<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">==============================================================================================<br>NAACL-HLT 2012 LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br><br>North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies <br>(NAACL-HTL 2012) <br>June 3 – June 8, 2012, Montreal, Canada<br><a href="http://naaclhlt2012.org/">http://naaclhlt2012.org</a><br><br>==============================================================================================<br><br>****REGISTRATION DEADLINES******<br><br>Early Registration Closed <br>Late Registration Closes May 23 at 11:59pm East Coast Time<br><br><br>Registration: <br><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/registration/registration.php">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/registration/registration.php</a><br>Hotel Room Reservation: <br><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/participants/accomodation.php">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/participants/accomodation.php</a><br><br><br>The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: <br>Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2012) will be held June 3 - 8, 2012 at Le Centre Sheraton <br>Montréal 1201, boul. René-Lévesque ouest, Montréal, (Québec), Canada. <br><br>The conference will include three days of technical presentations (June 4-6),<br>one day of tutorials (June 3), and two days of workshops (June 7-8). In addition, this year the<br>conference will be co-located with the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics <br>(June 7-8). <br><br>[NAACL-HTL CONFERENCE PROGRAM] <br><a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php</a><br><br><br>[INVITED SPEAKERS]<br><br>* Eduard Hovy, Director of the Human Language Technology Group, Information Sciences Institute of <br> the University of Southern California<br>* James W. Pennebaker, Centennial Liberal Arts Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University <br> of Texas at Austin<br><br><br>[BEST PAPER AWARDS]<br><br>Best Full Paper Award: Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing: Alexander Rush and Slav Petrov<br>Best Short Paper Award: Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection For Machine Translation: Jacob Devlin and Spyros Matsoukas<br>IBM Best Student Paper Award: Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure: Oscar Täckström, Ryan McDonald, Jakob Uszkoreit<br><br>[TUTORIALS]<br>June 3 (<a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/tutorials.php">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/tutorials.php</a>)<br><br>* 100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Linguistics But Were Afraid to Ask* (Emily M. Bender)<br>* Structured Sparsity in Natural Language Processing: Models, Algorithms and Applications (André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, and Noah A. Smith)<br>* Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial (Mona Diab and Nizar Habash)<br>* Natural Language Processing in Watson <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Alfio M. Gliozzo, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan)<br>* Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(David Burkett, Dan Klein)<br>* Processing modality and negation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Roser Morante)<br>* On-Demand Distributional Semantic Distance and Paraphrasing<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Yuval Marton)<br>* Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming NLP (Dan Goldwasser, Vivek Srikumar, Dan Roth)<br><br>[WORKSHOPS]<br>NAACL-HLT 2012 features an expanded workshop program, with 16 <br>workshops over two days (June 7-8). The workshops are:<br><br>*Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics<br>*Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community<br>*Induction of Linguistic Structure<br>*Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications<br>*Language in Social Media<br>*Predicting and improving text readability<br>*Twelfth Meeting of the ACL-SIGMORPHON Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology<br>*BioNLP<br>*Computational Linguistics for Literature<br>*Evaluation metrics and system comparison for automatic summarization<br>*Future of Language Modeling for HL<br>*Semantic Interpretation in an Actionable Context<br>*Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language<br>*Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies<br>*Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX)<br>*Statistical Machine Translation<br><br>For more information about the workshops visit: <a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/ws.php">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/ws.php</a><br><br>[CONFERENCE VENUE]<br>NAACL-HTL 2012 will be held at Le Centre Sheraton Montréal 1201, boul. René-Lévesque ouest, <br>Montréal, (Québec), Canada. The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; "> negotiated Conference discount rate expired at May 11, 2012.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; ">Due to the Grand Prix immediately following our event, the hotel is almost sold out. However, a few Club Level</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; ">rooms are still available and we have negotiated a discounted rate of $280 per night based on availability.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; "><b>Guests can access the site to book, modify, or cancel a reservation from May 11, 2012 to June 12, 2012</b>.<br>Simply follow <a href="https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1205117094&key=322B" style="color: rgb(38, 34, 98); ">https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1205117094&key=322B</a></span><br><br><br>[REGISTRATION]<br>Early Registration Closed<br>Late Registration Closes May 23 at 11:59pm East Coast Time<br>Registration: <a href="http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/registration/registration.php">http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/registration/registration.php</a><br><br>We hope to see you in Montreal! <br><br><br>[ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]<br><br>General Conference Chair<br>Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM<br><br>Program Co-Chairs<br>Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T<br>Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University<br>Ellen Riloff, University of Utah<br><br><br>Local Arrangements Chair:<br>Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Office, <a href="http://acl-AT-aclweb.org/">acl-AT-aclweb.org</a><br>Advisory committee:<br> Sabine Bergler, Concordia University<br> Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal<br><br>Workshops Co-Chairs:<br>Colin Cherry, National Research Council of Canada<br>Mona Diab, Columbia University<br><br>Tutorials Co-Chairs:<br>Jacob Eisenstein, CMU<br>Radu Florian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center<br><br>Demos Co-Chairs:<br>Aria Haghighi, Prismatic<br>Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center<br><br>Student Workshop Co-chairs:<br>Rivka Levitan, Columbia University<br>Myle Ott, Cornell University<br>Faculty Advisors:<br>Roger Levy, UCSD<br>Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania<br><br>Publications:<br>Nizar Habash, Columbia University<br>William Schuler, OSU<br><br>Publicity:<br>Smaranda Muresan, Rutgers University<br><br>Exhibits:<br>Joel Tetreault, Education Testing Services<br><br>Webmaster:<br>Dirk Hovy, USC/ISI<br><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; "><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"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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