[Corpora-List] ACL03: 2nd Announcement

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

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          2nd Announcement of 41st ACL (ACL03)
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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/)
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  We are happy to announce that the members of the PC are finalized and
that the CFP of the student session is now available. We would also like to
remind you that the deadline for workshop proposals is November 28.


[1] Call for Workshop Proposals
(For details, see http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/)

      Important Dates
         Submission deadline for workshop proposals: November 28, 2002
         Notification of acceptance workshop proposal: December 12, 2002
         Workshop Dates: July 7, 2003 (pre-conference workshops)
                       July 11-12, 2003 (post-conference workshops)

[2] Areas chairs of the PC are as follows:

       [Co-Chairs of the PC]

       Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
       Dan Roth (University of Illinois, U.S.A.)

       [Area Chairs]

        Discourse and Dialogue
            Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
        Computational Psycholinguistics; Lexical Semantics and Ontologies
            for NLP
            Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
        Syntax, Semantics, Grammars, Morphology and Phonology:
            Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
        Speech, Language Modeling, Stat. Methods
            Chris Manning (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
        NL Applications
            Koiti Hasida (Cyber Assist Research Center, Japan)
            Ming Zhou (Microsoft, China)
        MT and Multilinguality
            Kevin Knight (Information Sciences Institute, U.S.C.)
        Word Segmentation, Shallow Parsing, Tagging and Chunking
            Thorsten Brants (Xerox PARC, U.S.A.)
        Generation and Parsing
            Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
        Machine Learning for NL
            Raymond J. Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.)
        Information Extraction/Information Retrieval
           Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
        Language Resources
           Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea)

[3] CFP of the student session
(For details, see http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/)

       Important Dates for the Student Session
         Paper registration: February 21, 2003
         Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003
         Notification of Acceptance: April 26, 2003
         Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 5, 2003

      Co-chairs:

        Sandra Kuebler (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
        Kotaro Funakoshi (Ph.D. student of Tokyo Institute of Technology,
                          Japan)
        Jahna C Otterbacher (Ph.D student of University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
        Chris Brew (The Ohio State University)

      Contact address: acl03-student at umich.edu

[4] We will provide exhibition booths with full Internet access at ACL03
and would like to encourage groups in academic institutes as well as
industrial sponsors to exhibit their most recent research and development
results.  Information on industrial support and exhibitions will be
available on our Web site soon.

[5] [Collocated  Events]
We would be happy to help those wishing to   arrange events in conjunction
with ACL03. For information on available venues and local facilities for
gatherings and meetings, please contact:

        Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
        araki at media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp


[6] Posters and brochures are now available from our Web site.

[7] Deadlines

    November 28, 2002: Workshop Proposal
    December 16, 2002: Tutorial Proposal
    February 26, 2003: Paper submission
                                (Main conference and Student Workshop)
    May 1, 2003: Interactive Posters and Demo
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