26.4495, Calls: Comp Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:52:38
From: Wei Xu [xwe at cis.upenn.edu]
Subject: NAACL HLT 2016

 
Full Title: NAACL HLT 2016 

Date: 12-Jun-2016 - 17-Jun-2016
Location: San Diego, California, USA 
Contact Person: Ani Nenkova
Meeting Email: naacl2016-program at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2016) 

NAACL HLT 2016 will feature long papers, short papers, demonstrations, and a student research workshop, as well as associated tutorials and workshops. In addition, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted for the new Transactions of the ACL journal (http://www.transacl.org).

Call for Papers:

The conference invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated language processing and creation of language resources. The short paper format may also be appropriate for a small, focused contribution, a work in progress, a negative result, an opinion piece or an interesting application nugget.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the study of the following language areas, tasks, genres and approaches to language analysis:

Linguistic Areas of Study:

- Discourse
- Morphology
- Phonology and phonetics
- Pragmatics
- Prosody
- Semantics
- Tagging, chunking, syntax and parsing

Application Tasks:

- Dialogue and interactive systems, automatic speech recognition other spoken language processing
- Image/video description generation
- Language understanding, language generation, summarization, information extraction, question answering, information retrieval, machine translation, recognizing textual entailment and semantic equivalence, relation extraction, text simplification
- Mathematical models of language
- Predicting speaker/writer characteristics
- Sentiment analysis, text categorization, text quality prediction, style analysis and lexicon induction
- Spelling and grammar correction and computer-aided learning
- Tokenization/word segmentation for Chinese and similar languages and word segmentation in spoken utterances

Research Goals:
- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistic research
- Corpus creation and evaluation
- End-user application building
- Integrate language and other modalities
- Linguistic theories for NLP
- Machine learning for NLP
- Sociolinguistic research

Approaches to Language Processing Tasks:

- Machine learning
- Optimization
- Exploiting multilingual resources
- Modeling linguistic knowledge (e.g., grammars)
- Algorithm development for NLP
- Corpus/data analysis

Genres:

- Biological and medical text (BioNLP)
- Chat and Email (private unedited written dialog)
- Literature
- News
- Social media
- Spoken dialog and other spoken genres
- Search log analysis

Languages:

- Low-Resource Languages
- Morphologically rich languages
- Other specific living language(s)

Important Dates:

- Deadline for BOTH Long and Short paper submission: Jan 6, 2016
- Author response period: Feb 10–15, 2016
- Notification to authors: Mar 2, 2016

All deadlines are 11:59 pm Pacific Time. Please DO NOT submit the same paper in long and short paper form.

Submissions:

Papers should be submitted electronically using the Softconf START conference management system at the following URL:

https://www.softconf.com/naacl2016/papers

The site will be open for accepting submissions one month before the conference deadline.

Contact:

Program Co-Chairs:

- Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
- Owen Rambow, Columbia University

Email: naacl2016-program at googlegroups.com

General Chair:

Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute




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