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HLT-NAACL 2006 Call for Papers<br>
Human Language Technology
Conference/North American chapter of the <br>
Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting<br><br>
June 4-9, 2006<br>
New York Marriott
at the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York<br>
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</a>General Conference Chair: Robert Moore (Microsoft Research)<br>
Program Co-Chairs:<br>
Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington)<br>
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center)<br>
Mark Sanderson (Sheffield University)<br><br>
Program Committee:<br>
Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh) <br>
Jamie Callan (CMU)<br>
Joyce Chai (Michigan State University)<br>
Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)<br>
Mark Gales (University of Cambridge)<br>
Fred Gey (Berkeley)<br>
Roxana Girju (UIUC)<br>
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (UIUC)<br>
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University) <br>
Alon Lavie (CMU) <br>
Wei Ying Ma (Microsoft Beijing)<br>
Mehryar Mohri (NYU)<br>
Marius Pasca (Google) <br>
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)<br>
Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)<br>
Owen Rambow (Columbia University) <br>
Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)<br>
Stefan Riezler (PARC) <br>
Amanda Stent (SUNY Stony Brook) <br>
Rohini Srihari (SUNY Buffalo) <br>
Michael Strube (EML Research) <br>
Christoph Tillmann (IBM Watson) <br>
Peter Turney (National Research Council Canada) <br>
Ellen Voorhees (NIST) <br>
Ralph Weischedel (BBN) <br>
Fei Xia (University of Washington)<br>
ChengXiang Zhai (UIUC) <br>
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Beijing)<br>
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Local Arrangements Chair: Satoshi Sekine (New York University)<br><br>
HLT-NAACL 2006 continues the combination of the Human Language<br>
Technology Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the<br>
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings<br>
begun in 2003. Human language technology incorporates a broad
spectrum<br>
of disciplines working towards enabling computers to interact with<br>
humans using natural language, and providing services such as speech<br>
recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text<br>
summarization, and information extraction.<br><br>
HLT-NAACL 2006 will run from Sunday June 4 through Friday June 9.
The<br>
schedule will include full papers, late-breaking (short) papers,<br>
demonstrations, as well as pre- and post-conference tutorials and<br>
workshops. The conference organization is overseen by a board<br>
representing the North American Chapter of the Association for<br>
Computational Linguistics (NAACL), HLT funding agencies in North<br>
America, as well as the SIGIR and ISCA communities.<br><br>
Topics of Interest<br><br>
The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial,<br>
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of human language<br>
processing, with special interest in synergistic combinations of<br>
language technologies (e.g., Speech with Information Retrieval,<br>
Machine Translation with Speech, Question Answering with Natural<br>
Language Processing, etc.). Topics of interest include but are
not<br>
limited to: <br><br>
- Speech processing, including: <br>
o Speech recognition and speech generation <br>
o Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information
structure <br>
and sources in speech <br>
- Information extraction, text summarization, and question
answering <br>
- Information retrieval <br>
- Computational analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics,<br>
pragmatics, discourse, style <br>
- Statistical and learning techniques for language processing,
including <br>
o Corpus-based language modeling <br>
o Lexical and knowledge acquisition <br>
- Language generation and text planning <br>
- Multilingual processing, including <br>
o Machine translation of speech and text <br>
o Cross-language information retrieval <br>
o Multi-lingual speech recognition and language
identification <br>
- Multimodal representations and processing <br>
- Evaluation, including <br>
o Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
<br>
o Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application
settings <br>
- Development of language resources, including <br>
o Lexicons and ontologies <br>
o Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks <br>
- Understanding of human communication, including <br>
o Natural language interfaces <br>
o Dialogue structure and dialogue systems <br>
o Message and narrative understanding systems<br><br>
Submission Information<br><br>
Full Papers<br><br>
Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed,<br>
unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when<br>
appropriate. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,<br>
technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference,
and<br>
interest to the attendees. As reviewing will be blind, no
information<br>
identifying the authors should be in the paper: this includes not
only<br>
the authors' names and affiliations, but also self-references that<br>
reveal authors' identities; for example, "We have previously
shown<br>
(Smith 1999)" should be changed to "Smith (1999) has
previously<br>
shown". Separate identification information is required, and will
be<br>
part of the web submission process.<br><br>
Format: Submissions must be electronic in PDF, should follow the<br>
two-column format of ACL proceedings, and should not exceed eight
(8)<br>
pages, including references. Please see the conference website for<br>
detailed typesetting specifications. Authors are strongly encouraged<br>
to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files available on the<br>
conference website.<br><br>
Reviewing: The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will<br>
be managed by a Conference Program Committee consisting of senior<br>
Program Committee Members and associated Program Committee<br>
Members. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program<br>
committee members.<br><br>
Submission procedure: A PDF file of the paper must be uploaded onto<br>
the system by 11:59pm EST of the deadline. Papers submitted after
that<br>
time will not be reviewed. Authors who cannot submit a PDF
file<br>
electronically should contact the program co-chairs<br>
(bilmes@ee.washington.edu, jencc@us.ibm.com, or<br>
m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk) before the due date to work out
alternate<br>
arrangements.<br><br>
Late-Breaking (Short) Papers<br><br>
The procedure for Short Papers submissions is identical to that for<br>
Full Papers, except that<br><br>
1. They may be accepted for oral presentation in plenary OR for <br>
presentation in a poster session;<br>
2. The deadlines are later for short papers and posters than for full
papers;<br>
3. Short papers are restricted to four (4) pages in length, using the
<br>
two-column ACL format;<br>
4. Only two reviews per submission are guaranteed. <br><br>
Multiple-Submission Policy<br><br>
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or<br>
publications must provide this information at submission time. In
the<br>
event of multiple acceptances, authors must notify the program
chairs<br>
as to the meeting they choose to present their work by February 27,<br>
2006, at the latest in order for their work to be included in the<br>
proceedings. HLT-NAACL 2006 cannot accept for publication work that<br>
will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Papers that overlap with<br>
other papers that have appeared at a conference with published<br>
proceedings must contain significant new results. Authors must
include<br>
on the title page a list of previous papers that overlap with the<br>
submission, and identify significant new results contained in the<br>
submission. The program co-chairs have the final decision about what<br>
constitutes significant new results.<br><br>
Important Dates<br><br>
December 16,
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submissions due<br>
February 23,
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notification of acceptance<br>
March 3,
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April 6,
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notification of acceptance<br>
April 17,
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full/short papers due<br>
June 4-9,
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