[Corpora-List] Call for Short Papers for NAACL HLT 2009

[Diana Inkpen]

Reminder: Call for Short Papers for NAACL HLT 2009

http://www.naaclhlt2009.org

May 31 – June 5, 2009, Boulder, Colorado

Deadline for short paper submission – Monday, February 9, 2009
Special sessions: Large Scale Language Processing, and Speech Indexing 
and Retrieval

NAACL HLT 2009 combines the Annual Meeting of the North American 
Association for
Computational Linguistics (NAACL) with the Human Language Technology 
Conference
(HLT) of NAACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines 
working
towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using 
natural language, and
towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech
recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text 
summarization, and
information extraction. NAACL HLT 2009 will feature full papers, short 
papers, posters,
demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as pre- and 
post-conference tutorials
and workshops.

The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, 
original, and unpublished
research in disciplines that could impact human language processing 
systems. We
encourage the submission of short papers that can be characterized as a 
small, focused
contribution, a work in progress, a negative result, an opinion piece or 
an interesting
application note. A separate review form for short papers will be 
introduced this year.

NAACL HLT 2009 aims to hold two special sessions, Large Scale Language 
Processing
and Speech Indexing and Retrieval.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas, and are 
understood to be
applied to speech and/or text:

- Large scale language processing
- Speech indexing and retrieval
- Information retrieval (including monolingual and CLIR)
- Information extraction
- Speech-centered applications (e.g., human-computer, human-robot 
interaction,
education and learning systems, assistive technologies, digital 
entertainment)
- Machine translation
- Summarization
- Question answering
- Topic classification and information filtering
- Non-topical classification (e.g., sentiment/attribution/genre analysis)
- Topic clustering
- Text and speech mining
- Statistical and machine learning techniques for language processing
- Spoken term detection and spoken document indexing
- Language generation
- Speech synthesis
- Speech understanding
- Speech analysis and recognition
- Multilingual processing
- Phonology
- Morphology (including word segmentation)
- Part of speech tagging
- Syntax and parsing (e.g., grammar induction, formal grammar, algorithms)
- Word sense disambiguation
- Lexical semantics
- Formal semantics and logic
- Textual entailment and paraphrasing
- Discourse and pragmatics
- Dialog systems
- Knowledge acquisition and representation
- Evaluation (e.g., intrinsic, extrinsic, user studies)
- Development of language resources (e.g., lexicons, ontologies, 
annotated corpora)
- Rich transcription (automatic annotation of information structure and 
sources in speech)
- Multimodal representations and processing, including speech and gesture

Submission information is available at: http://www.naaclhlt2009.org

General Conference Chair:
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington

Program Co-Chairs:
Michael Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shri Narayanan, University of Southern California
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland
Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research

Local Arrangements:
James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado at Boulder


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