EACL 2012 Student Research Workshop
Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop
Avignon, France
April 25-27, 2012
http://www.eacl2012.org
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
** Submission deadline: November 18, 2011 **
1. General Invitation for Submissions
EACL 2012 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for student
researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Participants will have the
opportunity to get feedback both from a wide audience in general and from
selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth
comments and questions in advance of the presentation.
The European Association of Computational Linguistics would like to invite
student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Original and
unpublished research is invited on all aspects of Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, including, but not limited
to:
- pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
- phonetics, phonology and morphology
- linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
- information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
- generation, summarization and paraphrasing
- speech recognition, speech synthesis
- corpus-based language modeling
- multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
- spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
- language resources and tools
- multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
- message and narrative understanding systems
- other Natural Language Processing applications
The main conference will also feature tutorials and workshops. Further
information on these is available at the main conference website:
http://www.eacl2012.org
2. Submission Requirements
Seeing that the main mission of the student workshop is to provide the
participants with a wide audience and useful feedback, the emphasis of the
workshop will be on work in progress. It will therefore normally be open
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 are encouraged to submit to the main conference. Papers
should clearly indicate directions for future research where appropriate.
The papers can have more than one author, however all authors must be
students.
A paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop cannot be
presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Double submissions to the EACL main conference and
the Student Research Workshop are not allowed. A student can only submit
one paper to the Student Workshop. Papers that are being submitted to
other conferences must indicate this on the submission page. Students who
have previously presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be
eligible to present again at the student session of any of these
conferences. These students are instead encouraged to submit to the main
conference.
3. Submission Format
All submissions must be submitted electronically as PDF and must follow
the two-column format of EACL proceedings. Authors are strongly
recommended to use the style files available on the conference web site.
Papers may consist of up to nine (9) pages of content and any number of
additional pages containing references only.
As reviewing will be double-blind, the paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal
the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) ...". Authors should not use anonymous citations and should
not include any acknowledgments. Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review.
The deadline for submission is 11:59pm Samoa Time (UTC/GMT -11 hours) on
November 18, 2011. Additional instructions for electronic submission will
be posted on the website of the Student Research Workshop at
http://eacl2012.org/student-research-workshop/
4. Reviewing Procedure
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by
the Student Workshop Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will
be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers for
review, and will receive three independent reviews. The final acceptance
decision will be based on the results of the review.
5. Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2011
Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: March 9, 2012
Papers available on-line: April 19, 2012
Student Research Workshop (The session will be held during the EACL main
conference): April 25 - 27, 2012
All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours)
6. Student Research Workshop Committee
Student Research Workshop Chairs:
Marta Recasens Potau (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Mattias Nilsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Pierre Lison (University of Oslo, Norway)
Faculty Advisor:
Laurence Danlos (University Paris 7, France)
E-mail: student-workshop at eacl2012.org