[Corpora-List] NAACL-HLT 2012 Last Call for Participation

Thu May 17 22:29:06 UTC 2012

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NAACL-HLT 2012 LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies 
(NAACL-HTL 2012) 
June 3 – June 8, 2012, Montreal, Canada
http://naaclhlt2012.org

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****REGISTRATION DEADLINES******

Early Registration Closed 
Late Registration Closes May 23 at 11:59pm East Coast Time

Registration: 
http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/registration/registration.php
Hotel Room Reservation: 
http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/participants/accomodation.php

The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 
Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2012) will be held June 3 - 8, 2012 at Le Centre Sheraton 
Montréal 1201, boul. René-Lévesque ouest, Montréal, (Québec), Canada. 

The conference will include three days of technical presentations (June 4-6),
one day of tutorials (June 3), and two days of workshops (June 7-8). In addition, this year the
conference will be co-located with the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics 
(June 7-8). 

[NAACL-HTL CONFERENCE PROGRAM] 
http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php

[INVITED SPEAKERS]

* Eduard Hovy, Director of the Human Language Technology Group, Information Sciences Institute of 
 the University of Southern California
* James W. Pennebaker, Centennial Liberal Arts Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University 
 of Texas at Austin

[BEST PAPER AWARDS]

Best Full Paper Award: Vine Pruning for Efficient Multi-Pass Dependency Parsing: Alexander Rush and Slav Petrov
Best Short Paper Award: Trait-Based Hypothesis Selection For Machine Translation: Jacob Devlin and Spyros Matsoukas
IBM Best Student Paper Award: Cross-lingual Word Clusters for Direct Transfer of Linguistic Structure: Oscar Täckström, Ryan McDonald, Jakob Uszkoreit

[TUTORIALS]
June 3  (http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/tutorials.php)

* 100 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Linguistics But Were Afraid to Ask* (Emily M. Bender)
* Structured Sparsity in Natural Language Processing: Models, Algorithms and Applications (André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, and Noah A. Smith)
* Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial (Mona Diab and Nizar Habash)
* Natural Language Processing in Watson 	(Alfio M. Gliozzo, Aditya Kalyanpur, James Fan)
* Variational Inference for Structured NLP Models	(David Burkett, Dan Klein)
* Processing modality and negation	(Roser Morante)
* On-Demand Distributional Semantic Distance and Paraphrasing	(Yuval Marton)
* Predicting Structures in NLP: Constrained Conditional Models and Integer Linear Programming NLP (Dan Goldwasser, Vivek Srikumar, Dan Roth)

[WORKSHOPS]
NAACL-HLT 2012 features an expanded workshop program, with 16 
workshops over two days (June 7-8). The workshops are:

*Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
*Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community
*Induction of Linguistic Structure
*Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
*Language in Social Media
*Predicting and improving text readability
*Twelfth Meeting of the ACL-SIGMORPHON Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
*BioNLP
*Computational Linguistics for Literature
*Evaluation metrics and system comparison for automatic summarization
*Future of Language Modeling for HL
*Semantic Interpretation in an Actionable Context
*Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language
*Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
*Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX)
*Statistical Machine Translation

For more information about the workshops visit: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/ws.php

[CONFERENCE VENUE]
NAACL-HTL 2012 will be held at Le Centre Sheraton  Montréal 1201, boul. René-Lévesque ouest, 
Montréal, (Québec), Canada. The  negotiated Conference discount rate expired at  May 11, 2012.
Due to the Grand Prix immediately following our event, the hotel is almost sold out. However, a few Club Level
rooms are still available and we have negotiated a discounted rate of $280 per night based on availability.
Guests can access the site to book, modify, or cancel a reservation from May 11, 2012 to June 12, 2012.
Simply follow https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1205117094&key=322B

[REGISTRATION]
Early Registration Closed
Late Registration Closes May 23 at 11:59pm East Coast Time
Registration: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/registration/registration.php

We hope to see you in Montreal! 

[ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]

General Conference Chair
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM

Program Co-Chairs
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T
Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah

Local Arrangements Chair:
Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL Business Office, acl-AT-aclweb.org
Advisory committee:
  Sabine Bergler, Concordia University
  Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal

Workshops Co-Chairs:
Colin Cherry, National Research Council of Canada
Mona Diab, Columbia University

Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Jacob Eisenstein, CMU
Radu Florian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Demos Co-Chairs:
Aria Haghighi, Prismatic
Yaser Al-Onaizan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Student Workshop Co-chairs:
Rivka Levitan, Columbia University
Myle Ott, Cornell University
Faculty Advisors:
Roger Levy, UCSD
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania

Publications:
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
William Schuler, OSU

Publicity:
Smaranda Muresan, Rutgers University

Exhibits:
Joel Tetreault, Education Testing Services

Webmaster:
Dirk Hovy, USC/ISI

Smaranda Muresan
Assistant Professor
Library and Information Science Department
School of Communication and Information
Rutgers University
4 Hungtington St
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901
smuresan at rci.rutgers.edu

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