28.129, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-129. Sat Jan 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.129, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 10:55:22
From: Allyson Ettinger [aetting at umd.edu]
Subject: Student Research Workshop at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Full Title: Student Research Workshop at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: SRW at ACL 2017 

Date: 30-Jul-2017 - 04-Aug-2017
Location: Vancouver, Canada 
Contact Person: Allyson Ettinger
Meeting Email: aclsrw2017-organizers at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Apr-2017 

Meeting Description:

The ACL 2017 Student Research Workshop (SRW) will be held in conjunction with
the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in
Vancouver, Canada.

Main Conference: July 30 - August 4, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline:  April 21, 2017

The ACL 2017 Student Research Workshop (SRW) provides a forum for student
researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an
excellent opportunity for student participants to present their work and
receive valuable feedback from the international research community as well as
from selected panelists - experienced researchers, specifically assigned
according to the topic of their work, who will prepare in-depth comments and
questions in advance of the presentation. The workshop's goal is to aid
students at multiple stages of their education: from those in the final stages
of undergraduate training to those active with graduate thesis research.

Student Research Workshop Committee:

Student Chairs:

-Allyson Ettinger, University of Maryland
-Spandana Gella, University of Edinburgh
-Matthieu Labeau, LIMSI-CNRS

Faculty Advisors:

-Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Rochester Institute of Technology
-Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland
-Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University

Call for Papers:

ACL 2017 Student Research Workshop (SRW)

General Invitation for Submissions:

The SRW invites two types of submissions from student authors:

- Research Papers: completed work or work-in-progress along with preliminary
results. We encourage submissions from Ph.D students, as well as Masters or
advanced undergraduate students.

- Research Proposals: for advanced Masters and Ph.D. students who have decided
on a thesis topic and are interested in feedback about their proposal and
ideas about future directions for their work.

This year we provide two mentoring programs:

- Pre-submission Mentoring: the goal is to improve presentation of the
student's work, not to critique the work itself. Mentors will provide feedback
in the format of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing.

- Mentoring for Accepted Papers: mentors will be responsible for providing
feedback to students and preparing in-depth comments and questions prior to
the workshop presentation.

The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics,
including but not limited to:

Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
Corpus development and evaluation
Dialog and interactive systems
Discourse and pragmatics
Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval
Natural language generation
Information extraction, text mining, and question answering
Language-inclusive multimodal integration
Linguistic theories for NLP
Low-resource or endangered languages
Machine learning
Machine translation
Mathematical models of language
Multilinguality
Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
Resources and evaluation
Semantics
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums, and other social media
Sociolinguistics
Speech, prosody, and spoken dialog
Summarization
Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
Vision, robots, and other grounding applications

Submission Guidelines:

-For important additional information on submission requirements and format,
submission procedure, multiple-submission policy, and double-blind reviewing
process, please see our website
(https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2017/submission-guidelines).

All submissions are limited to 5 pages for content, with any number of
additional pages allowed for references. Upon acceptance, authors will be
allowed 1 additional page of content in order to incorporate suggestions from
the reviewers. 

The deadline for submission is 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on April 21,
2017. Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page:

- https://www.softconf.com/acl2017/srw/

If you wish to receive pre-submission mentoring, please send your paper or
proposal, in PDF format, to acl-srw-2017 at googlegroups.com by February 15,
2017. 

Important Dates:

- Pre-submission mentoring deadline: February 15, 2017
- Pre-submission mentoring feedback: March 7, 2017
- Submission deadline: April 21, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2017
- Camera-ready submission deadline: May 24, 2017
- Travel grant application deadline: June 20, 2017
- Travel grant notification: June 25, 2017
- ACL conference dates: July 30 - August 4, 2017

The workshop will be held during the main conference, in a mode similar to the
conference's regular sessions.

All deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time.

Travel Support:

There will be a limited amount of travel support and/or additional funding to
cover expenses. More information will be made available.

Contact:

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2017/
E-mail: acl-srw-2017 at googlegroups.com

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