Outstanding Mentors

The COLING 2018 writing mentoring program went extremely well—we are grateful to all of the mentors who volunteered their time to provide thoughtful comments to the authors who participated. Furthermore, the prompts we used in the writing mentoring form (listed in the description of the program) were effective in eliciting useful feedback for authors.

There is great willingness in our field to participate from the mentoring side.  Over 100 mentors signed up, which means we could have provided mentoring for even more papers than we did. It seems that the biggest hurdle to success for such a program is getting the word out to those who would most likely benefit from it. (We’ve got another blog post in the works about outreach & responses to our author survey.)

Reviewing the work of the mentors to find those to recognize as outstanding mentors was inspiring—and the task of choosing difficult—because so many did such a great job. Even if the mentored papers aren’t ultimate accepted to COLING, the authors who received mentoring will have benefited from thoughtful, constructive feedback on their work which we hope will inform both future writings on the same topic and perhaps even their approach to writing on other topics.

Against that background, the following mentors distinguished themselves as particularly outstanding:

  • Kevin Cohen
  • Carla Parra Escartín
  • David Mimno
  • Emily Morgan
  • Irina Temnikova
  • Jennifer Williams

Thank you to all of our mentors!

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