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<div align="center"><font face="Courier New, Courier">ACL-2003 Call for
Workshop Proposals<br><br>
Sapporo, Japan<br>
July 2003<br>
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The ACL-2003 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held
in conjunction with ACL-2003 in Sapporo (Japan). We welcome proposals on
any topic of interest to the ACL community. We also encourage proposals
involving neighboring research areas such as speech technology,
information retrieval, text and data mining, biological information
extraction, computational psycholinguistics, etc. Workshops focusing on
Asian language processing and fostering communication and cooperation
between Western and Eastern (Asian) CL communities are welcomed as
well.<br><br>
Workshops of ACL-2003 will take place as pre-conference workshops (7th,
July) or as post-conference workshops (11th-12th, July).<br><br>
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find general
information on policies regarding attendance, publication, financing, and
sponsorship, as well as on specific policies on sponsorship and financial
support of SIG workshop at the following URL:
<a href="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/index-policies.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/index-policies.html</a><br><br>
Submission Details:<br><br>
Proposals for workshops should contain: <br><br>
- A title and brief description (max. 500 words) of the workshop topic.
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- A budget proposal (ACL workshops are expected to be self-financing.)
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- A description of target audience and expected number of participants.
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- The intended length (half a day to two days) <br>
- A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop
program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted.<br>
- Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the workshop
contact person<br><br>
Please submit proposals as soon as possible, by electronic mail in plain
ASCII text to the following address:
alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it<br><br>
The subject line should be: "ACL 2003 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".
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Important Dates <br><br>
Submission deadline for workshop proposals: November 28<br>
Notification of acceptance workshop proposal : December 12<br>
Workshop Dates : July 7 (pre-conference workshops); July 11-12
(post-conference workshops<br><br>
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ACL-2003 Workshop Committee<br><br>
Lori Levin (CMU, USA)<br>
Takenobu Tokunaga (TIT, Japan)<br>
Alessandro Lenci (Universita' di Pisa, Italy)<br><br>
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