Corpora: ACL2000 Call for Papers

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                          ACL 2000 Call For Papers

                 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
                        Computational Linguistics
                          3--6 October, 2000
                               Hong Kong

     The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of
     papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. 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.

     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     and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,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; multi-lingual processing, 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;
     tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.

     Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at
     specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows:

            T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text
            T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue
            T3: Text Summarization
            T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language
                Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages

     Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each
     can be obtained from the ACL-2000 conference website
     (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/).

     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 the Student Workshop submissions. Papers
     should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
     rather than intended work, and 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 on the title page. (See Submission Format below.)
         
     Reviewing

     The reviewing of the papers submitted to the General Sessions and
     the Thematic Sessions will be blind. Reviewing of papers submitted
     to the General Sessions will be managed by an international Conference
     Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have
     the assistance of a team of reviewers. The Area Chairs are:

             Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of
                                              Science and Technology, Korea
             Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp, Belgium
             Dan Jurafsky University of Colorado, USA
             Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
                                            Japan
             Johanna Moore University of Edinburgh, UK
             Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, PA
             Ellen Riloff University of Utah, USA
             Giorgio Satta Universita` di Padova, Italy

     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 (both General Sessions and
     Thematic Sessions) will be made by the Conference Program Committee.
     Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
      
     Submission Procedure
     
     The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are
     submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions.
     Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references).
     Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without
     review.

     We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style
     files tailored for this year's conference. These are available from the
     ACL-2000 Conference Website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). These style
     files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count
     and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication.
     A description of the format is also available in case you are
     unable to use these style files directly. If you are unable to access
     this webpage, please send email to acl2k@cis.udel.edu.

     The reviewing of papers submitted to the General Session or the Thematic
     Sessions will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include
     the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
     reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...")
     should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
     showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
     
     You must first register your submission. This can be done by filling out
     an electronic form that is accessible from the conference webpage
     (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). The form requires
     a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a
     preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will
     return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission.
     Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the
     program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the
     electronic registration form, please send email to acl2k@cis.udel.edu with
     all of the title page information (see below) plus the authors' names and
     affiliations.

     As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page
     will be required. The title page should include the following information:

            Title:
            Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
            Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
            Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
            Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one)
            Word Count, excluding title page and references:
            Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
            Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

     T1, T2, T3, and T4 correspond to the four Theme Sessions and G corresponds
     to the General Session. A paper can be submitted to at most one session.

     The identification page should contain all of the information in the title
     page, but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and
     email addresses. The format for the identification page should be as follows:

            Title:
            Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
            Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
            Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
            Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
            Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one)
            Word Count, excluding title page and references:
            Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
            Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

     Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Late submissions
     (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be rejected without review.
     The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other
     mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page
     if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following
     address:

            ACL-2000 Submission
            c/o K. Vijay-Shanker
            103 Smith Hall
            Department of Computer and Information Sciences
            University of Delaware
            Newark, DE 19716
            USA

     Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In
     addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of
     papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic
     version of the paper (without the identification page) to
     acl-routing@cis.udel.edu. Please include the paper ID code in the subject
     line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and
     plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The
     electronic version should also be received by April 7, 2000.
     Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist
     the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this
     supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy
     submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version,
     please send mail to the pc co-chairs at acl2k@cis.udel.edu.

     Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon
     after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email)
     around June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of
     the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance
     notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright
     release statement along with the final camera-ready papers.
     
     The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic
     sessions.

          Paper registration deadline: March 31, 2000
          Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000
          Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000
          ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000

    Submission Questions

     Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should
     contact the program committee co-chairs sufficiently ahead of the
     submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made.
     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.

       Changning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair)
       
       Microsoft Research, China CIS Department
       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



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