<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><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>NAACL-HLT 2012 Call for Demonstrations<br><br>The NAACL-HLT 2012 Program Committee invites proposals for Demonstrations. We encourage submissions from early prototype demonstrations to mature production-ready systems;<br>of particular interest are demos which can be openly used by NAACL-HLT attendees from the conference website before and during the conference. All accepted demos will present a<br>brief "advertisement" for the demo during a plenary session and actually show off their systems at a later designated demo session (with an optional poster).<br><br>= Areas of Interest<br>Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following types of systems:<br><br>End-to-end systems:<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Mobile applications in any language technology area<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Speech-based systems (e.g., recognition, text-to-speech)<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Machine translation<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Question Answering<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dialogue interfaces (e.g., Siri++)<br><br>Systems aiding research and development:<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Data visualization<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Error analysis tools<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>System evaluation<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Text mining for knowledge acquisition (or data mining)<br><br>Systems supporting learning or education:<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Visual interactive aids for students<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Tutorial agents<br><br>= Format for Submission<br><br>Please use the main ACL paper style (<a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/downloads/naaclhlt2012.pdf">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/downloads/naaclhlt2012.pdf</a>). The entire proposal must not be more than four pages. Please note that no hardware or software will be provided by the local organizer.<br>Demo proposals consist of the following parts:<br> -<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>An extended abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, including title, authors, full contact information, references, and acknowledgements.<br> -<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a Web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).<br><br>= Submissions Procedure<br><br>Proposals must be submitted electronically by February 9, 2012 using submission software that will be available at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/papers/">https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/papers/</a>.<br><br>= Further Details<br><br>Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints. Accepted submissions will be allocated four pages in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.<br><br>Further details on the date, time, and format of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. Please send any inquiries to the demonstration co-chairs Aria Haghighi (<a href="mailto:me@aria42.com">me@aria42.com</a>) or Yaser Al-onaizan (<a href="mailto:onaizan@us.ibm.com">onaizan@us.ibm.com</a>).<br><br>= Important Dates<br><br>February 9, 2012: Submission deadline<br>March 27, 2012:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Notification of acceptance<br>April 9, 2012: Submission of camera ready copies of materials for the proceedings<br>June 3-8, 2012:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Conference<br><br>All submissions or camera-ready copies of materials are due by 11:59pm PST on the dates specified above.<br><br>-------------------------------------------<br>Smaranda Muresan<br>Assistant Professor<br>Library and Information Science Department<br>School of Communication and Information<br>Rutgers University<br>4 Hungtington St<br>New Brunswick, NJ, 08901<br><a href="mailto:smuresan@rci.rutgers.edu">smuresan@rci.rutgers.edu</a><br><br><br><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>