Corpora: ACL-2000 Student Workshop Call for Papers

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    ########### Call for Papers ################

    Student Workshop at ACL' 2000 Call For Papers
    38th Annual Meeting of the Association for
    Computational Linguistics
    3--6 October, 2000
    Hong Kong

    This information can also be found at this URL:
    http://www.tc.umn.edu/~pakh0002/

    Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established yet.
    Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between 1st and 7th of
    October, 2000.
    The exact dates will be posted once confirmed by the Main ACL'2000
    Conference
    Program Committee.

    1. General Invitation for Submissions
    The Student Session is an established tradition at ACL conferences.
    This year it will take the form of a Student Workshop. The main
    purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for student
    researchers who are investigating various areas related to
    Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would
    like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the
    workshop. Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to
    provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback,
    the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress.
    For the Student Workshop, original, and unpublished research is
    invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but
    not limited to these topic areas:

    -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

    The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos.
    See the Main ACL'2000 page for information.
    URL: http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000

    2. Submission Requirements

    Papers should describe original work in progress. The main purpose
    of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other
    researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development
    of the work. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future
    research wherever appropriate. The papers can have more than one
    author; however, all authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for
    presentation at the Student Workshop 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.

    3. Submission Procedure

    Paper Registration

    Registration of your submission is required. This can be done by
    filling out a form available here. After you fill out and submit this
    form, a unique ID number will be generated and sent to you in an
    e-mail shortly after the paper registration. You will then be able
    to use this ID number instead of your name on the title page of the
    paper and in any subsequent correspondence with the workshop
    co-chairs. If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper
    registration or experience problems using it, please, send email to
    pakh0002@tc.umn.edu

    Paper Length

    Authors should submit their papers for review, not to exceed 2500
    words. The count does not include title page and references. The
    final camera-ready copy is expected to be about 5 pages. The exact
    limit is to be announced once cinfirmed by the Main ACL'2000 Conference
    Program Committe.

    Separate items to be submitted

    Identification page
    Title:
    Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
    Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses
    Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
    Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
    Word Count: excluding title page and references
    Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify)

    Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
    Title page
    Title:
    Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
    Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
    Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
    Word Count: excluding title page and references
    Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify)

    Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
    Paper

    Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are
    acceptable.

    Electronic Submissions

    If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the following
    formats will be acceptable:
    PostScript (.ps)
    Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf)
    Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc)
    LaTex format ACL style (.tex)
    PDF (.pdf)
    We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style
    (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/Latex/index.html)
    files or Microsoft Word Style
    (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/word/ACL2000_submission.doc)
    files tailored for this year's conference. 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. These will be made available from this page soon. In
    case you are unable to use these style files directly, a description
    of the format can be found at this URL:

    http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/word/ACL2000_Format.doc

    Electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the following
    e-mail address:

    acl-student@linguistech.com

    Hard Copy Submissions

    If you are submitting a hard copy of your paper, please send six
    double sided copies of your paper (two copies should have the identification
    page attached, four should have the title page attached) to the following
    address:

    c/o Sergei Pakhomov
    Department of Linguistics
    University of Minnesota,
    315 Pillsbury Drive SE
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

    3. Reviewing Procedure

    Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be
    managed by Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have the
    assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched
    with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The
    final acceptance decision will be made based on the results of the
    review.

    Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make
    sure you do not put the author(s) name(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, you can't have a reference like this "We showed
    previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as
    "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)..."

    4. Schedule

    Submissions must be received by May 19, 2000. Late submissions
    (those arriving on or after May 20, 2000) will be automatically
    disqualified. The student workshop committee is not responsible
    for postal delays or other mailing problems. For electronic
    submissions, all time zones will be taken into account)
    Acknowledgement will be emailed soon after receipt.
    Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on
    July 21, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the
    preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to
    authors with their acceptance notice.

    5. Timetable

    The dates here pertain only to the Student Session.

    Important Dates:

    Paper registration: April 28, 2000
    Paper submission deadline: May 19, 2000
    Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2000
    Camera-Ready Copy Due: TBA

    Contact Information

    If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please
    use this address: acl-student@linguistech.com. An e-mail sent to
    this address will be forwarded to both Co-Chairs.

    Olivia Kwong (Co-Chair) Sergey Pakhomov (Co-Chair)
    Computer Laboratory Linguistics Department
    University of Cambridge University of Minnesota
    Cambridge CB2 3QG 315 Pillsbury Drive SE
    United Kingdom Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
                                    USA
    Oi.Yee-Kwong@cl.cam.ac.uk pakh0002@tc.umn.edu
    Tel: +44 1223 334619 Tel: +1 (612)-835-6546
    Fax: +44 1223 334678 Fax: +1 (612)-835-9720



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