========================================================= ========================================================= ACL 2007 NEWSLETTER NO.5 (June 5, 2007) ========================================================= ========================================================= ********************************************************* :: ACL 2007 LATE REGISTRATION IS STILL O P E N ! ********************************************************* ========================================================= :: Important Dates ========================================================= Late Registration: through June 10, 2007 (11:59pm GMT) Workshops: June 23-24 and 28-30, 2007 Tutorials: June 24, 2007 Main conference: June 25-27, 2007 ========================================================= :: Table of Contents ========================================================= 1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic 2. Organising Committee 3. Late Registration and Accommodation 4. Main Conference Program 5. Lists of Accepted Workshop Papers, Demos and Posters 6. Co-Located Events and Other Related Events 7. Instructions for Presenters 8. Connection to the Internet during the Conference 9. Sponsorship News ========================================================= :: 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 by local public transport 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 Logistics: Magda Sevcikova and Vaclav Novak Secretariat: Anna Kotesovcova Local Coordination: Jan Hajic Registration: Priscilla Rasmussen ========================================================= :: 3. Late Registration and Accommodation ========================================================= Late registration for ACL 2007 is open through June 10 (11:59pm GMT)! Please go to the ACL 2007 website at http://www.acl2007.org and register. Accommodation at the venue (the TOP Hotel) * Deadline for reservation is May 12, 2007, but rooms are still available today (standard and executive). * More information at: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/accommodation/venue/ Accommodation at the Student Dormitories * NO MORE ROOMS AVAILABLE AS OF MAY 26, 2007. * PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY MORE RESERVATION REQUESTS. ========================================================= :: 4. Main Conference Program ========================================================= A complete program of the main conference can be found at: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/program/ ========================================================= :: 5. Lists of Accepted Workshop Papers, Demos and Posters ========================================================= Please see the list of accepted workshop papers at: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/workshops/program/ and the list of accepted demos and posters at: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/demos/ ========================================================= :: 6. Co-Located Events and Other Related Events ========================================================= There are two main co-located events: * IWPT 2007, 2-day co-located conference, will be held at ACL 2007 site before the main conference, on June 23-24, 2007. All information about IWPT 2007 can be found at: http://www.latl.unige.ch/iwpt2007/index.html Please see the list of accepted papers for IWPT at: http://www.latl.unige.ch/iwpt2007/advertisement.html * EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, 3-day co-located conference, will be held at ACL 2007 site after the main conference, on June 28-30, 2007. See the conference web-site for further information: http://cs.jhu.edu/EMNLP-CoNLL-2007/ Please see the list of accepted papers for EMNLP-CoNLL at: http://cs.jhu.edu/EMNLP-CoNLL-2007/program.html Other related events are: * Workshop: What can Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web technologies do for eLearning? It takes place on June 24th, 2007, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. All information is available on the workshop web-site: http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_prague.php * Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI) workshop It takes place in Brno, on June 28-30, 2007. For further information, see the workshop web-site: http://www.mlmi07.org/ ========================================================= :: 7. Instructions for Presenters ========================================================= Please visit the conference web-site at: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/instructions/ and read carefully the instructions for presenters, divided into these four sections: * Instructions for Oral Presentations * Instructions for Workshop Presentations * Instructions for Poster Presentations * Instructions for Demo Presentations ========================================================= :: 8. Connection to the Internet during the Conference ========================================================= Almost every location inside the TOP hotel is covered by WiFi signal. There is a limit of 500 concurrent clients for the whole building and it is distributed to separate cells. The connection is secured by WEP. No password is required to connect to the WiFi network. There will be no wired internet for regular attendants. Power outlets will be accessible in presentation rooms (a limited number). ========================================================= :: 9. Sponsorship News ========================================================= The ACL 2007 Sponsorship Chairs very gratefully acknowledge the following additional committments in sponsorship: There is a new silver sponsor: * Powerset, Natural Language Search And there are two new bronze sponsors: * ELRA, the European Language Resources Association * Kilgray Translation Technologies For a complete list of sponzors, please visit our web page http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/sponsorship/ Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or finding out more about sponsorship opportunities is encouraged to contact any of the chairs at the following e-mail addresses. Gabor Proszeky: proszeky@morphologic.hu Jan Hajic: hajic@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Jun'ichi Tsujii: j.tsujii@manchester.ac.uk Martha Palmer: Martha.Palmer@colorado.edu