Language Technology Joint Conference Applied Natural Language Processing and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics April 29 - May 3, 2000, Seattle, Washington CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS Student Session Co-Chairs: Donna Byron, University of Rochester Peter Vanderheyden, University of Waterloo Contents: 1. Overview and Purpose of the Student Session 2. Topics of Interest 3. Format for Submissions 4. Deadlines 1. Overview The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce the student session of the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP) and first meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). During this session, students working in any area of computational linguistics are given the opportunity to present research in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. This is a valuable opportunity for students to solicit comments on their research from a broader audience than would otherwise be possible. We encourage all students, no matter what their level, to participate. Papers submitted to the student session should describe original, unpublished work in progress. For student papers presenting joint work, all co-authors must be students. Concurrent submission to other conferences is allowed, but this must be clearly indicated on the identification page. If accepted, the paper must be withdrawn from all other conferences or alternatively may be withdrawn from ANLP-NAACL 2000. Students may not submit the same paper to the main sessions and the student session of ANLP-NAACL 2000. Students may, of course, submit different papers to the main conference and the student session, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. Submissions are due by November 17, 1999. See submission details below. A separate website for the student session is available at http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/dbyron/naacl2000/. All the submission and paper preparation details described in this message can also be viewed on the website. The availability of travel grants and student funding has not yet been finalized; up-to-date information will be posted to the student session webpage. 2. Topics of Interest There will be one joint student session spanning the entire range of topics covered by both conferences. The ANLP conference covers natural language processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and related issues. The NAACL meeting includes papers on all aspects of computational linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms, models, analyses, and experiments. Please see the general session Call for Papers (sent separately and available on the web site) for more details. The main conference web site is http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000. 3. Format for Submissions The maximum allowable length is 1800 words, including inline references and footnotes but excluding the identification page, figures and bibliography (the final size in the conference proceedings will be about 3 pages). Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript, or PDF (we encourage postscript submissions). PostScript submissions must use a standard font. LaTeX submissions should not refer to any other external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files (available on our web site) for the preparation of submissions. For papers prepared using Word, a postscript or PDF file must be submitted. These styles include a place for the required information such as contact author and word count, and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. Authors who have difficulty accessing the style files from the student session web site should contact the student session Co-Chairs for a textual description. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the required format is at http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/dbyron/acl00/substyle.html. Blind Reviewing Since reviewing will be `blind', the heading of the paper should omit author names and addresses (this information will be included in the identification page). Self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . . ") should be avoided. Instead, use references in a neutral form (e.g., "Smith previously showed (1991) . . . "). Furthermore, avoid obvious giveaways in the bibliography such as listings for unpublished in-house technical reports. Each paper will be reviewed by one non-student and two student reviewers knowledgeable in the area addressed by the paper. Identification Page Identifying information should be on a separate page and must include the following: Title Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses Designated contact author Short (5 line) summary Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area Submission to other conferences (`none' or a list) Papers outside the specified length or that do not meet the formatting guidelines are liable to rejection without review. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The preferred form for submission is via the author's web site. Load the postscript, pdf or self-contained LaTex file to a web site, then email the website's address to the Co-Chairs at naacl00@cs.rochester.edu. If an author has no web space available, the file containing the paper can be emailed to the above address. Only in unusual cases will hard copy submissions be allowed. Please contact the Co-Chairs well in advance of the deadline if you need to make special arrangements. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the designated contact author shortly after receipt. CONTACT INFORMATION Inquiries to the Co-Chairs of the student session should be sent by email to naacl00@cs.rochester.edu or to either Co-Chair individually: Donna Byron Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, New York USA 14627 Phone: (716) 275-5679 Fax: (716) 461-2018 email: dbyron@cs.rochester.edu Peter Vanderheyden Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 Phone: (519) 888-4567 x3287 Fax: (519) 885-1208 email: pbvander@uwaterloo.ca 4. Deadlines Paper submission deadline: 17-Nov-99 Notification of acceptance for papers: 01-Feb-00 Camera ready papers due: 12-Mar-00 A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final version.