16.281, Calls: Historical Ling/Germanic/USA; Comp Ling/USA

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Subject: 16.281, Calls: Historical Ling/Germanic/USA; Comp Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 26-Jan-2005
From: K. Aaron Smith < kasmit3 at ilstu.edu >
Subject: Germanic Philology Discussion Group

2)
Date: 27-Jan-2005
From: Stephen Wan < swan at ics.mq.edu.au >
Subject: Student Research Workshop at ACL-05

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:30:44
From: K. Aaron Smith < kasmit3 at ilstu.edu >
Subject: Germanic Philology Discussion Group

Full Title: Germanic Philology Discussion Group

Date: 27-Dec-2005 - 30-Dec-2005
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
Contact Person: K. Aaron Smith
Meeting Email: kasmit3 at ilstu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Germanic

Call Deadline: 18-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

Call for papers

The Discussion Group for Germanic Philology will be sponsoring a session at
this year's MLA convention in Washington DC. Faculty, graduate students,
and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for papers on any
linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic
language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the
extra-territorial varieties. Papers from a range of linguistic subfields,
including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
sociolinguistics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as
differing theoretical approaches, are welcome. Please submit abstracts
electronically to K. Aaron Smith at kasmit3 at ilstu.edu, or send an e-mail to
ask for more information.

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:30:49
From: Stephen Wan < swan at ics.mq.edu.au >
Subject: Student Research Workshop at ACL-05

Full Title: Student Research Workshop at ACL-05

Date: 25-Jun-2005 - 30-Jun-2005
Location: University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America
Contact Person: Stephen Wan
Meeting Email: acl05-student at ics.mq.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 08-Feb-2005

Meeting Description:

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Student Research Workshop at ACL-05
http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/

June 25-30 2005
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL) conferences. The workshop provides a
venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and
receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive
feedback both from the general audience and from selected panelists --
experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in
advance of the presentation. One paper will be selected for the ACL-05
Student Research Workshop Best Paper Award.

We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. As
the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis is on
work in progress.

This year we will have two tracks for student papers:

	* TRACK 1: Original and unpublished research

	* TRACK 2: PhD thesis abstracts

The research being presented can come from any topic areas within
computational linguistics including, but not limited to:

   * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
   * phonetics, phonology and morphology
   * linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
   * information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
   * summarization and paraphrasing
   * speech recognition, speech synthesis
   * corpus-based language modeling
   * multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
   * spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
   * multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
   * message and narrative understanding systems

The main conference also features tutorials, workshops, and demos. More
information on these can be found at the main ACL-05 page,
http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/

2. Submission Requirements

The requirements for the papers depend on which of the two tracks you
submit to.

TRACK 1

The emphasis of first track is original and unpublished research.  These
papers should describe original work, still in progress. This track is
aimed at students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still
have significant research left to do.  Papers should clearly indicate
directions for future research wherever appropriate.

Requirements:

- The papers may have more than one author; however, all authors MUST be
students.

- Paper submitted for this track are eligible only if they have not been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available published
proceedings.

- Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session
may not submit to this track.

TRACK 2

Those students in the final stages of their thesis should consider
submitting instead to the second track for thesis abstracts.  The emphasis
is on presenting significant research towards a PhD, with the opportunity
of getting feedback from the community before submitting the thesis. This
track does not have the requirement that work be unpublished, and advanced
students are also encouraged to submit their work to the main conference.

Requirements:

- The paper must be authored solely by the student.

3. Submission Procedure

Submissions for both tracks 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 are now available from the
web pages of ACL-05 and the student research workshop. A description of the
format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files
directly.

Submission must be electronic. The following formats are acceptable:
PostScript (.ps), Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf), Microsoft Word ACL
style (.doc) and PDF (.pdf). The electronic submissions should be sent in
an attachment to the following e-mail address: acl05-student at ics.mq.edu.au
In the body of the e-mail, please include the following identification
information:

   * Title
   * Author(s) name(s), affiliation, and e-mail addresses
   * Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas, see list above)
   * 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)

   * Which track you are submitting to

In addition, we ask you to submit a statement confirming that you are a
student and have not presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student  session
before.  You can email this statement to acl05-student at ics.mq.edu.au

4. Reviewing Procedure

Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by
the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with 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 based on the
results of the review.

Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please make sure
your paper shows the title, but no author information.  You should likewise
not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted
for review. For example, rather than this:
''We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...'',
use citations such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed ...''.

5. Schedule

Submissions must be received by February 8th, 2005. Late submissions will
be automatically disqualified. Acknowledgment will be  e-mailed soon after
receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by e-mail) on
March 26th, 2005. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the
final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance
notice.

Important Dates:
 Paper submissions deadline: February 8th, 2005
 Notification of acceptance: March 26th, 2005
 Camera ready papers due: April 25th, 2005
 Conference date: June 25-30, 2005

6. Travel Grants

Funding is available for students whose work is accepted to the Student
Research Workshop.  For more information about travel grants (including the
form), please check the ACL-2005 Student Research Workshop webpage,
(http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/) or contact the Co-Chairs of the Student
Research Workshop.

7. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use:
acl05-student at ics.mq.edu.au
An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Chris Callison-Burch
Edinburgh University

Stephen Wan
Macquarie University

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