ACL HLT 2011 - ACL HLT 2011 The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Category ACL HLT 2011

Deadline: December 17, 2010 | Date: June 20, 2011-June 22, 2011

Venue/Country: Oregon, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-10-24 21:42:13 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

To be held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in

Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-24, 2011

ACL-HLT 2011 Call for Papers

Long Paper Submission Deadline: December 17, 2010

Short Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2011

The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Human Language Technologies conference will be organized as a single event to be held in Portland, Oregon, on June 19-24, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. ACL-HLT 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. The conference is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics, in cooperation with The North American Chapter of the ACL.

The conference invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including but not limited to:

Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics

Information Extraction

Information Retrieval

Language Resources

Lexical Semantics

Lexicon and ontology development

Linguistic Creativity

Machine Translation

Multilinguality

Multimodal representations and processing

NLP for Web 2.0

NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text

Natural Language Processing Applications

Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation

Question Answering

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

Spoken Language Processing

Statistical and Machine Learning Methods

Summarization and Generation

Syntax and Parsing

Text Classification

Text Mining

User Studies and Evaluation Methods

Important Dates

Long Submission Deadline: 12/17

Long Notification: 02/11

Long Camera Ready Deadline: 04/15

Short Submission Deadline: 02/25

Short Notification: 04/08

Short Camera Ready Deadline: 04/22

Conference Starts: 06/19

Submission Information

Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

ACL-HLT 2011 will also accept papers accompanied by the resource (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. A separate review process will be organized for the research papers and for the accompanying resources. Papers that are submitted with accompanying software/data will receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation score, and acceptance or rejection decision will be made based on the quality of both the research and the software/data component.

Long papers

Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references, 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. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between full papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations. The deadline for long papers is December 17, 2010 (PDT).

Submission is electronic using paper submission software at:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/papers/

Short papers

Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references. Short papers will be published in a separate volume, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentations. The deadline for short papers is February 25th. The following types of papers are appropriate for a short paper submission:

A small, focused contribution

Work in progress

A negative result

An opinion piece

An interesting application nugget

Format

Both long and short paper submissions should follow the two-column format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference, which are available on the conference website under Information for Authors. Submissions must conform to the official ACL-HLT 2011 style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be electronic in PDF.

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Authors that choose to also submit the supporting software/data with their paper, will have to ensure that the resource is ready for distribution, with complete README files and all the information required so that the reviewers can evaluate and/or use at least a part of the resource. The software/data component does not have to be anonymized, and it will be evaluated by a different set of reviewers than those reviewing the research component of the paper. The resource associated with papers being accepted for publication at ACL-HLT 2011 will be publicly distributed along with the online version of the conference proceedings.

ACL-HLT 2011 Style Files

Important: Remove authors information from your manuscripts when submitting them for blind review!

Latex MS Word

acl-hlt2011.tex acl-hlt2011.doc

acl-hlt2011.sty acl-hlt2011.dot

acl-hlt2011.pdf acl-hlt2011.pdf

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Multiple-submission policy

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. If ACL-HLT 2011 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program chairs, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. ACL-HLT 2011 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

Mentoring Service

ACL 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 ACL meetings. If you would like to take advantage of the service, please upload your paper in PDF format by November 1, 2010 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 (tb at ldwin.net)

Program Committee

Program Co-chairs

Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas

Area Chairs

Razvan Bunescu, Ohio University

Xavier Carreras, Technical University of Catalonia

Anna Feldman, Montclair University

Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University

Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta

Shankar Kumar, Google

Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas

Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Elliott Macklovitch, Marque d'Or

Katja Markert, University of Leeds

Lluis Marquez, Technical University of Catalonia

Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd

Ryan McDonald, Google

Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento

Vivi Nastase, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Vasile Rus, University of Memphis

Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Research Council of Italy

Michel Simard, National Research Council of Canada

Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Svetlana Stoyanchev, Open University

Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Xiaojun Wan, Peking University

Taro Watanabe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Alexander Yates, Temple University

Deniz Yuret, Koc University

Mentoring Chair

Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne