The ACL-2003 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL-2003 in Sapporo (Japan). We welcome proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. We also encourage proposals involving neighboring research areas such as speech technology, information retrieval, text and data mining, biological information extraction, computational psycholinguistics, etc. Workshops focusing on Asian language processing and fostering communication and cooperation between Western and Eastern (Asian) CL communities are welcomed as well.

Workshops of ACL-2003 will take place as pre-conference workshops (July 7, 2003) or as post-conference workshops (July 11-12, 2003).

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find general information on policies regarding attendance, publication, financing, and sponsorship, as well as on specific policies on sponsorship and financial support of SIG workshop at the following URL: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/index-policies.html

Submission Details

Proposals for workshops should contain:

• A title and brief description (max. 500 words) of the workshop topic.
• A budget proposal (ACL workshops are expected to be self-financing.)
• A description of target audience and expected number of participants.
• The intended length (half a day to two days)
• A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted.
• Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the workshop contact person

Please submit proposals as soon as possible, by electronic mail in plain ASCII text to the following address: alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it

The subject line should be: "ACL 2003 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".

Important Dates

Submission deadline for workshop proposals:	November 28, 2002
Notification of acceptance workshop proposal:	December 12, 2002
Workshop Dates:	July 7, 2003 (pre-conference workshops); July 11-12, 2003 (post-conference workshops)

ACL-2003 Workshop Committee

Lori Levin (CMU, U.S.A.)

Takenobu Tokunaga (TIT, Japan)

Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa, Italy)