there is a very limited number of workshop slots this year while seeing a large increase in proposals. This is likely to change in future years, but the number of workshop slots is inherently variable and is dependent on the physical space at the conferences.
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