Full Papers: Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.

Full papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus one extra page for references, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentation as determined by the program committee.  The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between full papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations.  

The deadline for full papers is 11:59PM February 22, 2009 Singapore time (GMT+8). Submission is electronic using paper submission software at:

https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/papers (Full paper submission has been closed).

To streamline the reviewing process, authors are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts one week before the full paper submission deadline.

Short papers: ACL-IJCNLP 2009 solicits short papers as well. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. The short paper deadline is just about three months before the conference to accommodate the following types of papers:

• A small, focused contribution
• Work in progress
• A negative result
• An opinion piece
• An interesting application nugget

Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions, and will be given four pages in the proceedings. While short papers will be distinguished from full papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. The deadline for short papers is 11:59PM April 26, 2009 Singapore time (GMT+8). Submission is electronic using paper submission software at:

https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/shortpapers

Multiple-submission policy:

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. If ACL-IJCNLP 2009 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program chairs by April 19, 2009 (full papers) or June 7, 2009 (short papers), indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work.  ACL-IJCNLP 2009 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.