<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NAACL
2012 Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1.
General Invitation for Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The Student
Research Workshop is an established tradition at NAACL conferences. The
workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in
computational linguistics and natural language processing to present their work
and receive feedback from a general audience as well as from assigned mentors.
The mentors are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions
in advance of the presentation. Each accepted paper will be assigned an
established researcher as a mentor, who will provide feedback on the work to
the student at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The
goal of the workshop is to aid students at all stages of their education. To
that end, we invite papers in two separate categories:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">1.
Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for advanced students who have
decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and
broader ideas for their continuing work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">2.
Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work or work in
progress with preliminary results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">We invite
the submission of both full (6 pages) and short (4 pages) papers. The short
paper format is appropriate for a small, focused contribution, interesting
application nuggets, or a negative result. All papers will be presented at a
poster session concurrent with the main poster session.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2.
Submission Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Thesis
Proposals may contain previously published work and must include specific
research directions. They may also be in the style of a position paper that
surveys and critiques existing literature, but must suggest future research
directions. Proposals may only have one author, who must be a student.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Research Papers
must describe original completed work or work in progress. Since the main
purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other
researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the
work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever
appropriate. The first author of multi-author papers must be a student, but
additional co-authors need not be students. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Research
Papers are eligible for this workshop only if they have not been presented at
any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who
have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research Workshop may not
submit to this track as a first author. These students should instead submit to
the main conference or to the Thesis Proposal track.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">3.
Submission Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Submission
will be electronic using the paper submission web page below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">https</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">://</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">www</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">.</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">softconf</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">.</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">com</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">/</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">naaclhlt</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">2012/</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">NAACL</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">-</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">SRW</span></a><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099">2012/</span></a><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000099"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Submissions
should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed
six pages (four for short papers), including references. We strongly recommend
the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for
this year's conference. These files are available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">http</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">://</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">www</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">.</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">naaclhlt</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">2012.</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">org</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">/</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">conference</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">/</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">conference</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">.</span></a><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#000099">php</span></a><u><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;color:#000099"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">A
description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use
these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic: please use the
submission website above to submit your paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">4. Reviewing
Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The
reviewing of papers will be double-blind, so please make sure your paper shows
the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self
identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example,
rather than this: ''We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...'', use citations
such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed ...''.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">5.
Schedule<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The
papers must be submitted no later than 11:59 PST, February 6, 2012. No papers
received after this deadline will be accepted. Notification of acceptance will
be sent to authors (by email) on March 26, 2012. Detailed formatting guidelines
for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors
with their acceptance notice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Important
Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .25in .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Papers due: February 6, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .25in .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Notification of
acceptance: March 26, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .25in .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Camera ready papers due:
April 13, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .25in .5in"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">●<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Conference date: June
3-8, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The
Student Research Workshop will be held during the NAACL HLT 2012 conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">6. Contact Information</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">The
co-chairs of the Student Research Workshop can be contacted by email at: </span><a href="mailto:naaclsrw2012@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#000099">naaclsrw</span></a><a href="mailto:naaclsrw2012@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#000099">2012@</span></a><a href="mailto:naaclsrw2012@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#000099">gmail</span></a><a href="mailto:naaclsrw2012@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#000099">.</span></a><a href="mailto:naaclsrw2012@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#000099">com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Roger Levy
(Faculty Advisor)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">University
of California, San Diego, California, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Ani Nenkova
(Faculty Advisor)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Rivka
Levitan (Co-chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Columbia
University, New York, New York, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Myle Ott
(Co-chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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