########### Call for Papers ################ Student Workshop at ACL' 2000 Call For Papers 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3--6 October, 2000 Hong Kong This information can also be found at this URL: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~pakh0002/ Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established yet. Tentatively, the Workshop may take place anytime between 1st and 7th of October, 2000. The exact dates will be posted once confirmed by the Main ACL'2000 Conference Program Committee. 1. General Invitation for Submissions The Student Session is an established tradition at ACL conferences. This year it will take the form of a Student Workshop. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. For the Student Workshop, original, and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to these topic areas: -pragmatics -discourse -semantics -syntax and the lexicon -phonetics -phonology and morphology -interpreting and generating spoken and written language -linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language -language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction -corpus-based language modeling -machine translation and translation aids -natural language interfaces and dialogue systems -approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems -message and narrative understanding systems The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and demos. See the Main ACL'2000 page for information. URL: http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000 2. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress. The main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. Papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The papers can have more than one author; however, all authors MUST be students. A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title material on the first page. 3. Submission Procedure Paper Registration Registration of your submission is required. This can be done by filling out a form available here. After you fill out and submit this form, a unique ID number will be generated and sent to you in an e-mail shortly after the paper registration. You will then be able to use this ID number instead of your name on the title page of the paper and in any subsequent correspondence with the workshop co-chairs. If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper registration or experience problems using it, please, send email to pakh0002@tc.umn.edu Paper Length Authors should submit their papers for review, not to exceed 2500 words. The count does not include title page and references. The final camera-ready copy is expected to be about 5 pages. The exact limit is to be announced once cinfirmed by the Main ACL'2000 Conference Program Committe. Separate items to be submitted Identification page Title: Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration) Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas) Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area Word Count: excluding title page and references Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify) Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Title page Title: Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration) Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas) Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area Word Count: excluding title page and references Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, specify) Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Paper Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are acceptable. Electronic Submissions If you are submitting your paper electronically, only the following formats will be acceptable: PostScript (.ps) Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf) Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc) LaTex format ACL style (.tex) PDF (.pdf) We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/Latex/index.html) files or Microsoft Word Style (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/word/ACL2000_submission.doc) files tailored for this year's conference. These style files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. These will be made available from this page soon. In case you are unable to use these style files directly, a description of the format can be found at this URL: http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/word/ACL2000_Format.doc Electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the following e-mail address: acl-student@linguistech.com Hard Copy Submissions If you are submitting a hard copy of your paper, please send six double sided copies of your paper (two copies should have the identification page attached, four should have the title page attached) to the following address: c/o Sergei Pakhomov Department of Linguistics University of Minnesota, 315 Pillsbury Drive SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 3. Reviewing Procedure Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by Student Workshop Co-Chairs, each of whom will have 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 made based on the results of the review. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make sure you do not put the author(s) name(s) on the title page. (See paper submission requirements for details). You should not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, you can't have a reference like this "We showed previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)..." 4. Schedule Submissions must be received by May 19, 2000. Late submissions (those arriving on or after May 20, 2000) will be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. For electronic submissions, all time zones will be taken into account) Acknowledgement will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on July 21, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. 5. Timetable The dates here pertain only to the Student Session. Important Dates: Paper registration: April 28, 2000 Paper submission deadline: May 19, 2000 Notification of Acceptance: July 21, 2000 Camera-Ready Copy Due: TBA Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use this address: acl-student@linguistech.com. An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to both Co-Chairs. Olivia Kwong (Co-Chair) Sergey Pakhomov (Co-Chair) Computer Laboratory Linguistics Department University of Cambridge University of Minnesota Cambridge CB2 3QG 315 Pillsbury Drive SE United Kingdom Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 USA Oi.Yee-Kwong@cl.cam.ac.uk pakh0002@tc.umn.edu Tel: +44 1223 334619 Tel: +1 (612)-835-6546 Fax: +44 1223 334678 Fax: +1 (612)-835-9720