2nd Call for Papers: EACL 2014

[peter ljunglöf]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

EACL 2014
The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Gothenburg, Sweden
26–30 April 2014
http://eacl2014.org/


INVITATION FOR SUBMISSIONS

The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated natural language processing, including but not limited to the following areas:

- computational and cognitive models of language acquisition and language processing
- information retrieval and question answering
- generation and summarization
- language resources and evaluation
- machine learning methods and algorithms for natural language processing
- machine translation and multilingual systems
- phonetics, phonology, morphology, word segmentation, tagging, and chunking
- pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue
- semantics, textual entailment
- social media, sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- spoken language processing and language modeling
- syntax, parsing, grammar formalisms, and grammar induction
- text mining, information extraction, and natural language processing applications

Papers accepted to TACL by 30 November 2013 will also be eligible for presentation at EACL 2014; please see the TACL website (http://www.transacl.org/) for details.


INVITED SPEAKERS

We are delighted to announce the invited speakers for EACL 2014:

- Michael Collins (Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University)
- Simon King (Professor of Speech Processing and Director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh)
- Ulrike von Luxburg (Professor for Computer Science, University of Hamburg)


IMPORTANT DATES

- Long paper submissions due: 18 October 2013
- Long paper reviews due: 19 November 2013
- Long paper author responses due: 29 November 2013
- Long paper notification to authors: 20 December 2013
- Long paper camera-ready due: 14 February 2014

- Short paper submissions due: 6 January 2014
- Short paper reviews due: 3 February 2014
- Short paper notification to authors: 24 February 2014
- Short paper camera-ready due: 3 March 2014

- EACL conference: 26-30 April 2014


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on appropriateness, clarity, originality/innovativeness, correctness/soundness, meaningful comparison, thoroughness, significance, contributions to research resources, and replicability. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Long papers must follow the two-column format of EACL 2014 (see below) and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus two extra pages for references; final versions should take into account reviewers' comments. Papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. Decisions on presentation format will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters.

The long paper submission deadline is:
- Friday, 18 October 2013, 23:59 CET.

For electronic submission of long papers, please use:
- https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/main/

Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Characteristics of short papers include a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Short papers must follow the two-column format of EACL 2014 (see below).  They will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions and will be given four (4) pages plus 2 pages for references in the proceedings. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and as posters. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members.

The deadline for submission of short papers is:
- Monday, 6 January 2014, 23:59 CET.

For electronic submission of short papers, please use:
- https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/shortpapers/


SUBMISSION FORMAT

We strongly recommend the use of EACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be in PDF.  As the reviewing will be blind, papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must 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. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete, and please ensure that no author information is encoded in the ‘properties’ of your PDF file.

Style files: 
- http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip


MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY

EACL 2014 will not accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published at other meetings or in other publications. However, papers that have been or will be submitted elsewhere may be submitted to EACL 2014 provided that this fact is stated at the time of submission. If the paper is accepted by both EACL 2014 and another meeting or publication, it must be withdrawn from one of them; furthermore, its authors must notify the program chairs, within two days of receiving the EACL acceptance notification, indicating which meeting or publication they choose for presentation of their work.


ORGANIZATION

General Chair:
- Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel

Program Chairs:
- Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Stefan Riezler, Heidelberg University, Germany

Local Chairs:
- Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Aarne Ranta, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Yvonne Adesam, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Martin Kaså, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Publication Chairs:
- Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Yannick Parmentier, University of Orléans, France

Workshop Chairs:
- Anja Belz, University of Brighton, UK
- Reut Tsarfaty, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Tutorial Chairs:
- Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Marco Baroni, University of Trento, Italy

Demo Chair:
- Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Student Research Workshop Chairs:
- Konstantina Garoufi, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Coskun Mermer, Boğaziçi University, Turkey  
- Ivan Vulić, KU Leuven, Belgium

SRW Faculty advisor:
- Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Sponsorship Chairs:
- Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters, Switzerland
- Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
- Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Publicity Chair:
- Peter Ljunglöf, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden