ACL'02 Preliminary Call for Papers

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

                 ACL'02 Preliminary Call For Papers

             40th Annual Meeting of the Association for
                    Computational Linguistics
                        7 - 12 July, 2002
	             Philadelphia, PA, USA

	              http://www.acl02.org

General Conference Chair: Pierre Isabelle (XRCE Grenoble, France)
Program Co-Chairs:        Eugene Charniak (Brown University, USA)
                          Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Canada)
Local Organization Chair: Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA)


The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission
of papers for its 40th Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the North
American Chapter of the ACL.  Papers are invited on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to: 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, question answering, and
information extraction; language-oriented machine learning;
corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, 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; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.


Requirements
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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. A paper accepted for
presentation at the ACL Meeting 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 title page.


Reviewing
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The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed
by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area
Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a set of Program
Committee members.  The composition of the Conference Program
Committee will be published in a later version of this call for
papers. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the
Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at
least three reviewers.


Submission Information
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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://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/
A description of the format will also be available in case you are
unable to use these style files directly.

As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be
required.  The identification page should include the paper title, the
paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors'
names, affiliations, and email addresses, one or two general topic
areas, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short
summary (up to 5 lines).  The identification page should also specify
whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences or
workshops, and if so, which ones.

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 the requirements above are subject to be
rejected without review.


Deadlines
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    Paper registration deadline:                 January  25th, 2002
    Paper submissions deadline:                  February  1st, 2002
    Notification of acceptance:                  April     8th, 2002
    Camera ready papers due:                     May      10th, 2002
    ACL'02 Conference:                           July 6th-11th, 2002


MENTORING SERVICE:

ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from
regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific
exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the
scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in
writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL
meetings. They may also have some trouble with the style of the
presentation of the material that is expected for ACL.

The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors
will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this
service for ACL'02. An author who would like to take advantage of
this service must send a draft of his/her paper to

    Aravind K. Joshi
    Room 555 Moore
    Department of Computer and Information Science
    200 South 33rd Street
    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, PA
    USA
    FAX: +1 215 898 0587

The author must send ONE copy of the paper (HARD COPY by regular mail
or by FAX) by no later than December 14th, 2001. The author should try
to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best
advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the
mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the
deadline for the submission to ACL'02 program committee (February 1,
2002).

Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as
described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to
improve their papers.

If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send
a message to Aravind Joshi (joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu)