I was surprised that so many of the NACL 2016 papers described deep learning projects

I attended the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference last June in San Diego. Here is a link to the published papers.

The conference was great. The keynote talks, panel discussions, and the talks I attended were interesting! As an independent consultant I payed my own way to the conference and I found it to be a good investment. Sometime I would enjoy attending a European chapter of the ACL conference.