[Corpora-List] Call for Papers -- NAACL HLT 2010

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Call for Papers for NAACL HLT 2010
June 1 - June 6, 2010, Los Angeles, California
http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for BOTH Full and Short paper submission: Tuesday, December 1,
2009
[New] Author response period: January 12 - 14, 2010
Notification to Authors: Monday, January 25, 2010
Final, camera-ready papers due: Wednesday, March 31, 2010

NAACL is pleased to announce the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies
(NAACL HLT) 2010 conference. 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. This year, we are especially interested in papers discussing
research with noisy data, including data from informal communications
(such as, Twitter, Blogs, Email, SMS) and processed data (such as,
Speech, OCR, Historical Data, and Machine Translation). NAACL HLT 2010
will feature full papers, short papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral
consortium, as well as pre-conference tutorials and post-conference
workshops. The conference invites the submission of full and short
papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in disciplines
that could impact human language processing systems. We also 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.

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

	- Phonology
	- Morphology (including word segmentation)
	- Part of speech tagging
	- Syntax and parsing (e.g., grammar induction, formal grammar,
algorithms)
	- Grammar Engineering
	- Word sense disambiguation
	- Lexical semantics
	- Formal semantics and logic
	- Mathematical Linguistics
	- Textual entailment and paraphrasing
	- Discourse and pragmatics
	- Knowledge acquisition and representation
	- Statistical and machine learning techniques for language
processing
	- Multilingual processing
	- Noisy data analysis
	- Large-scale language processing
	- Machine translation
	- Language generation
	- Summarization
	- Question answering
	- Information retrieval (including monolingual and CLIR)
	- Information extraction
	- Topic classification and information filtering
	- Non-topical classification (e.g., sentiment/attribution/ genre
analysis)
	- Topic clustering
	- Text and speech mining
	- Spoken term detection and spoken document indexing
	- Speech indexing and retrieval
	- Speech analysis and recognition
	- Speech synthesis
	- Speech understanding
	- Dialog(ue) systems
	- Speech-centered applications (e.g., human-computer,
human-robot interaction, education and learning systems, assistive
technologies, digital entertainment)
	- 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,
gaze, gesture, and other sensory inputs

SUBMISSION

Full papers: NAACL HLT 2010 submissions must describe substantial,
original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete
evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged
on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance,
replicability, contributions to research resources, relevance to the
conference, and interest to the attendees. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three program committee members.

Full papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus one
extra page for references, and will be presented orally or as a poster
presentation as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to
which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations
will be based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work.
There will be no distinction in the proceedings between full papers
presented orally and those presented as poster presentations.

Short papers: NAACL HLT 2010 also solicits short papers. Short paper
submissions must describe original and unpublished work. The short paper
deadline this year is also December 1, 2010 by 11:59PM Pacific Standard
Time (GMT-8). Characteristics of past short papers include:

	- A small, focused contribution
	- Work in progress
	- A negative result
	- An opinion piece
	- An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions,
and will be given four (4) pages including references in the
proceedings. While short papers will be distinguished from full papers
in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings
between short papers presented orally and those presented as poster
presentations. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least
two program committee members.
Submission Deadline: The deadline for both full and short papers is
December 1, 2010 by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8).

Electronic Submission: Submission is electronic using submission
software at: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/HLT2010

Format: Full paper submissions should follow the two-column format of
NAACL HLT 2010 proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content
plus one extra page for references. Short paper submissions should also
follow the two-column format of NAACL HLT 2010 proceedings, and should
not exceed four (4) pages including references. We strongly recommend
the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored
for this year's conference, which will be available soon on the
conference website under http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/authors.html.
Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines, which are
contained in the style files, and they must be electronic in PDF.

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must
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. In addition, please do not post your
submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.

Multiple-submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted
to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time.
Authors submitting multiple papers to NAACL HLT may not submit papers
that overlap significantly (> 50%) with each other in content or
results. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NAACL HLT 2010
must notify the program chairs by February 15, 2010 as to whether the
paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the
conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for
publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content
or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.

ORGANIZATION

General Conference Chair
Ron Kaplan, Powerset Division of Microsoft Bing

Program Co-Chairs
Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
Mary Harper, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Human Language
Technology Center of Excellence
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto

Area Chairs
Eugene Agichtein, Emory
Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM
Ciprian Chelba, Google
Mona Diab, Columbia
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University
Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Damianos Karakos, Johns Hopkins University
Philip Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland
Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stefan Oepen, University of Oslo
Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Amanda Stent, AT&T
Joel Tetreault, ETS
Jan Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
Workshop Chairs
Richard Sproat, Oregon Health & Sciences University
David Traum, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative
Technologies

Demo Chair
Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies
Institute

Tutorial Chairs
Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin
Gokhan Tur, SRI
Peter Clark, Boeing

Publications Chairs
Claudia Leacock, Butler Hill Group
Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College

Local Arrangements Chairs
David Chiang, University of Southern California, Information Sciences
Institute
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences
Institute
Jonathan May, University of Southern California, Information Sciences
Institute
Jason Riesa, University of Southern California, Information Sciences
Institute

Sponsorship Chairs
North America: Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Christy Doran, MITRE
Local: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information
Sciences Institute
Europe: Stephen Pulman, Oxford; Frederique Segond, Xerox RCE

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