<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Final Call for Papers for NAACL HLT 2012</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>June 3 – June 8, 2012, Montreal, Canada</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://naaclhlt2012.org/">http://naaclhlt2012.org</a></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></div><div><br></div><div>Paper Deadline (both short and long papers): <b>Fri, Jan 6, 2012</b></div><div>Student Workshop Deadline: Feb 6, 2012</div><div>Demos Deadline: Feb 9, 2012</div><div>Author Response Period: Feb 22-25, 2012</div><div>Author Notification: Wed, Mar 21, 2012</div><div>Camera-ready Papers: Mon, Apr 9, 2012</div><div>Tutorials: Sun, Jun 3, 2012</div><div>Main Conference: Jun 4-6, 2012</div><div>Workshops :Jun 7-8, 2012 </div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><b>NEW</b>: ACL 2012 and NAACL 2012 will not allow double submission of papers.</div><div><br></div><div>(See Multiple Submission policy section.)</div><div><br></div><div>Also: Please DO NOT submit the same paper in long and short paper form.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>NAACL HLT 2012</b></div><div><br></div><div>NAACL is pleased to announce the North American Chapter of the Association for </div><div>Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) 2012 conference.</div><div>The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling </div><div>intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards </div><div>enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, </div><div>automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information </div><div>extraction. NAACL HLT 2012 will feature long papers, short papers, demonstrations, </div><div>and a doctoral consortium, as well as associated tutorials and workshops.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, </div><div>original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated language processing.</div><div>The short paper format may also be appropriate for a small, focused contribution, a</div><div>work in progress, a negative result, an opinion piece or an interesting application </div><div>nugget.</div><div><br></div><div>Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Phonology and Morphology, Word Segmentation</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Syntactic Tagging and Chunking</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Syntax and Parsing</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Semantics</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Summarization and Generation</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Machine Learning for Language Processing: theory, methods and algorithms</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Machine Translation</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Information Retrieval and Question Answering</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Information Extraction</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Spoken Language Processing (e.g., Spoken Term Detection, Analysis, Recognition, Synthesis, Understanding, Dialogue Systems)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* End-to-end Language Processing Systems</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Document Categorization / Topic Clustering</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Social Media Analysis and Processing</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Language Resources, Novel Evaluation Methods</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><b>Submission</b></div><div><br></div><div>Long papers: NAACL HLT 2012 submissions must describe substantial, original, </div><div>completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and </div><div>analysis should be included. The long paper deadline is January 6, 2012 by 11:59PM </div><div>Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8). Submissions will be judged on appropriateness, </div><div>clarity, originality/innovativeness, correctness/soundness, meaningful comparison, </div><div>thoroughness, significance, contributions to research resources, and replicability. </div><div>Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.</div><div><br></div><div>Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus two extra pages </div><div>for references; final versions should take into account reviewers’ comments. </div><div>Papers will be presented orally or as a poster presentation as determined by the </div><div>program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and</div><div>which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than on the quality</div><div>of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers </div><div>presented orally and those presented as poster presentations.</div><div><br></div><div>Short papers: NAACL HLT 2012 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions</div><div>must describe original and unpublished work. The short paper deadline this year is </div><div>also January 6, 2012 by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8). Characteristics of </div><div>past short papers include:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* A small, focused contribution</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* Work in progress</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* A negative result</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* An opinion piece</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>* An interesting application nugget</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions, and will be</div><div>given four (4) pages including references in the proceedings. While short papers </div><div>will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no </div><div>distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and those </div><div>presented as poster presentations. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by </div><div>at least two program committee members.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Submission Deadline:</b> The deadline for both long and short papers is January 6, 2012 </div><div>by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8).</div><div><br></div><div>Electronic Submission: Submission is electronic using the Softconf submission </div><div>software; instructions will be posted at <a href="http://naaclhtl2012.org/">http://naaclhtl2012.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Format: Long paper submissions should follow the two-column format of NAACL HLT 2012 </div><div>proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two extra pages for </div><div>references. Short paper submissions should also follow the two-column format of </div><div>NAACL HLT 2012 proceedings, and should not exceed four (4) pages including </div><div>references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word</div><div>style files tailored for this year's conference, which are available on the </div><div>conference website under <a href="http://naaclhlt2012.org/author.html">http://naaclhlt2012.org/author.html</a>. Submissions must</div><div>conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, </div><div>and they must be electronic in PDF.</div><div><br></div><div>As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names and </div><div>affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g.,</div><div>"We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...” must be avoided. Instead, use citations </div><div>such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...” Papers that do not conform to </div><div>these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post</div><div>your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.</div><div><br></div><div>Multiple-submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other</div><div>meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers </div><div>accepted for presentation at NAACL HLT 2012 must notify the program chairs by March</div><div>28, 2012 as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be </div><div>presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for </div><div>publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results</div><div>with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Authors submitting more than one paper to NAACL HLT must ensure that submissions </div><div>do not overlap significantly (> 50%) with each other in content or results. Authors </div><div>should not submit short and long versions of papers with substantial overlap in </div><div>their original contributions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>NEW INFORMATION</b>: Because of concerns of reviewer overload, the program committees </div><div>for ACL 2012 and NAACL 2012, along with the ACL Executive Board and NAACL Executive </div><div>Board have decided to not allow double submission to each other’s conferences. </div><div>Submissions will be compared across these two conferences; papers with substantial </div><div>overlap in their technical contributions that are submitted to both ACL 2012 and </div><div>NAACL 2012 will be rejected without review at the discretion of the program </div><div>committees.</div><div><br></div><div><b>General Conference Chair</b></div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM</div><div><br></div><div><b>Program Co-Chairs</b></div><div><br></div><div>Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T</div><div><br></div><div>Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University</div><div><br></div><div>Ellen Riloff, University of Utah</div><div><br></div><div> ------------</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Smaranda Muresan</div><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Library and Information Science Department</div><div>School of Communication and Information</div><div>Rutgers University</div><div>4 Hungtington St</div><div>New Brunswick, NJ, 08901</div><div><a href="mailto:smuresan@rci.rutgers.edu">smuresan@rci.rutgers.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>