CFP: ACL/EACL 2001 - Student Research Workshop

[Christof Monz]

                        Call for Papers

                   Student Research Workshop
              at the joint ACL/EACL 2001 Meeting

                        July 6-11, 2001
                       Toulouse,  France

             submission deadline: February 12, 2001

The information below can also be found at this URL:
www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/

Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established
yet.  Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between 6th and
11th of July, 2001.

1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum
for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would
like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the
workshop. Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to
provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the
emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress.  For the Student
Workshop, original, and unpublished research is invited on all aspects
of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these
topic areas:

  - pragmatics
  - discourse
  - semantics
  - syntax and the lexicon
  - phonetics
  - phonology and morphology
  - interpreting and generating spoken and written language
  - linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
  - language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction
  - corpus-based language modeling
  - machine translation and translation aids
  - natural language interfaces and dialogue systems
  - approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in
    multi-media systems
  - message and narrative understanding systems

The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos.
See the Main ACL/EACL 2001 page for information:
www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html

2. Submission Requirements

Papers should describe original work in progress. The main purpose of
presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers
and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the
work. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research
wherever appropriate. The papers can have more than one author;
however, all authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for
presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available published
proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must
indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page.

3. Submission Procedure

Paper Registration

Registration of your submission is required. This can be done by
filling out a form available at the web site of the workshop:
www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/

After you fill out and submit this form, a unique ID number will be
generated and sent to you in an e-mail shortly after the paper
registration. You will then be able to use this ID number instead of
your name on the title page of the paper and in any subsequent
correspondence with the workshop co-chairs.

If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper registration or
experience problems using it, please, send email to
acl01-student at science.uva.nl

Submission format

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and
should not exceed six (6) pages, including references.  We strongly
recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style
files tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be
available from the web site:
www.science.uva.nl/~christof/acl01-student/

These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style
required for publication.  A description of the format will also be
available in case you are unable to use these style files directly.

Separate items to be submitted

Identification page
Title:
Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses
Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify)

Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
Title page
Title:
Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify)

Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

Paper

Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are
acceptable.

Electronic Submissions

If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the following
formats will be acceptable:
  - PostScript (.ps)
  - Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf)
  - Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc)
  - PDF (.pdf)

Electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the
following e-mail address: acl01-student at cis.upenn.edu

If you are submitting a hard copy of your paper, please send six
double sided copies of your paper (two copies should have the
identification page attached, four should have the title page
attached) to the following address:

Eleni Miltsakaki
Institute of Research in Cognitive Science
Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut St.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
USA

4. Reviewing Procedure

Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed
by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have the
assistance of a team of reviewers. Each submission will be matched
with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for review. The
final acceptance decision will be made based on the results of the
review.

Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make
sure you do not put the author(s) name(s) on the title page. (See
paper submission requirements for details). You should not have any
self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for
review. For example, you can't have a reference like this "We showed
previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as "Smith
previously showed (Smith, 1991)..."

5. Schedule

Submissions must be received by February 12th, 2001. Late submissions
(those arriving on or after February 13th, 2001) will be automatically
disqualified. The student workshop committee is not responsible for
postal delays or other mailing problems. For electronic submissions,
all time zones will be taken into account) Acknowledgment will be
emailed soon after receipt.  Notification of acceptance will be sent
to authors (by email) on April 20th, 2001. Detailed formatting
guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be
provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

6. Timetable

Important Dates:

Paper registration: February 5, 2001
Paper submission deadline:  February 12, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2001
Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 18, 2001

7. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please
use: acl01-student at science.uva.nl
An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Eleni Miltsakaki (Co-Chair)
Institute of Research in Cognitive Science
Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut St.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228, USA
E-mail: elenimi at linc.cis.upenn.edu
Phone: +1 215 573-6283
Fax: +1 215 573-9247

Christof Monz  (Co-Chair)
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam
Plantage Muidergracht 24
1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: christof at science.uva.nl
Phone: +31 20 525-6095
Fax: +31 20 525-5101

António Ribeiro (Co-Chair)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Departamento de Informática
Quinta da Torre
P-2825-114 Caparica, Portugal
E-mail: ambar at di.fct.unl.pt
Phone: +351 21 294-8300, ext. 10743
Fax: +351 21 294-8541