[Corpora-List] Ann Arbor: ACL 2005 Call for Papers

Fri Nov 5 20:40:53 UTC 2004

                       ACL-05 Call For Papers
43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
                        20
                           June 25 - 30, 2005
                 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

                       http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005

            * * * Submission deadline: January 14, 2005 * * *

General Conference Chair: Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences
Institute, USA)
Program Co-Chairs: Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore,
Singapore)
                   Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Local Organization Chair: Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan, USA)

The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission
of papers for its 43rd Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the North
American Chapter of the ACL. Papers are invited on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse,
semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and
morphology; lexical semantics and ontologies; word segmentation,
tagging and chunking; parsing, generation and summarization; language
modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; linguistic,
psychological and mathematical models of language; language-oriented
information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction;
machine learning for natural language; corpus-based modeling of
language, discourse and dialogue; multi-lingual processing, machine
translation and translation aids; multi-modal and natural language
interfaces and dialogue systems; applications, tools and resources;
and evaluation of systems.

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. Submissions will be judged on
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and
relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting, including
ACL-related workshops and conferences, 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
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The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed
by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area
Chairs and associated Program Committee Members.  Final decisions on
the technical program will be made by a meeting of the Program
Co-Chairs and Area Chairs. Each submission will be reviewed by at
least three program committee members.

The area chairs for ACL-05 are:

Michael Collins (MIT, USA)
Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley, USA)
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Chin-Yew Lin (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, UK)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
Brian Roark (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
Michael Strube (EML Research, Germany)

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 tailored for this year's conference. They are available at
http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/styles/. A description of the format is
also available in case you are unable to use these style files
directly. Papers must conform to the official ACL-05 style guidelines,
and we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to
these styles including font size restrictions.

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 these
requirements will be rejected without review.

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission software to
be made available at http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005. The papers must be
submitted no later than 5pm US Eastern time January 14, 2005 (10pm GMT
January 14, 2005). Papers submitted after that time will not be
reviewed.

Deadlines
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Paper submission deadline:  January 14, 2005
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2005
Camera ready papers due:    May 2, 2005
ACL-05 Conference:          June 25 - 30, 2005

Mentoring Service
-----------------

ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from
regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific
exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the
scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in
writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL
meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential
mentors will be identified by Richard Power, who has agreed to
organize this service for ACL-05. If you would like to take advantage
of the service, send a draft of your paper to:

Richard Power
Information Technology Research Institute
University of Brighton
Watts Building
Lewes Road
Brighton BN24GJ
UK
+44 1273 642904 (office)
+44 1273 642908 (fax)
Email: Richard.Power at itri.brighton.ac.uk

To take advantage of this service, send the paper electronically to
the above email address, using pdf, ps or doc format. Alternatively,
hard copy can be sent to the postal address. The paper should arrive
before December 14, 2004. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to
your paper and the mentor will get back to you by January 7, 2005, at
least seven days before the deadline for the submission to ACL-05
program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of
the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service
for authors to improve their papers.

If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send
a message to Richard Power.

Conference Venue
----------------

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is one of the largest, most
diverse, and most prestigious centers of learning in the United
States. Ann Arbor is easy to reach by air, rail, or highway.  An
Amtrak station is located less than two miles from the University of
Michigan, and Detroit Metropolitan Airport is a brief 30-minute
drive. The conference meetings will be held at the Michigan League on
Central Campus. A conveniently located email/internet room will be
provided to participants.  Lodging will be in local hotels and
dormitories.