[Corpora-List] Student Research Workshop at ACL-05 - Call for Papers

From: Stephen Wan (swan@ics.mq.edu.au)
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 23:23:17 MET

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    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Student Research Workshop at ACL-05
    http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/

    June 25-30 2005
    University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

    1. General Invitation for Submissions

    The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL
    conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student
    researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics
    and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive
    feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback
    both from the general audience and from selected panelists --
    experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in
    advance of the presentation. One paper will be selected for the ACL-05
    Student Research Workshop Best Paper Award.

    We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the
    workshop. As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the
    emphasis is on work in progress.

    This year we will have two tracks for student papers:

            * TRACK 1: Original and unpublished research

            * TRACK 2: PhD thesis abstracts

    The research being presented can come from any topic areas within
    computational linguistics including, but not limited to:

       * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
       * phonetics, phonology and morphology
       * linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
       * information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
       * summarization and paraphrasing
       * speech recognition, speech synthesis
       * corpus-based language modeling
       * multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
       * spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
       * multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
       * message and narrative understanding systems

    The main conference also features tutorials, workshops, and
    demos. More information on these can be found at the main ACL-05 page,
    http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/

    2. Submission Requirements

    The requirements for the papers depend on which of the two
    tracks you submit to.

    TRACK 1

    The emphasis of first track is original and unpublished research.
    These papers should describe original work, still in progress. This track
    is
    aimed at students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still
    have significant research left to do. Papers should clearly indicate
    directions for future research wherever appropriate.

    Requirements:

    - The papers may have more than one author; however, all authors MUST be
    students.

    - Paper submitted for this track are eligible only if they have not been
    presented
    at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings.

    - Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session
    may not submit to this track.

    TRACK 2

    Those students in the final stages of their thesis should consider
    submitting instead to the second track for thesis abstracts. The emphasis
    is on presenting significant research towards a PhD, with the opportunity
    of getting feedback from the community before submitting the thesis. This
    track does not have the requirement that work be unpublished, and advanced
    students are also encouraged to submit their work to the main conference.

    Requirements:

    - The paper must be authored solely by the student.

    3. Submission Procedure

    Submissions for both tracks 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 are now available from
    the
    web pages of ACL-05 and the student research workshop. A description of
    the
    format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files
    directly.

    Submission must be electronic. The following formats are acceptable:
    PostScript (.ps), Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf),
    Microsoft Word ACL style (.doc) and PDF (.pdf). The electronic submissions
    should be sent in an attachment to the following e-mail address:
    acl05-student@ics.mq.edu.au
    In the body of the e-mail, please include the following
    identification information:

       * Title
       * Author(s) name(s), affiliation, and e-mail addresses
       * Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas, see list above)
       * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
       * Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify)
       * Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

       * Which track you are submitting to

    In addition, we ask you to submit a statement confirming that you
    are a student and have not presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student
    session before. You can email this statement to
    acl05-student@ics.mq.edu.au

    4. Reviewing Procedure

    Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed
    by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with 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 based on the results of the review.

    Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please make
    sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You
    should likewise not have any self-identifying references anywhere in
    the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this:
    "We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...",
    use citations such as: "Smith (2001) previously showed ...".

    5. Schedule

    Submissions must be received by February 8th, 2005. Late submissions
    will be automatically disqualified. Acknowledgment will be
    e-mailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to
    authors (by e-mail) on March 26th, 2005. Detailed formatting guidelines
    for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to
    authors with their acceptance notice.

    Important Dates:
     Paper submissions deadline: February 8th, 2005
     Notification of acceptance: March 26th, 2005
     Camera ready papers due: April 25th, 2005
     Conference date: June 25-30, 2005

    6. Travel Grants

    Funding is available for students whose work is accepted to the
    Student Research Workshop. For more information about travel grants
    (including the form), please check the ACL-2005 Student Research Workshop
    webpage, http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/ or contact the Co-Chairs of the
    Student
    Research Workshop.

    7. Contact Information

    If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop,
    please use:
    acl05-student@ics.mq.edu.au
    An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

    Chris Callison-Burch
    Edinburgh University

    Stephen Wan
    Macquarie University



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