Notes from ACL 2022
Here are some of my notes and comments on what I had a chance to see at ACL in
Dublin last week (my first in-person conference since 2019).
ACL D&I 60-60 initiative
ACL announced its 60-60 initiative, for the 60th birthday of ACL, all materials
that ACL produces should be available in 60 languages. The initiative already
machine-translated titles and abstracts of ACL 2022 papers and did an automatic
voiceover for plenary talks at the conference. Although this is definitely a
cool idea, what I had a chance to see so far, was a little disappointing to me.
The quality of the MT is not great at all and the voiceover in the talks speeds
up and slows down the generated speech in such a way that sometimes it