[Corpora-List] ACL 03 Student Research Workshop: Call for Papers

[Sandra Kübler]

*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****

Student Research Workshop at ACL2003

The 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL03)

Sapporo Convention Center, SAPPORO, JAPAN

Paper registration deadline: February 21, 2003
Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003

Email contact of the Student Workshop Co-chairs: acl03-student at umich.edu

Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established
yet.  Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between the 7th and
12th of July, 2003. The exact dates will be posted once confirmed by the
Main ACL 2003 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the Student Workshop, original, and unpublished research is invited on all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 and phonology
  morphology
  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
  dialogue systems
  approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems
  message and narrative understanding systems
  summarization
  speech recognition and synthesis
  generation

The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. See the
Main ACL 2003 page (http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003) for information.

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.  In addition, a student who has already
presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be allowed to
present again at the student session at any of these conferences, but
instead, are encouraged to submit to the main conference.

3. Submission Procedure
Paper Registration:
Registration of your submission is required. A registration form will soon
be available from the student session web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student) 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 acl03-student at umich.edu.

Paper Length:
Authors should submit their papers for review in the two-column format of
the ACL proceedings and should not exceed 6 pages. We strongly recommend
the use of ACL latex style or Microsoft Word Style files available from
the main session's web pages (http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003) These will
also soon be available from the student workshop web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student).

Separate items to be submitted:

  1) 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)

  2) 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:

A CV or letter from your advisor indicating that you meet the submission
requirements specified in Section 2.

Electronic Submissions:

Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are acceptable.
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)
PDF (.pdf)

Specific instructions for electronic submissions will be available soon on
the student workshop web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student).  Electronic submissions
are strongly preferred, and will be required for inclusion in the  final
proceedings.  Contact the co-chairs if you absolutely need to submit a
hardcopy at this stage.

4. 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)..."

5. Schedule
Submissions must be received by February 26, 2003. Late submissions 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 April 26, 2003. Detailed formatting
guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be
provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

6. Timetable
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

Contact Information:
If you need to contact the co-chairs of the Student Workshop, please use
this address: acl03-student at umich.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will
be forwarded to all three co-chairs.


Kotaro Funakoshi, Co-chair, Asia
Department of Computer Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology
koh at cl.cs.titech.ac.jp

Sandra Kuebler, Co-chair, Europe
Department of Linguistics
University of Tuebingen
kuebler at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

Jahna Otterbacher, Co-chair, North America
School of Information
University of Michigan
jahna at umich.edu