Title ACL 2004 Newsletter No.1 - 20 January 2004 Text ACL2004 NEWSLETTER NO. 1 (January 20, 2004) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 42nd Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the European Chapter of the ACL. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. ACL 2004 will be held at the new Barcelona Forum Convention Centre, which is scheduled to be completed in December 2003, officially opening on April, 2004.The ACL meeting will be part of the programme of the Forum of Cultures that will take place in Barcelona from April to September 2004. :: Main Dates Conference Tutorials: July 21, 2004 Main Conference: July 22-24, 2004 Post-conference Workshops: July 25-26, 2004 Paper submission due: February 25, 2004 :: Contents This news letter includes: [if !supportLists]1. [endif]Area chairs of the main conference [if !supportLists]2. [endif]Mentoring service [if !supportLists]3. [endif]Call for sponsorship [if !supportLists]4. [endif]List of accepted workshops [if !supportLists]5. [endif]Programme Committee of poster and demos [if !supportLists]6. [endif]Call for papers of student research workshop [if !supportLists]7. [endif]Call for tutorials [if !supportLists]8. [endif]Others More details can be found at the website of the ACL2004 Conference. :: Area chairs of the main conference Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany) Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Service, USA) Claire Cardie (Cornell University, USA) Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) Michael Johnston (AT&T, USA) Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, USA) Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh, UK) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Turkey) Kees van Deemter (University of Brighton, UK) Antal van den Bosch (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands) top :: 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 Richard Power, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL'04. If you would like to take advantage of the service, send a draft of your paper to: Richard Power Information Technology Research Institute University of Brighton Watts Building Lewes Road Brighton BN24GJ UK +44 1273 642904 (office) +44 1273 642908 (fax) Email: Richard.Power@itri.brighton.ac.uk To take advantage of this service, send the paper electronically to the above email address, using pdf, ps or doc format. Alternatively, hard copy can be sent to the postal address. The paper should arrive before 1st February. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor will get back to you by 15th February, at least ten days before the deadline for the submission to ACL'04 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 Richard Power. top :: Call for sponsorship Chair: Deborah Dahl (Conversational Technologies, USA) Local Chair: Ant?nia Mart? (University of Barcelona, Spain) On behalf of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), we invite commercial, government, and academic organizations who value and wish to promote the field of natural language processing technology to become sponsors of ACL2004, the 42nd Annual Meeting of the ACL. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please see the sponsors page for more details. Please also consider exhibiting your products at the conference. We are happy to announce that the following organizations have agreed to give their support at ACL04. Ajuntament de Barcelona Generalitat de Catalunya Spanish Government Universitat de Barcelona Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Universitat Pompeu Fabra Universitat Ramon Llull Deadlines: Sponsorship registration deadline: by 1st April 2004 top :: List of accepted workshops Workshop Committee: Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) ACL-2004 Workshop C Christopher Manning (Stanford University, USA) ACL-2004 Workshop C Helen Meng (CUHK, Hong Kong) ACL-2004 Workshop C Marcello Federico (IRST, Italy) :: Current Themes in Computational Phonology and Morphology Organizing Committee: Richard Wicentowski, Swarthmore College John Goldsmith, University of Chicago Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 24, 2004 Workshop date: July 26, 2004 :: Discourse Annotation Organizing Committee: Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh Donna Byron, Ohio State University Important dates: Paper submission deadline: March 22, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 24, 2004 Workshop date: July 25, 2004 ::Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together Organizing Committee: Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh Matthew Crocker, Saarland University Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Important dates: Paper submission deadline: March 22, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 24, 2004 Workshop date: July 25, 2004 :: Multiword Expressions: Integrating Processing Organizing Committee: Takaaki Tanaka, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Aline Villavicencio, University of Cambridge, UK Francis Bond , NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 26, 2004 :: Question Answering in Restricted Domains Organizing Committee: Diego Moll?, Macquarie University, Australia Jos? Luis Vicedo, Alicante University, Spain Important dates: Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 25 or 26, 2004 :: RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology: 4th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2004) Organizing Committee: Nancy Ide, Vasar College, USA Laurent Romary, Loria/CNRS, France Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 25, 2004 :: Reference Resolution and Its Applications Organizing Committee: Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas David Farwell, New Mexico State University Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 5, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004 :: SENSEVAL-3 Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text Organizing Committee: Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas ? Important dates: Registration: February 2004 Evaluations: March - April 2004 Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 18, 2004 Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004 :: Tackling the challenges of terascale human language problems Organizing Committee: Miles Osborne, Univ. of Edinburgh Robert Malouf, San Diego State University Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs-Research Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 26, 2004 :: 2nd Workshop on Text Meaning and Interpretation Organizing Committee: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 16, 2004 Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004 :: Text Summarization Branches Out Organizing Committee: Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA Marie-Francine Moens (co-chair), Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & Information Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Dragomir Radev, School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA Stan Szpakowicz (co-chair), School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada Important dates: Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004 :: Third SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing Organizing Committee: Oliver Streiter, Eurac, Italy Qin Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Important dates: Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2004 Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2004 Workshop date: July 25-26, 2004 top :: Programme committee of poster and demos Philippe Blache, Universit? de Provence, France Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Christian Boitet, Universit? Joseph Fourier, France Antonio Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Francisco Casacuberta, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Ken Church, ATT Labs, USA Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK Marcello Federico, IRST, Italy Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton, UK Diego Moll?, Macquarie University, Australia Stefan Muller, Universit?t Bremen, Germany Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Istanbul, Turkey Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France German Rigau, EHU, Spain Horacio Rodr?guez, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Laurent Romary, INRIA, France Graham Russell, RALI, Canada Eric Wehrli, LATL, Switzerland Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM, France top :: Call for papers of student research workshop Faculty Advisor: Justine Cassell (Northwestern University, USA) Student Co-Chairs: Daniel Midgley (University of Western Australia, Australia) Dmitriy Genzel (Brown University, USA) Leonoor van der Beek (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 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 receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity 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. One paper will be selected for the ACL-04 Student Research Workshop Best Paper Award. 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. Original and unpublished research is therefore invited on all aspects of computational linguistics. Papers should describe original work, still in progress. Submission will therefore normally be open only to students who have settled on their thesis direction but who still have significant research left to do; those students in the final stages of their thesis should consider submitting instead to the main conference. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. Submission must be electronic. The electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the following e-mail address: acl04-student@list.cs.brown.edu. Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this "We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ..." use citations such as "Smith (2001) previously showed ..." Deadlines: Paper submissions deadline: 8th March 2004 Notification of acceptance: 26th April 2004 Camera ready papers due: 25th May 2004 top :: Call for tutorials Tutorials chair: Inderjeet Mani (Georgetown University, USA) The Program Committee of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'04) invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ACL'04. Proposals for tutorials should contain a title, the instructors? names, the length (3 hours or 6 hours), the expected audience size, followed by a brief (< 500 word) description of the content of the tutorial. The description should explain clearly the relevance of the tutorial to the ACL community. The description should also include a brief outline of the structure of the tutorial broken down by time (what topics will covered in the different sections of the tutorial, and in what order, and how much time for each). ?Also, please include a brief statement of what the tutorial attendees can expect to learn from the tutorial, and what backgrounds (e.g., information extraction, statistical NLP, etc.) is expected of the attendees. Finally, if you have given a prior tutorial on this subject, or are aware of one, please let us know. Each proposal should also provide the names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise, along with any links to further on-line information. The proposal should also include any special requirements for technical needs (e.g., internet access). Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text (iso8859-1). The subject line should be: "ACL'04 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL". Please submit your proposals and address any inquiries to tutorials@acl2004.org. Deadlines: Submission Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: 1 February 2004 Notification of acceptance of Tutorial Proposals: 25 February 2004 Tutorial Announcements due: 19 March 2004 Tutorial Course material due: 1 June 2004 top :: Others (i) ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files for this year's conference. (ii) Submissions for the main conference will be entered via a website