EACL 2012 - Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Deadline: November 04, 2011 | Date: April 23, 2012-April 27, 2012

Venue/Country: Avignon, France

Updated: 2011-05-11 20:43:45 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for

Computational Linguistics

Avignon, France

April 23-27, 2012

http://eacl2012.org

First Call For Papers

))) Submission deadline: November 4, 2011(((

EACL 2012 is the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the

Association for Computational Linguistics. The conference invites the

submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished

research on all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived

to include disciplines such as psycholinguistics, speech, information

retrieval, multimodal language processing. The conference welcomes

theoretical, empirical, and application-orientated papers as well as

papers targeting emerging domains such as bioinformatics and social

media.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

- phonetics, phonology, and morphology

- word segmentation, tagging and chunking

- syntax, parsing, grammar formalisms, and grammar induction

- semantics

- pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue

- generation and summarization

- information retrieval and question answering

- information extraction

- sentiment analysis and opinion mining

- machine translation and multilingual systems

- spoken language processing and language modeling

- dialogue systems and multimodal systems

- language resources and tools

- psychological and mathematical models of language and language

acquisition

- machine learning and algorithms for natural language

- natural language processing applications

- domain and genre adaptation of data-driven NLP systems

- evaluation methodology

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: November 4, 2011

Author response period: December 27-30, 2011

Notification of acceptance: January 13, 2012

Camera-ready papers due: March 9, 2012

Papers available on-line: April 19, 2012

EACL 2012 Conference: April 23 - 27, 2012

All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours)

Requirements

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed

work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state

of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for

presentation

at EACL 2012 cannot be presented at any other meeting with publicly

available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to

other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the submission

page. If the paper is accepted by both EACL 2012 and another meeting

or publication, it must be withdrawn from one of them. Furthermore,

its authors must notify the program chairs, within a week of receiving

the EACL 2012 acceptance notification, whether or not they have chosen

EACL 2012 for presentation of their work.

Review and Selection

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, and all submissions

will receive three independent reviews.

Final decisions on the program will be made by the Program Committee,

consisting of the Program Co-Chairs and Area Chairs.

Submissions will be assessed with respect to appropriateness, clarity,

soundness/correctness, meaningful comparison, originality/innovativeness,

and impact of ideas or results.

Publication and Presentation

All papers that are accepted will be published in the proceedings

of the conference, and will be presented orally or as a poster

presentation as determined by the program committee. The decisions

as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster

presentations will be based

on the nature rather than on the quality of the work.

Authors will be also asked on submission to state their preferred

mode of presentation.

EACL 2012 will continue aiming to give poster presentations a high

status.

There will be no distinction in the conference proceedings between

papers that are assigned different presentation modes.

Submission Information

All submissions must be submitted electronically as PDF and must

follow the two-column format of EACL proceedings. Authors are strongly

recommended to use the style files available on the conference web

site. Papers may consist of up to nine (9) pages of content and any

number of additional pages containing references only.

EACL 2012 will also accept papers accompanied by the resource(s)

(software or data) described in the paper. In addition to the regular

review of the research quality of the paper, these papers will also be

reviewed for the quality of the resource that is being made

available. Acceptance or rejection decision will be made based on the

quality of both the research and the software/data component.

As reviewing will be double-blind, the paper should not include the

authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that

reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith,

1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith

previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Authors should not use anonymous

citations and should not include any acknowledgments. Papers that do

not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

The deadline for submission is 11:59pm Samoa Time (UTC/GMT -11 hours)

on November 4, 2011. Additional instructions for electronic submission

will be posted on the conference website at http://eacl2012.org

Mentoring service

EACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from

regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language of

scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to

read the scientific literature in English, have little or no

experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the

E/ACL meetings. If you would like to take advantage of the service,

please upload your paper in PDF format by September 23, 2011 using the

paper submission software for the mentoring service which will be

available at the conference website. Questions about the mentoring

service should be referred to(add email address)

Invited speakers

TBA

Best paper awards

TBA

Organization

General Chair: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp,

Belgium)

Program Co-Chairs: Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de

Catalunya, Spain)

Area Chairs: TBA

Mentoring Chairs: Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University,

Germany)

Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The

Netherlands)

Publications Chairs: Adri de Gispert (University of Cambridge, UK)

Fabrice Lefevre (University of Avignon, France)

Local Chair: Marc El-Beze (University of Avignon, France)

Local Co-Chair: Tania Jimenez (University of Avignon, France)