<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3rd Pacific Northwest Regional NLP Workshop: NW-NLP 2014</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Submissions and Participation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The third Pacific Northwest Regional Natural Language Processing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop will be held on Thursday April 24, 2014 in Redmond, WA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We welcome submissions of extended abstracts in all aspects of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">natural language text and speech processing, computational linguistics,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and human language technologies.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As with past workshops, the goal of this one-day NW-NLP event is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to provide a less-formal setting in the Pacific Northwest to present</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">research ideas, make new acquaintances, and learn about the breadth</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">of exciting work currently being pursued in British Columbia, Oregon,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Washington, and the surrounding areas.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We encourage submissions of both completed and ongoing work. Accepted</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">submissions will be presented as either an oral presentation or a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">poster. Students and less established researchers are especially</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">encouraged to submit their work. This workshop will provide a venue</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">for feedback on early-stage research.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Further information about the workshop is provided below. We look</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">forward to your submissions and participation.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sincerely,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ann Clifton (SFU), Yashar Mehdad (UBC) and Maryam Siahbani (SFU)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">NW-NLP 2014 Co-Chairs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:nwnlp2014-contact@sfu.ca" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">nwnlp2014-contact@sfu.ca</a><br>
</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please see </span><a href="http://nwnlp2014.cs.sfu.ca/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://nwnlp2014.cs.sfu.ca/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> for additional submission</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">information.</span><br></div>
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