COLING-ACL '98 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98) and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98) August 10-14, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca On behalf of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), we are pleased to announce a major joint conference -- COLING-ACL'98 -- which will be held on the campus of l'Universite de Montreal between August 10-14, 1998. The RALI laboratory of the Computer Science and Operations Research Department of l'Universite de Montreal will be hosting the first North American COLING since the joint COLING-ACL'84 was held at Stanford University in 1984. We welcome submission of papers describing substantial, original, and unpublished research contributions on ALL aspects of computational linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around 16 main areas, as follows. * [L] Linguistic issues & associated formalisms o L1. Morphology & phonology o L2. Syntax & parsing o L3. Semantics, pragmatics, cognition o L4. Discourse & dialogue * [R] Linguistic resources & computational methods o R1. Corpus processing & empirical methods o R2. Lexical resources & computational lexicography o R3. Computational paradigms (symbolic, stochastic, neural, hybrid) o R4. Languages, tools & environments for lingware development * [A] Applications o A1. Form checking (spelling, terminology, grammar, style) o A2. Summarization, abstraction, generation o A3. Text and speech machine translation & translation aids o A4. Multimodal NLP (speech & dialogue processing, integration of speech, text, gestures) o A5. Text and speech information retrieval and categorization, electronic libraries * [P] Projects o P1. Large R&D cooperative projects o P2. Validation & testing programmes o P3. Small scale innovative research projects o P4. Others (contributions not falling in above categories) Authors will be asked to identify the areas (a maximum of two) to which their submission corresponds. Contributions that do not fall into any of the above areas but are nevertheless relevant to the field are also welcome. All contributions will be reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions may be of two different types: 1) regular papers; and 2) project notes. Regular papers should report the results of original completed research. Project notes, on the other hand, should describe ongoing research or demonstrate a system. Regular papers will be presented in 3 parallel sessions that do not overlap with the presentation of project notes. LANGUAGES In order to encourage multilingualism within our research community, authors will be allowed to use one supplementary page to write up their abstract in one or more additional languages. REQUIREMENTS All papers should describe original work, completed or in progress rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION The maximum allowable length is 7 pages for regular papers and 5 pages for project notes, plus one optional page for abstract(s) in other language(s). Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title, centered page numbers in footers, and 2 columns after title and abstract. Figures may range across columns. Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page is required. It should include: * submission type (regular paper, project note [+demo]), * title * author(s) name(s) * affiliation(s) * complete addresses * abstract in English * 1 or 2 topic areas * submission to other conferences ('none' or list) * and author of record (for correspondence). Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted in the paper itself. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. While submissions must be sent in hardcopy, we encourage authors to use our style files and templates for preparing them (available on COLING-ACL'98 Web site). This will help ensure that the requirements described above (including the separate identification page) are met, and that the effort required to format the final version will be minimized. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE All submissions (hardcopy and electronic) and questions regarding submissions should be sent to: COLING-ACL'98 submissions Professor Christian Boitet GETA, CLIPS, IMAG BP 53 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 France e-mail: ColingACL98.program@imag.fr (from 15/9/97) 1) Submission notification: send the complete identification page of each submission by e-mail at least 10 days before the submission deadline. A submission_id will be returned. Please use it from that point on to identify everything related to your submission. 2) Submission proper: send six hard copies of the paper and one copy of the identification page (with submission_id) early enough so that so that they reach the program chair no later than the deadline indicated below. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Late submissions will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the author of record shortly after receipt. 3) In addition, authors are strongly encouraged to send in an electronic version (which is in no way a substitute for the hard copies). Only pdf or postcript formats are acceptable. Please e-mail your paper, specifying as the subject submission_id.{pdf/ps}, AFTER sending your hard copy. The hard copy and electronic versions must be identical. DEADLINES * Submission notification (id page): e-mail before January 20, 1998 * Submission (6 copies + id page): to arrive in Grenoble no later January 30, 1998 * Notification to authors: April 17, 1998 * Final camera-ready copies (2): to arrive in Montreal no later than May 30, 1998 A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final version. STUDENT SESSION There will be a special session for students organized by a committee of ACL graduate student members. See Web pages at: http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/ TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS Workshops will take place on Saturday, August 15 and possibly extend to August 16. If you would like to give a tutorial or organize a workshop, send your proposals before December 31, 1997 to: Dr. Pete Whitelock Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd Oxford Science Park Oxford, OX4 4GA, England e-mail: pete@sharp.co.uk ORGANIZING COMMITTEE The organizing committee is being chaired by: Dr. Pierre Isabelle RALI, DIRO Universite de Montreal P.O. Box 6128, Succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3C 3J7 e-mail: coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca tel: (514) 343-6161; fax: (514) 343-2496 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Christian Boitet (GETA-CLIPS, Grenoble, ICCL) Co-chair: Peter Whitelock (Sharp, Oxford, ACL) Area chairs: o L1. L. Karttunen (XRCE, Grenoble) o L2. A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) o L3. E. Hajicova (Charles University, Prague) o L4. Y. Wilks (University of Sheffield) o R1. D. Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) o R2. N. Calzolari (ILC, Pisa) o R3. H. Tanaka (TIT, Tokyo) o R4. R. Zajac (NMSU, Las Cruces) o A1. S. Richardson (Microsoft) o A2. W. Lenders (University of Bonn) o A3. J.I. Tsujii (Tokyo University) o A4. A. Waibel (CMU, Pittsburgh) o A5. S. Nirenburg (CRL, New-Mexico State University) o P1. A. Zampolli (ICL, Pisa) o P2. J. Mariani (LIMSI, Orsay) o P3. H. Schnelle (Bochum) o P4. E. Wehrli (LATL, Geneva) We look forward to receiving your submissions, Christian Boitet and Peter Whitelock Program Chairs, COLING-ACL'98