[Corpora-List] COLING/ACL 2006 Newsletter No. 2

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                        COLING/ACL 2006 NEWSLETTER NO. 2

              This is the official newsletter of COLING/ACL 2006

            For complete details, visit the conference web site at:

                                 www.acl2006.org
                               www.coling2006.org

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:: Important Dates
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Main conference paper submission deadline:  February 28, 2006 (Tue)	
Student research workshop paper submission deadline:  February 28, 2006 (Tue)
Submission deadlines for workshops/co-located events:  see below

Tutorials:  July 16, 2006 (Sun)	
Main conference:  July 17-21, 2006 (Mon-Fri)	
Workshops:  July 22-23, 2006 (Sat-Sun)	

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:: Table of Contents
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1. Final list of workshops/co-located events
2. Final list of tutorials
3. Main Conference Call for Papers
4. Call for Papers for Student Workshop

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:: 1. Final list of workshops/co-located events
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The final selection of COLING/ACL-2006 workshops and co-located events is as
follows. For further details, see the individual web sites as listed below.

	  ***************** PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS *****************

	      ================ JULY 15-16, 2006 ================

Title:  7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
URL:  http://sigdial06.dfki.de/
Submission deadline:  March 6, 2006

Title:  The Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and
      Related Formalisms (TAG+8)
URL:  http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/TAG+8/
Submission deadline:  April 7, 2006

Title:  INLG 2006:  International Conference on Natural Language Generation
      --- The Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Natural
      Language (SIGGEN).
URL:  http://www.ict.csiro.au/inlg2006/
Submission deadline:  April 19, 2006

	  ***************** POST-CONFERENCE EVENTS *****************

	       ================ JULY 22, 2006 ================

Title:  Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006:
      A Merged Workshop with 7th International Workshop on Linguistically
      Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) and Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III
URL:  http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/frontiers2006/
Submission deadline:  March 31, 2006

Title:  Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text
URL:  http://research.microsoft.com/~mgamon/ws3.aspx
Submission deadline:  April 7, 2006

Title:  Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP-06)
URL:  http://www.cslp06.org/
Submission deadline:  April 21, 2006

Title:  2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text
   and Knowledge
URL:  http://olp.dfki.de/olp2/olp2_cfp.htm
Submission deadline:  April 17, 2006

Title:  Information Extraction Beyond the Document
URL:  http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/result/iebd06/
Submission deadline:  March 31, 2006

	      ================ JULY 22-23, 2006 ================

Title:  2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
   (EMNLP 2006)
URL:  http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/SIGDAT/emnlp06.html
Submission deadline:  April 13, 2006

Title:  Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing 
URL:  http://www.sighan.org/swclp5/
Submission deadline:  April 12, 2006

	       ================ JULY 23, 2006 ================

Title:  Multilingual Language Resources and Interoperability
URL:   http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.dhamlri06/
Submission deadline:  April 3, 2006

Title:  Multiword Expressions:  Identifying and Exploiting Underlying
      Properties
URL:  http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/mwe-acl06.html
Submission deadline:  April 12,2006

Title:  Linguistic Distances
URL:  http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/ling-distances/
Submission deadline:  April 1, 2006

Title:  Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering
URL:  http://research.microsoft.com/~lucyv/WS7.htm
Submission deadline:  May 1, 2006

Associated summarization task:  Multilingual Summarization Evaluation
URL:  http://research.microsoft.com/~lucyv/MSE2006.htm

Title:  Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events (ARTE)
URL:  www.acl2006time.org
Submission deadline:  March 31, 2006

Title:  How can Computational Linguistics improve Information Retrieval?
URL:  http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/cliir/
Submission deadline:  March 24, 2006

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:: 2. Final list of tutorials
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The following tutorials will be offered at COLING/ACL-2006 on July 16,
2006. Further details will be posted on the conference web site in due course.

David Chiang and Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Synchronous Grammars and Tree Automata

Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Mining Unstructured Data

Michael Johnston and Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs--Research, USA)
Multimodal Language Processing

Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and
   Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University, Scotland) 
Discourse Annotation: Discourse Connectives and Discourse Relations

Joakim Nivre (Växjö University, Sweden) and Sandra Kübler (University of
   Tübingen, Germany)
Dependency Parsing

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:: 3. Main Conference Call for Papers
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Program Co-Chairs: 

    Claire Cardie (Cornell University)
    Pierre Isabelle (National Research Council of Canada)

Important Dates:

    Paper submission deadline:  February 28, 2006
    Notification of acceptance:  April 28, 2006
    Camera ready papers due:  May 26, 2006

Following up on the higly successful events at Stanford (1984) and
Montreal (1998), the International Committee on Computational
Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics will be
hosting their third joint conference in Sydney, July 17th-21st,
2006. 

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not
limited to: pragmatics, 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; information retrieval, question answering, information
extraction and text mining; 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 language resources such as annotated
corpora; and system evaluation.

We are particularly interested in bridging the gap to other related
communities, and so we especially welcome papers on speech technology
and information retrieval.  Also, for this first joint COLING/ACL
conference to be held in Asia we especially encourage papers that
address issues specific to the processing of Asian languages.

Papers can be submitted to one of two categories: the REGULAR PAPER
category or the POSTER category. Authors must designate one of these
categories at submission time. Although both categories of submmission
will be the same maximum length, regular papers will be presented a
single time to a potentially large audience during one of the parallel
paper sessions at the conference, and poster presentations will be
repeated several times before small groups of people (using paper
posters or demos) at one of the conference poster sessions. Regular
papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research
results, while posters are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing
research effort. Regular papers and poster papers will appear in
separate volumes of the proceedings.

For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and
submission details, see the conference web site:

http://www.acl2006.org/program/papers

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:: 4. Call for Papers for Student Workshop
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Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs: 

    Marine Carpuat (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
    Kevin Duh (University of Washington)

Important Dates:

    Paper submissions deadline: February 28, 2006
    Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2006
    Camera ready papers due: May 19, 2006

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers
investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have
the opportunity to receive feedback both from the general audience and from
selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments
and questions in advance of the presentation.

We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. As the
main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis is on work in
progress.

The research being presented can come from any topic areas within
computational linguistics including, but not limited to:

    * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
    * phonetics, phonology and morphology
    * linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
    * information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
    * summarization and paraphrasing
    * speech recognition, speech synthesis
    * corpus-based language modeling
    * multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
    * spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
    * multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
    * message and narrative understanding systems 

For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and
submission details, see the conference web site:

http://www.acl2006.org/program/student-workshops

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