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Tue Feb 25 2003

Calls: Student Workshop/Computational Ling

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  • Priscilla Rasmussen, 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

    Message 1: HLT/NAACL 2003 Student Workshop

     Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:30:25 EST
    From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmussecs.rutgers.edu>
    Subject: HLT/NAACL 2003 Student Workshop


    HLT/NAACL 2003 Student Workshop Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Call for Papers

    Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established yet. It may take place any time between May 27 and June 1, 2003.

    1. General Invitation for Submissions

    The Student Research Workshop is a tradition at ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) conferences. In this conference, we want to expand the workshop to include not only students in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, but also those from the Information Retrieval and Speech communities. Participants will have the opportunity to get feedback both from a wide audience in general and from selected panelists: experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

    We invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. The emphasis will be on work in progress. Original and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of speech, information retrieval, and computational linguistics. We especially encourage research that is in the intersection of two or three of these areas.

    Primary workshop topics:

    - Language modeling - Topic detection - Information extraction

    Additional topics of interest:

    - Dialog systems and spoken language understanding (NLP and Speech). - Speech synthesis and natural language generation (NLP and Speech). - Speech-to-speech translation (NLP and Speech). - Spoken document retrieval (IR and Speech) - Prosody and parsing (NLP and Speech) - Question answering (NLP and IR) - Summarization and gisting (NLP and IR) - User modeling and adaptation (IR and Speech) - Disambiguation, stemming, lexical chains (NLP and IR)

    Submissions will also be accepted in any of the following areas:

    NLP: - Pragmatics - Discourse - Semantics - Syntax - Lexicon - Phonetics and phonology - Morphology - Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - Multi-lingual processing - Machine translation and translation aids - Language in multi-modal systems - Message and narrative understanding systems

    IR: - Machine learning for IR, text mining, clustering, text categorization - Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval - Novelty detection, topic tracking, collaborative filtering - Interfaces, visualization, interactive IR - Natural language processing for IR - Evaluation, experimental design and metrics - Formal models, language models, fusion/combination

    Speech: - Speech synthesis - Speech recognition - Speech understanding - Multimodality - Spoken dialog systems

    The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. More information on these can be found on the main HLT/NAACL-03 page.

    2. Submission Requirements

    Papers should describe original work, either in progress or completed. The workshop will be ideally suited to students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still have significant research left to do; those students in the final stages of their thesis should be submitting instead to the main conference. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. All authors of multi-author papers must be students. A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop may not be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. A student who has already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be allowed to present again at the student session of any of these conferences, but is encouraged to submit instead to the main conference.

    3. Submission Procedure

    Please see the Website http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ebreck/hlt-naacl03-student/ for more information, or contact hlt-naacl03-studentumich.edu.

    Submission format

    Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL Latex style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be available from the web site: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ebreck/hlt-naacl03-student/

    These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format will also be available for those unable to use these style files directly.

    Electronic Submissions

    Only electronic submissions, in one of the following formats, are acceptable.

    - PostScript (.ps) - Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf) - Microsoft Word ACL style (.doc) - PDF (.pdf)

    4. Reviewing Procedure

    The reviewing of submissions will be managed by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the review.

    Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, make sure you do not put the name(s) of the author(s) on the title page. (See paper submission requirements for details.) You should not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, instead of saying "We showed previously (Smith, 1991), ...", say "Smith (1991) previously showed ...".

    5. Schedule

    Submissions must be received by March 15, midnight EST. Late submissions (those arriving on or after March 16) will be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems.

    Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by email on April 7. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

    6. Timetable

    Paper submissions deadline: March 15, midnight EST (hard deadline) Notification of acceptance: April 7 Camera ready papers due: April 14, 9:00am PST (hard deadline) Workshop date: June 1 (tentative, visit http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ebreck/hlt-naacl03-student/ for more information)

    7. Contact Information

    Email to hlt-naacl03-studentumich.edu will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

    Costas Boulis (Co-Chair, Speech) Department of Electrical Engineering University of Washington 253 EE/CSE Building Campus Box 352500 Seattle, WA 98195-2500 USA boulisee.washington.edu 206-543-4868

    Eric Breck (Co-Chair, NLP) Department of Computer Science Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 USA ebreckcs.cornell.edu 607-255-7081

    Victor Lavrenko (Co-Chair, IR) Department of Computer Science

    140 Governors Dr. University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9264 USA lavrenkocs.umass.edu 413-545-0728

    Message 2: 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

     Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:24:35 EST
    From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmussecs.rutgers.edu>
    Subject: 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics


    Subject: Reminder CFP: ACL-2003

    This is a reminder for the CFP: 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2003), July 2003, Sapporo, JAPAN For details, see the Web site http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/

    Main Conference:: Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003 (Note that we NO LONGER require early registration of papers.) Submission site: http://acl03-submissions.cs.uiuc.edu

    Student Research Workshop:: Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003 (Note that we NO LONGER require early registration of papers.) Submission site: http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student/

    Best regards,

    ACL-2003 Publicity committee