ACL-02

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS


Association for Computational Linguistics
40th Anniversary Meeting
July 7 - 12, 2002

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Demonstrations Chair: Ronnie W. Smith (East Carolina University)
The ACL-02 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program, and should be arranged as part of the (INSERT LINK HERE) ACL-02 Exhibit Program)

Areas of Interest

We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Format for Submission

Demo Proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair (electronic submissions preferred).

Submissions Procedure

Proposals should be submitted by April 1, to the ACL-02 Demonstrations Chair. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to:

Ronnie W. Smith
Department of Computer Science
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858 USA
rws@cs.ecu.edu
phone: +1 (252) 328-1906
fax: +1 (252) 328-0715

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints.

Other Details

Further details on the timing and format for the demonstrations sessions will be determined and provided at a later date.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline for Demo Proposal: 1 April 2002
Notification : 29 April 2002
Conference Dates: 7-12 July 2002