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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Human language technology (HLT) incorporates a broad spectrum
of disciplines working towards two closely related goals: to
enable computers to interact with humans using natural language,
and to serve as useful adjuncts to humans in tasks involving
language by providing services such as automatic translation,
automated speech recognition, information retrieval, text
summarization, and information extraction.
HLT-NAACL 2003 will run from Tuesday May 27 through Sunday
June 1, 2003. Its sessions will include technical presentations
of peer-reviewed (full) papers, late-breaking (short) papers,
posters, and system demonstrations. Invited speakers and
panelists will discuss the state of today's human language
technology. Tutorials will be presented on various aspects
of Human Language Technology (including Information Retrieval,
Speech Processing, and Natural Language Processing). The
conference will host workshops on various topics, including
a workshop organized by and devoted to graduate students.
HLT-NAACL 2003 combines the conference series of HLT and NAACL
(North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics). As an experiment in encouraging synergy and
reducing "conference overload", the organizers of HLT and the
NAACL Executive agreed to a combined conference in 2003. The
conference provides a unified forum for researchers to present
recent, high-quality, cutting-edge work, to exchange ideas,
and to explore emerging new research directions.
As described in the calls for submissions of papers and
demonstrations at http://www.htl-naacl03.org, the conference
especially encourages reports of work on synergistic combinations
of language technologies (e.g., Speech Processing with
Information Retrieval, Machine Translation with Speech, Question
Answering with Natural Language Processing, etc.). Papers that
announce or accompany new resources or available software are
also especially encouraged. In addition, the conference will
give special consideration to papers that address a special
topic: New approaches to and uses of unsupervised and lightly
supervised learning techniques.
The conference organization is overseen by a board representing
the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL), ACM SIGIR, the International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA), and HLT funding agencies in
North America.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Dec 30, 2002 | Due: full papers; proposals for tutorials and workshops
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| Feb 24, 2003 | Notification of acceptance of full papers, tutorials,
and workshops |
| Mar 7 | Due: late-breaking short papers/posters |
| Mar 20 | Due: demos |
| March 30 | Due: camera-ready full papers |
| Apr 16 | Notification of acceptance of late-breaking submissions |
| May 27-Jun 1 | Conference: |
| May 27 | Tutorials |
| May 28-30 | Conference proper |
| May 31-Jun 1 | Workshops |
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will be held in Edmonton, Canada, at the Westin Edmonton
hotel (www.thewestinedmonton.com, tel. (780) 426-3636). Accommodation
will also be provided at dormitories of the University of Alberta and
at other nearby hotels.
Edmonton is home to more than 10,000 acres of parkland and the world's
largest indoor mall. In the heart of downtown, the Westin Edmonton is
one of the city's premier hotels, located near the arts district,
theaters, and shopping. Special low room rates (approx $US 75) have
been negotiated.
The conference will take place in late Spring, during which Edmonton
usually enjoys good weather. For information about the city, visit
http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/. A visual tour of the city appears at
http://www.vredmonton.com/.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
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General chair: | Eduard Hovy (USC / Information Sciences Institute)
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Program co-chairs: | Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley),
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| Mari Ostendorf (U Washington)
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Local Arrangements chair: | Dekang Lin (U of Alberta)
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Demonstration Co-chairs: | Bob Frederking (CMU); Bob Younger (SPAWAR)
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Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs: |
James Allan (U Mass, Amherst)
Wayne Ward (U Colorado, Boulder)
Jason Eisner( Johns Hopkins U)
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Program Committee: |
Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research)
Bill Byrne (Johns Hopkins U)
Charles Clarke (U Waterloo)
Mike Collins (MIT)
Sue Dumais (Microsoft Research)
Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research)
Ralph Grishman (NYU)
Sanda Harabagiu (UT Dallas)
Kevin Knight (ISI/USC)
John Makhoul (BBNT Verizon)
Inderjeet Mani (MITRE)
Chris Manning (Stanford U)
Daniel Marcu (ISI/USC)
Fernando Pereira (U Pennsylvania)
Philip Resnik (U Maryland)
Doug Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Stephanie Seneff (MIT)
Richard Sproat (AT&T Research)
Andreas Stolcke (SRI/ICSI)
Steve Young (U Cambridge)
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Conference Oversight Committee: Donna Harman (NIST), Lynette Hirschman
(MITRE), Graeme Hirst (U Toronto; chair), Karen Kukich (NSF), John Prange
(ARDA), Dragomir Radev (U Michigan), Salim Roukos (IBM), Charles Wayne
(DARPA), David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins U)
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