[Corpora-List] ACL-2013: call for tutorials

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ACL 2013: Call for Tutorial Proposals


Proposals are invited for the Tutorial Program of the 51th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL
2013). The main conference is to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on August
5-7, 2013. The tutorials are scheduled for Sunday, August 4.


ACL 2013 seeks proposals for tutorials on all topics of computational
linguistics, broadly conceived to include areas such as cognitive
modelling of language processing and psycholinguistics, dialogue and
interactive systems, discourse, coreference and pragmatics, text
mining and information extraction, information retrieval and question
answering, language resources, lexical semantics and ontologies,
machine translation, multilinguality, NLP applications NLP for social
media, semantic processing, sentiment analysis, opinion mining, text
classification, spoken language processing, summarization and
generation, syntax and parsing, tagging and chunking, word
segmentation, and evaluation methods. Especially encouraged are tutorials that
educate the community about advancements in cross-disciplinary areas
such as machine learning, knowledge mining, and legal applications.
Information on the payment for tutorial instructors can be found in the ACL
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, affiliations 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).


Submission is electronic, using the softconf submission software (URL
to be announced in subsequent versions of this call).  The submission
deadline is Wednesday, 6 March 2013.




TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES


Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by Wednesday, April 3, 2013, and must then
provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference
registration material by Wednesday, May 15, 2013. 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, 2013.


IMPORTANT DATES


  * Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 6, 2013
  * Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2013
  * Tutorial descriptions due: May 15, 2013
  * Tutorial course material due: June 7, 2013




TUTORIAL CHAIRS


  * Johan Bos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  * Keith Hall, Google


Please send inquiries concerning ACL 2013 tutorials to johan dot bos at rug anotherdot nl.



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