<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(Apologies for cross-postings )</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline: March 27, 2009</div><div><br></div>The Sixth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC-09)<br><br>MCLC offers a less formal forum for computational linguistics researchers to get together and present ideas and research results. It is intended to be primarily for researchers from the Midwest region, but applications from all regions are welcome. We particularly welcome work in progress from graduate students and other young researchers. The first meeting of MCLC was successfully held<br>at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2004, and we're pleased to bring<br>it back to Indiana.<br><br><a href="http://cl.indiana.edu/~mclc09/">http://cl.indiana.edu/~mclc09/</a><br><br>==== Submission Guidelines ====<br><br>- Researchers should prepare a 2-page, extended abstract using the ACL<br> style files.<br>- The abstract should be anonymous.<br>- Abstracts should be emailed to <a href="mailto:mclc09@indiana.edu">mclc09@indiana.edu</a> no later than<br> March 27, 2009. The abstract should be in .pdf format.<br><br>Each abstract will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. The major<br>criteria of evaluation will be the originality, soundness, and clarity<br>of the research idea presented and the relevance of the topic to the<br>colloquium.<br><br>==== Registration ====<br><br>Registration will be free.<br><br>==== Publication ====<br><br>Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited (but not required) to<br>submit a 4-8 page full paper using the ACL style files for the<br>proceedings. Copyright of a submitted paper remains with the<br>author(s).<br><br>==== Important Dates ====<br><br>Abstract submission deadline: March 27, 2009<br>Notification of acceptance: April 6, 2009<br>Final papers due: April 24, 2009<br>Colloquium: May 2-3, 2009<br><br>==== Organizing Committee ====<br>Markus Dickinson, Indiana University<br>Sandra Kuebler, Indiana University<br><br>==== Program Committee ====<br><br>Steve Abney, University of Michigan<br>Helen Aristar-Dry, Institute for Language and Information Technology<br>Chris Brew, Ohio State University<br>Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago<br>Mike Gasser, Indiana University<br>Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJohn Goldsmith, University of Chicago<br>Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>Stefan Kaufmann, Northwestern University<br>Brett Kessler, Washington University in St. Louis<br>Larry Moss, Indiana University<br>Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota at Duluth<br>Victor Raskin, Purdue University<br>Jason Riggle, University of Chicago<br>Jim Rogers, Earlham College<br>William Schuler, University of Minnesota<br>Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>Mike White, Ohio State University<br><br>==== Contact ====<br><br>Email questions to: <a href="mailto:mclc09@indiana.edu">mclc09@indiana.edu</a><br><a href="http://cl.indiana.edu/~mclc09/">http://cl.indiana.edu/~mclc09/</a><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>