Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement ========================================================= ========================================================= ACL 2007 NEWSLETTER NO. 1 (December 1, 2006) ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= :: Important Dates ========================================================= Workshop proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2006 Tutorial proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2006 Main conference paper submission deadline: January 23, 2007 Student research workshop paper submission deadline: January 23, 2007 Tutorials: June 24, 2007 Main conference: June 25-27, 2007 Workshops: June 28-29, 2007 ========================================================= :: Table of Contents ========================================================= 1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic 2. Organising Committee 3. Main Conference Call for Papers 4. Mentoring Service 5. Call for Workshop Proposals 6. Call for Tutorial Proposals 7. Student Research Workshop Call for Papers ========================================================= :: 1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic ========================================================= The conference is organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague ("Univerzita Karlova v Praze"), Czech Republic, the oldest University in Europe north of the Alps (founded in 1348). The conference will take place in the TOP HOTEL Praha, located in the quiet neighborhood of the Prague 4 district, only 15-20 minutes from the historic center of Prague. The hotel can accommodate up to 1000 participants on-site (with a small number of dormitory rooms available nearby). The hotel offers one auditorium, three large lecture rooms, number of smaller rooms for tutorials and workshops, several restaurants and cafes and lot of open air space for walks and informal discussions. The conference banquet and a conference concert will take place in the historic buildings in the city center -- one in the Municipal Hall (built in the Art-nouveau style of the early 20th century) and the other in the 14th century main University Hall. ========================================================= :: 2. Organising Committee ========================================================= General Chair: John Carroll Local Arrangements Chair: Eva Hajicova Program Chairs: Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch Student Workshop Chairs: Violeta Seretan and Chris Biemann, with Ellen Riloff Workshops Chair: Simone Teufel Tutorials Chair: Joakim Nivre Demos/Posters Chair: Sophia Ananiadou Exhibits Chair: Jaroslava Hlavacova and Pavel Pecina Sponsorship: Martha Palmer, Gabor Proszeky and Jan Hajic Publicity: Pavel Stranak and Jiri Mirovsky Publications: Su Jian Mentoring Service: Florence Reeder Student Volunteers: Marketa Lopatkova Website: Zlatica Subrova and Juraj Simlovic Secretariat: Priscilla Rasmussen and Anna Kotesovcova ========================================================= :: 3. Main Conference Call for Papers ========================================================= Program Co-Chairs: Annie Zaenen (PARC, USA) Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2007 Camera ready papers due: May 4, 2007 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 45th Annual Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; lexical semantics and ontologies; word segmentation, tagging and chunking; parsing; generation and summarization; language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language; document retrieval, question answering, information extraction, and text mining; machine learning for natural language; corpus-based modeling of language, discourse and dialogue; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; applications, tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2007.org/ ========================================================= :: 4. Mentoring Service ========================================================= ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the 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. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Florence Reeder (Mitre, USA), who has agreed to organize this service for ACL-07. If you would like to take advantage of the service, email a draft of your paper in pdf, ps or doc format to: freeder @ mitre.org (Florence Reeder). The paper should arrive before December 15, 2006. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor will get back to you by January 15, 2007, at least seven days before the deadline for the submission to ACL-07 program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers. If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Florence Reeder. ========================================================= :: 5. Call for Workshop Proposals ========================================================= Workshops Program Committee: Simone Teufel, Chair (University of Cambridge, UK) Katja Markert (University of Leeds, UK) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) Beth Ann Hockey (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Important Dates: Submission deadline for workshop proposals: December 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: January 15, 2007 Workshop Paper Submission deadline (suggested): March 26, 2007 Cameraready deadline to Publications Chair: May 14, 2007 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), in Prague, Czech Republic. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. For further information on submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2007.org/ ========================================================= :: 6. Call for Tutorial Proposals ========================================================= Tutorials Chair: Joakim Nivre (Vaexjoe University and Uppsala University, Sweden) Important Dates: Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: December 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2007 Tutorial descriptions due: February 16, 2007 Tutorial course material due: May 14, 2007 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), to be held in Prague, Czech Republic. Proposals for tutorials on all topics of computational linguistics and its applications are sought. Especially encouraged are cross-disciplinary tutorials that educate the community about recent technical advancements in neighboring disciplines that are of interest to computational linguistics, or introduce relevant algorithms and theory that may be "old hat" to specialists in these areas but are still unfamiliar to part of the natural language processing community. For further information on submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2007.org/ ========================================================= :: 7. Student Research Workshop Call for Papers ========================================================= Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs: Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Chris Biemann (University of Leipzig, Germany) Ellen Riloff, Faculty Advisor (University of Utah, USA) Important Dates: Paper submissions deadline: January 23, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2007 Camera ready papers due: April 27, 2007 The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and to receive feedback both from the general audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress. For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2007.org/ =========================================================