[Corpora-List] ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Preliminary Call for Tutorial Proposals, Singapore (Aug 2nd 09)

[Diana McCarthy]

ACL-IJCNLP-09: Call for Tutorial Proposals

 
Proposals are invited for the Tutorial Program of the 47th Annual 
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th 
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the 
Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. The conference is to be 
held from August 2 to August 7, 2009. The tutorials will be held on 
Sunday, August 2.

Proposals for tutorials on all topics of computational linguistics and 
speech processing are sought. Especially encouraged are tutorials that 
educate the community about advancements in cross-disciplinary areas 
such as machine learning and cognitive approaches as they relate to  
computational linguistics, as well as tutorials that span multiple areas 
of human language processing.

Information on the tutorial instructor payment policy can be found at
http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Tutorial_teacher_payment_policy

PLEASE NOTE: Remuneration  for Tutorial presenters is fixed according 
to  the above  policy and does not cover registration fees for the  main 
conference.
 
SUBMISSION DETAILS
 
Proposals for tutorials should contain:

 1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its 
relevance to the ACL community (not more than 2 pages).

 2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the 
tutorial's core content can be covered in a three-hour slot (including a 
coffee break). In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are 
available as well.

 3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of 
the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their 
research interests and areas of expertise.

 4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the 
same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an 
estimate of the audience size.

 5. A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., 
internet access).

 
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text no 
later than February 2, 2009 to tutorials-acl09 "at" sussex "dot" ac "dot" uk

The subject line should be: "ACL-IJCNLP 2009: TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".
 

PLEASE NOTE:
1) Proposals will not be accepted by regular mail or fax.

2) You will receive an email confirmation from us that your proposal has 
been received. If you do not receive this confirmation 24 hours after 
sending the proposal, please contact us personally using both emails 
dianam "at" sussex "dot" ac "dot" uk and cqzong "at" gmail "dot" com
 
 
TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES


Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by March 2, 2009, and must 
then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the 
conference registration material by April 24, 2009. The description 
should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be included in email 
announcements and published on the conference web site, and a PDF 
version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed 
instructions will be given). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial 
materials, at least containing copies of the course slides as well as a 
bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial, by June 7, 2009.

 
IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: February 2, 2009

Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2009

Tutorial descriptions due: April 24, 2009

Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2009
 
Tutorial date: August 2, 2009

 
TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS

 
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex, UK

Chengqing Zong Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
(CASIA), China


 Please send inquiries concerning ACL-09 tutorials to tutorials-acl09 
"at" sussex "dot" ac "dot" uk



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