[Corpora-List] ACL 2003 Newsletter No. 2

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    ACL2003 News Letter No.2 (7th of February, 2003)
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    Hitoshi Isahara (Publicity Chair, CRL) and Masaki Murata (CRL)
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    Venue: Convention Center of Sapporo, Sapporo, JAPAN
    Dates: Tutorials and Pre-conference Workshops: July 7, 2003
            Main Conference: July 8-10, 2003
            Post-conference Workshops: July 11-12, 2003
    (For details, see the Web site http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/)

    This news letter includes
    1) Submission Deadlines and Submission Sites
        1-1) Main Conference
        1-2) Student Research Workshop
        1-3) Interactive Poster/Demo Sessions
    2) Tutorials
    3) Reduced Registration Fee and Visa Documents
        3-1) Reduced Registration Fee
        3-2) Visa Documents
    4) ACL-2003 Student Research Workshop Program Committee
    5) Call for Exhibits and Sponsorship

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    1) Submission Deadlines and Submission Sites

    The submission deadlines of the main conference, student workshop and
    interactive Poster/Demo sessions are approaching and their submission
    sites are now open.

    Note that the associated conferences (EMNLP and IRAL) and the
    workshops have their own submission deadlines and sites. Please see
    our web site for the details.

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    1-1) Main Conference

    * Submission deadline: February 26, 2003
    (Note that we NO LONGER require early registration of papers.)

    [Submission site]

    The electronic submission site of the ACL-2003 main conference
    (http://acl03-submissions.cs.uiuc.edu) is now open. Please consult it
    for details on the submission format and procedures.

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    1-2) Student Research Workshop

    * Submission deadline: February 26, 2003
    (Note that we NO LONGER require early registration of papers.)

    [Submission site]

    Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. Specific instructions
    and web forms for electronic submissions will be available soon on
    http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student/.
    (Note that the instructions for items to be submitted were modified.)

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    1-3) Interactive Poster/Demo Sessions

    * Submission deadline: May 1, 2003

    [Submission site]

    All papers must be submitted electronically at the web address. The
    papers must be submitted no later than 12 noon Central Time (8PM GMT)
    on May 1st, 2003. For further detail, please consult the following
    site: http://cl.aist-nara.ac.jp/staff/matsu/poster.html

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    2) Tutorials

    There will be four tutorials, to be given by leading experts in language
    and speech processing. The titles and presenters are:

      Finite State Language Processing
        Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

      Optimization, Maxent Models, and Conditional Estimation without Magic
        Dan Klein and Chris Manning (Stanford University, USA)

      Knowledge Discovery from Text
        Dan Moldovan (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
        Roxana Girju (Baylor University, USA)

      Spoken Language Processing: Separating Science Fact from Science Fiction
        Roger Moore (20/20 Speech Ltd, UK)

    The tutorials will take place on July 7.

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    3) Reduced Registration Fee and Visa Documents

    3-1) Reduced Registration Fee

    We are pleased to announce that we are planning to offer a special
    reduced registration fee for participants from developing countries
    and those with hard currency problems. We hope this will enable a
    greater number of researchers to participate in ACL-2003. While the
    actual reduced fee will be announced soon in the next Newsletter and
    our web site, the conditions for the reduced fee will be the same as
    those for the reduced ACL membership fees (See Membership in the ACL
    web site http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html) A special
    arrangement of accommodations for these participants is also being
    considered, which will be announced in the next newsletter and our web
    site.

    3-2) Visa Documents

    Participants may need to acquire a visa to attend ACL03.

    Those with nationality of European countries (with some exceptions)
    and North American countries do not need a visa. However, please check
    with your local Japanese embassy or consulate if you are not sure.

    In most countries, to acquire a visa is not complicated and does not
    take long. However, it may take longer in some countries and if you
    need help obtaining a visa, please see
    (http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/visa.html) and send an e-mail to the
    Secretariat (araki@media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp) with necessary
    information.

    The period between the dates of acceptance notification and the actual
    dates of conference/WSs is shorter than in an ordinary International
    ACL conference. If you are afraid that you have not enough time in
    obtaining a visa or official approval of traveling abroad, please
    contact the Secretariat (araki@media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp). If you
    submitted a paper to the main conference, the WSs, the interactive
    demo sessions or the student workshop, please also include the Paper
    ID and the title of your paper in your e-mail.

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    4) ACL-2003 Student Research Workshop Program Committee

    The committee of the student workshop announced a tentative list of
    the members of the Program Committee. A few more people will be added
    to the list.

    [Students]
    Slaven Bilac, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Hoojung Chung, Korea University, Korea (TBC)
    Mona Diab, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
    Ji Donghong, Institute of Infocomm Reseach, Singapore
    Ariadna Font Llitjos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    Hisanori Furumaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Krasimira Ivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
    Martin Jansche, The Ohio State University, USA
    Nobuhiro Kaji, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Hannah Kermes, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    Sang-Bum Kim, Korea University, Korea (TBC)
    Yoji Kiyota, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Taku Kudo, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
    Koji Murakami, Hokkaido University, Japan
    Hong I Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
    Noah Smith, Johns Hopkins University, USA
    Kristina Striegnitz, Saarland University, Germany
    Mary D. Taffet, Syracuse University, USA
    Mineki Takechi, FUJITSU Ltd. / Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
    Vivian Tsang, University of Toronto, Canada
    Tylman Ule, Universit Tingen, Germany

    [Non-students]
    Regina Barzilay, Cornell University, USA
    Thorsten Brants, Google, USA
    Baobao Chang, Peking University, China
    Huang Chu-Ren, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Herve Dejean, XRCE, France
    Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
    Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research Asia, China
    Iryna Gurevych, European Media Laboratory, Germany
    Daisuke Kawahara, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Alistair Knott, University of Otago, New Zealand
    Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK
    Jong-Hyeok Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (TBC)
    Lothar Lemnitzer, Tuebingen University, Germany
    Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University Department of Linguistics, USA
    Edson T. Miyamoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
    Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia
    Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and The Sofia University, Bulgaria
    Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Canada
    Bill Raymond, The Ohio State University, USA
    Kiyoaki Shirai, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
    Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC, Thailand
    Oliver Streiter, European Academie, Italy
    Naohoshi Tamura, Yokohama National University Japan
    Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania
    Hui Wang, Peking University, China
    Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Maria Wolters, Rhetorical Systems, Scotland

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    5) Call for Exhibits and Sponsorship

    We are happy to announce that 8 companies, 4 research institutes and
    13 universities have approved the Exhibits and Sponsorship programs
    and will show their products or introduce their services of interest
    to the NLP community.

    The deadline of application for the Exhibits and Sponsorship is
    approaching. Application Deadline for both: April 1, 2003

    For details, see Industrial Exhibition and Sponsorship at
    http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/ .

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