[Corpora-List] Call for Papers, Research notes and Demos: EACL-03

[Ann Copestake]

EACL-03 Call for Papers, Research notes and Demos

11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics

Budapest, Hungary, April 12-17, 2003.

1. Papers

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all
aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:

     pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon;
     phonetics, phonology and morphology;
     interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
     linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language;
     language-oriented information retrieval, question answering,
               summarization and information extraction;
     language-oriented machine learning;
     corpus-based language modeling;
     multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
     natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
     approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities
               in multi-media systems;
     message and narrative understanding systems;
     tools and resources;
     evaluation of systems and evaluation methodology

Papers on tools and resources for less-studied European and
African/Mediterranean languages are particularly encouraged.

Requirements

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion
of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results
should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting
cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available published proceedings.  Papers that are being submitted to other
conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers
that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Reviewing

The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an
international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs (to be
announced). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program
Committee.

Submission Information

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should
not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use
of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files available via the
conference website, http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. A description of the
format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files
directly.  As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...".

Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected
without review.

Submission Procedure

You must submit a notification of submission by filling out intention-to-submit
form at a designated website. All papers must be submitted electronically in
PostScript format.  Further details of the submission procedure will be
available on the conference website.

Deadlines

     Paper registration deadline: November 10, 2002
     Paper submissions deadline: November 15, 2002
     Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2003
     Camera ready papers due: February 15, 2003
     EACL-03 Conference: April 12-17, 2003


2. Research Note and Demo Sessions

The EACL-03 meeting will include Research Note Sessions and Demo Sessions.

RESEARCH NOTES should present work in progress, project status
reports, unevaluated results or system summaries (with or without
demos). In the programme of the conference there will be sessions
reserved for Research Notes. Presentations of Research Notes will be
shorter than regular papers' ones.  Each Research Note will be
allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings.

We also encourage the submission of SOFTWARE DEMOS related to any
areas of computational linguistics. Areas of interest include, but are
not limited to:
  * Natural language processing systems, including
      o Dialog systems and interfaces
      o Machine translation systems and translation aids
      o Message and narrative understanding systems.
      o Language-oriented information retrieval and information
        extraction systems
  * Application systems using embedded language technology components
  * Reusable components (speech recognizers, parsers, generators, ...)
  * Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research
  * Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational
    linguistics research
  * Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts

Demos of tools for less-studied European and African/Mediterranean languages
are particularly encouraged.

Developers should outline the design of their system and provide
sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality,
and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites
running the demo preview will also be helpful.

Research notes and demo submissions will be reviewed by an international
panel.

Format for Submission

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and
should not exceed four (4) pages, including references. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style
files available via the conference website, http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03.
A description of the format will also be available in case you are
unable to use these style files directly.

Submission Procedure

You must submit a notification of submission by filling out
intention-to-submit form at a designated website. All papers must be
submitted electronically in PostScript format.  Further details of the
submission procedure will be available on the conference website.

Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer
equipment is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so,
please specify desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory
capacity, operating system and other software needed in order to run
the demo.  Also mention name and contact information of systems
operations specialist. If you are bringing your own laptop, you should
instead request a video projector if you need one, providing details
about PC type, screen resolution, etc.

Deadlines

     Research Note registration deadline: December 1, 2002
     Research Note submissions deadline: December 6, 2002
     Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2003
     Camera ready papers due: February 15, 2003
     EACL-03 Conference: April 12-17, 2003

3 Other CFPs and Additional Information

     Separate CFPs have been issued for Workshop Proposals and the EACL
Student Workshop

     For additional information, see the web site for the conference:
     http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03
     which will provide additional details as they become available.