[Corpora-List] ACL2003 Student Research Workshop: Extended Deadline

Wed Feb 26 16:56:28 UTC 2003

***** EXTENDED DEADLINE: Papers due March 15th *************

Student Research Workshop at ACL2003

The 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL03)

Sapporo Convention Center, SAPPORO, JAPAN

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Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2003

Email contact of the Student Workshop Co-chairs: acl03-student at umich.edu

Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established
yet.  Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between the 7th
and 12th of July, 2003. The exact dates will be posted once confirmed
by the Main ACL 2003 Conference Program Committee.

1. General Invitation for Submissions
The Student Session is an established tradition at ACL conferences.
This year it will take the form of a Student Workshop. The main
purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for student researchers
who are investigating various areas related to Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would like to invite
student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Seeing that
the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the
participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of
the workshop will be on work in progress. For the Student Workshop,
original, and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of
computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these
topic areas:

   pragmatics
   discourse
   semantics
   syntax and the lexicon
   phonetics and phonology
   morphology
   linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
   language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction
   corpus-based language modeling
   machine translation and translation aids
   natural language interfaces
   dialogue systems
   approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in
multi-media systems
   message and narrative understanding systems
   summarization
   speech recognition and synthesis
   generation

The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. See
the Main ACL 2003 page (http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003) for information.

2. Submission Requirements
Papers should describe original work in progress. 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 papers can have more than one author; however, all
authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for presentation at the
Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers
that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this
immediately after the title material on the first page.  In addition,
a student who has already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student
session will not be allowed to present again at the student session at
any of these conferences, but instead, are encouraged to submit to the
main conference.

3. Submission Procedure

Paper Submission:
Submissions for this year's session will take place online.  A
submission is available from the student session web pages.  If you
are unable to use the on-line form for paper submission or experience
problems using it, please, send email to acl03-student at umich.edu.

Paper Length:
Authors should submit their papers for review in the two-column format
of the ACL proceedings and should not exceed 6 pages. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL latex style or Microsoft Word Style files
available from the main session's web pages
(http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003) These will also soon be available
from the student workshop web pages
(http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/acl03-student).

Separate items to be submitted:

   1) Identification page:
      Title:
      Paper ID code (generated at paper registration)
      Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses
      Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
      Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
      Word Count: excluding title page and references
      Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify)
      Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

   2) Title page
      Title:
      Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
      Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
      Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
      Word Count: excluding title page and references
      Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify)
      Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
      Paper:

A CV or letter from your advisor indicating that you meet the
submission requirements specified in Section 2.

Electronic Submissions:

Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are acceptable.
If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the following
formats will be acceptable:

PostScript (.ps)
Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf)
Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc)
PDF (.pdf)

Specific instructions for electronic submissions are now available at
http://tanaka-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~koh/acl03-student/submission.php.

Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, and will be required
for inclusion in the final proceedings.  Contact the co-chairs if you
absolutely need to submit a hardcopy at this stage.

4. Reviewing Procedure
Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed
by Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance
of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed
panel of student and senior researchers for review. The final
acceptance decision will be made based on the results of the review.

Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make
sure you do not put the author(s) name(s) on the title page. (See
paper submission requirements for details). You should not have any
self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for
review. For example, you can't have a reference like this "We showed
previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as "Smith
previously showed (Smith, 1991)..."

5. Schedule
Submissions must be received by February 26, 2003. Late submissions
will be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is
not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. For
electronic submissions, all time zones will be taken into account.
Acknowledgement will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of
acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on April 26, 2003.
Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final
camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance
notice.

6. Timetable
Important Dates for the Student Session:

Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: April 26, 2003
Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 5, 2003

Contact Information:
If you need to contact the co-chairs of the Student Workshop, please
use this address: acl03-student at umich.edu. An e-mail sent to this
address will be forwarded to all three co-chairs.

Kotaro Funakoshi, Co-chair, Asia
Department of Computer Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology
koh at cl.cs.titech.ac.jp

Sandra Kuebler, Co-chair, Europe
Department of Linguistics
University of Tuebingen
kuebler at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

Jahna Otterbacher, Co-chair, North America
School of Information
University of Michigan
jahna at umich.edu