38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
3--6 October, 2000
Hong Kong
1. Paper Sessions
1.1 Topics of Interest
As was the case with last year's ACL conference, the technical
sessions of the conference will be of two kinds. There will be
General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic Sessions
organized around themes proposed by members of the computational
linguistics community. The Thematic Sessions will run as parallel
sessions, resulting in smaller and more focussed audiences.
When you submit a paper to the conference, you will need to consider
whether you want to present the paper in the General Sessions or in
one of the Thematic Sessions, which will be listed in the final call
for papers (due to come out around January 20, 2000).
The conference will also feature a student workshop, tutorials,
workshops, and demos. Separate calls for these will be issued shortly.
For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,
including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics,
syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology;
interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic,
mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented
information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based
language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural
language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating
the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message
and narrative understanding systems.
1.2 Requirements
Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting
a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate
Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on
requirements for papers submitted to the Student Sessions. Papers
should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
rather than intended work and they should indicate clearly the state
of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete
evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for
presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot 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.
1.3 Submission and Reviewing Procedure
The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are
submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions.
Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers for review,
not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references).
The submission procedure will be the same regardless of whether
you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic
Sessions. Electronic submissions can not be accepted.
Further details on the submission procedure will be provided
in the final call for papers (due to come out around January 20th, 2000).
See the separate Call for Student Workshop Papers for information on
submission details for papers submitted to the Student Workshop.
Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will, as in
previous years, be managed by an international Conference Program
Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the
assistance of a team of reviewers. Reviewing of papers for the
Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic
Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers; final decisions
on the technical program content (both General Sessions and Thematic
Sessions) will be made by the Program Committee.
Note that reviewing of papers will be blind.
1.4 Schedule
Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Electronic submissions
will not be accepted. Late submissions (those arriving on or after April 8th)
will be returned. Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after receipt.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on
June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final
camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.
2. Venue and Local Organization
The conference will be held in Hong Kong from October 3rd through 6th, 2000.
The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Dekai Wu;
the local arrangements information will be posted soon.
3. Timetable
The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic
sessions: see the separate Calls for Student Workshop Papers, Tutorial
Proposals and Workshops for the timetable associated with those
elements of the conference.
Preliminary Call issued: December 15, 1999
Final Call for Papers issued: January 20, 2000
Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000
ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000
All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic
sessions of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k@cis.udel.edu;
this forwards to both PC co-chairs.
Chang-Ning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair)
Microsoft Research, China Dept. of Computer Science
5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware
No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA
Beijing 100080, P.R.C
cnhuang@microsoft.com vijay@cis.udel.edu
Tel: (86-10)6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952
Fax: (86-10)8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458
Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair)
Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and
Processing Lab Information Sciences
SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania
Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
iida@csl.sony.co.jp joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359
Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247