2017 MASC-SLL Call for Papers
Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
May 6th, 2017 George Washington University, Washington
The sixth annual Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning will be hosted at the George Washington University (Washington, DC) on May 6th, 2017. The Student Colloquium is intended to bring together students taking computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can introduce their research to the local student community, give and receive feedback, and engage each other in collaborative discussion.
Students are encouraged to submit abstracts describing ongoing, planned, or completed research projects, including previously published results and negative results. Student research in any field applying computational methods to any aspect of human language, including speech and learning, from all areas of computer science, linguistics, engineering, neuroscience, information science, and related fields, is welcome. Submissions and presentations must be made by students or postdocs. Accepted submissions will be presented as either posters or talks.
There will be no registration fee. Students and postdocs are encouraged to consult with their supervisors about potential reimbursement of travel expenses.
Abstract Submission Details
Abstracts should be no more than one page, not including references. Abstracts should conform to ACL style guidelines. LaTeX and Word style files, along with a style guide, are available at the 2017 ACL call for papers. Abstract reviewing will not be blind. Please include all names and affiliations in the abstract. Submit your abstract online via the 2017 MASC-SLL easychair site.
Topics
Relevant topics include the following.
Computational models of human language processing
Computational phonology and morphology
Discourse and pragmatics
Evaluation
Information retrieval and question answering
Knowledge Base population and machine reading
Language acquisition
Language disorders
Language generation and summarization
Language resources and annotation
Lexical semantics and ontologies
Machine learning
Machine translation and multilingual processing
NLP for the Web and social media
Semantics
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Speaker variability
Speech recognition and synthesis
Syntax and parsing
Text and document classification
Text mining and information extraction
Important Dates
Submission deadline (abstracts): March 31 April 5
Decisions announced: April 10 April 16
Registration opens: April 10
Program schedule released: April 20
Registration closes: May 1
Colloquium: May 6
For more information
If you have questions or need more information, you can send email to the 2017 MASC-SLL organizers via organizers [at] mascsll.org.