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style="COLOR: black">LAST CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS</SPAN></B><SPAN
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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Proposal submission
deadline: November 15, 2002<SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 6pt 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">EACL
2003<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H1>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 6pt 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">11th
Conference of the European Chapter<BR>of the Association for Computational
Linguistics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The
EACL 2003 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for EACL
2003, which is to be held in the interval April 12 - 17, 2003 in the Agro Hotel,
Budapest, Hungary. The tutorials for EACL 2003 will be held on April 12 in two
sessions (morning and afternoon). </SPAN></H3>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Tutorial speakers
will have an opportunity to disseminate state-of-the-art techniques and
approaches in the areas of their expertise to the CL/NLP research community.
Members from all segments of the CL/NLP and related fields are invited to submit
proposals for review. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Each tutorial
should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in three hours of
lecture time (including the break). </SPAN>However, in exceptional cases
six-hour tutorial slots are possible as well.</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Submission
Details</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Proposals for
tutorials should be no more than four pages in length, and should contain:
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">a brief but technical description of the
tutorial topic; <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">the names, postal addresses, phone
numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with brief descriptions
of their technical background; <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">the name of one tutorial speaker with an
email address as the primary contact; <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">a list of audio-visual and computer
requirements and special room requirements, if there are any.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI></UL>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Proposals should
be submitted by electronic mail, in any of the forms (rtf, pdf or ps) no later
than 15 November 2002</SPAN><SPAN lang=IT
style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: IT">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Please submit
your proposals and any inquiries </SPAN>(subject line should be: "EACL-03
TUTORIAL PROPOSAL") <SPAN style="COLOR: black">to: </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Dan Cristea - </FONT><A
href="mailto:dcristea@infoiasi.ro"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>dcristea@infoiasi.ro</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">University
“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Faculty of
Computer Science<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">16, Berthelot
St., 6600 - Iasi, Romania<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Tutorial
Speakers’ Responsibilities</B> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">1. Tutorial
speakers must provide descriptions of their tutorials for inclusion in the
Conference Registration. The description must be provided as follows:
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">an rtf and a pdf version that fits onto
1/2 page;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">an ASCII version that can be included with
email announcements; <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">an HTML version that can be included on
the Conference home page. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">2. Finances:
</SPAN>The current ACL policy is that tutorials are reimbursed at the following
rate: $500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15 per
registrant in excess of 50. Note that this is per tutorial, not per presenter:
multiple presenters will split the proceeds, the default assumption being an
even split. The ACL does not usually cover travel expenses except where the
presenter(s) cannot get them through the usual mechanisms: for ACL members we
assume that they would be coming to the meeting anyway. For people who are not
ACL members, we would expect to pay for costs that they cannot get reimbursed
elsewhere.<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN>If they attend the conference,
tutorial presenters must register for EACL03.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">3. Tutorialists
will prepare all the tutorial materials. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>An up-to-date version
of the Call for Tutorial Proposals is available at the address: <A
href="http://www.infoiasi.ro/~dcristea/eacl2003-tutorials/">http://www.infoiasi.ro/~dcristea/eacl2003-tutorials/</A></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Important
Dates</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Submission
Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: 15 November 2002<BR>Notification of acceptance
of Tutorial Proposals: 29 November 2002<BR></SPAN>Tutorial descriptions due to
Tutorial Chair: 12 January 2003 <BR>Tutorial course material due to Tutorial
Chair: 9 February 2003 <BR></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Tutorial date 12 April 2003 </FONT><BR
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