EACL 2006 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: on-line submission now open!

[Shuly Wintner]

                    EACL 2006 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

       11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for
                        Computational Linguistics

                           April 3rd - 7th 2006
                              Trento, Italy

                          http://eacl06.itc.it/

            * * * Submission deadline: November 8, 2005 * * *
     * * * On-line submission now open at http://eacl06.itc.it/ * * *


The European Association of Computational Linguistics invites the
submission of papers for its 11th Meeting. Papers are invited on
substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of
computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:

- phonetics, phonology and morphology;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- syntax, semantics and grammars;
- pragmatics, discourse and dialogue;
- the lexicon and ontologies;
- parsing and grammatical formalisms;
- generation, text planning and summarization;
- language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding;
- mathematical models of language;
- information retrieval, text categorisation, question answering, and
information extraction;
- paraphrasing and textual entailment;
- machine learning for natural language;
- multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- language-oriented applications, tools and resources;
- evaluation methodology.


Requirements

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed
work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state
of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete
evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and
relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting, including
EACL-related workshops, cannot be presented or have been presented at
any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings.
Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must
indicate this on the submission page.


Reviewing

The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed
by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area
Chairs and a team of reviewers. Final decisions on the technical
program will be made by the Conference Program Committee.


Submission Information

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and
should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style
files tailored for this year's conference. They are available at
http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm. A description of the
format is also available in case you are unable to use these style
files directly. Papers must conform to the official EACL-06 style
guidelines, and we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not
conform to these styles including font size restrictions.  Submissions
should be in PDF format and must include all fonts, so that the paper
will print (not just view) anywhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should 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.

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission software
available via a link at
http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm. The papers must be
submitted no later than 11:59pm (23:59) GMT November 8th, 2005.
Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed.


Important dates

Paper submission deadline:  November 8, 2005
Notification of acceptance: January 12, 2006
Camera ready papers due:    February 6, 2006
Workshops and tutorials:    April 3-4, 2006
EACL 2006 Conference:       April 5-7, 2006

Program Co-Chairs:
      Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, UK)
      Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
Program Committee:
      Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
      Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, US)
      Marcello Federico (ITC, Italy)
      Rob Gaizauskas (Sheffield, UK)
      Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
      Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK)
      Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK)
      Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)
      Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
      Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Local Organisers:
      Alberto Lavelli (ITC-IRST, Italy)
      Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Italy)


POSTER AND DEMO SESSION

EACL 2006 will also include a session for posters and system
demonstrations. POSTERS should present work in progress, project
status reports, unevaluated results or system summaries.
DEMONSTRATIONS should showcase implemented systems in any area of
computational linguistics. Posters and demos will be allocated 4 pages
in a companion volume in the conference proceedings.

For the full call for posters/demos, visit the EACL 2006 web site.

Poster/demo submission deadline:
      December 6, 2005

Poster/demo co-chairs:
      Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
      Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary)


WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

There are separate calls for both Workshop and tutorial proposals,
please visit the EACL 2006 web site.

Workshop proposals submission deadline: October 1, 2005

Workshop co-chairs:
      Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
      Caroline Sporleder (University of Edinburgh)


Tutorial proposals submission deadline: November 25, 2005

Tutorials co-chairs:
      Alexis Nasr   (Universite Paris 7, France)
      Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci, University, Turkey)
      Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK)


STUDENT SPONSORSHIPS
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The EACL has a limited number of student sponsorships
available to student participants of the EACL 2006 main
conference, the EACL 2006 poster/demo session and/or
the EACL 2006 student session.

Priority is given to students from Eastern Europe and more
generally, to students from countries with hard currency problems
(within the geographical area covered by EACL).

A request for student sponsorship for EACL 2006 should include
the following information:

o Name, email address, affiliation and status (PhD year etc.)
     of the candidate
o Source and amount of yearly income
o Letter of motivation
o Proof of student status
o Copy of acceptance letter from programme chair / student workshop
     chair or poster/demo chair
o Letter of recommendation from supervisor
o Overview of the estimated costs

Requests for student sponsorships can be directed to the
EACL at secretary at eacl.org
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