Preliminary Call for Papers for NAACL HLT 2010
June 1 – June 6, 2010, Los Angeles, California
Important Dates:
Deadline for BOTH Full and Short paper submission: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Notification to Authors: Monday, January 25, 2010
NAACL HLT 2010 combines the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of NAACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. This year, we are especially interested in papers discussing research with noisy data, including data from informal communications (such as, Twitter, Blogs, Email, SMS) and processed data (such as, Speech, OCR, Historical Data, Machine Translation). NAACL HLT 2010 will feature full papers, short papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops.
The conference invites the submission of full papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in disciplines that could impact human language processing systems. We also encourage the submission of short papers that can be characterized as a small, focused contribution, a work in progress, a negative result, an opinion piece or an interesting application note.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas, and are understood to be applied to speech and/or text:
Phonology
Morphology (including word segmentation)
Part of speech tagging
Syntax and parsing (e.g., grammar induction, formal grammar, algorithms)
Grammar Engineering
Word sense disambiguation
Lexical semantics
Formal semantics and logic
Mathematical Linguistics
Textual entailment and paraphrasing
Discourse and pragmatics
Knowledge acquisition and representation
Statistical and machine learning techniques for language processing
Multilingual processing
Noisy data analysis
Large-scale language processing
Machine translation
Language generation
Summarization
Question answering
Information retrieval (including monolingual and CLIR)
Information extraction
Topic classification and information filtering
Non-topical classification (e.g., sentiment/attribution/ genre analysis)
Topic clustering
Text and speech mining
Spoken term detection and spoken document indexing
Speech indexing and retrieval
Speech analysis and recognition
Speech synthesis
Speech understanding
Dialog systems
Speech-centered applications (e.g., human-computer, human- robot interaction, education and learning systems, assistive technologies, digital entertainment)
Evaluation (e.g., intrinsic, extrinsic, user studies)
Development of language resources (e.g., lexicons, ontologies, annotated corpora)
Rich transcription (automatic annotation of information structure and sources in speech)
Multimodal representations and processing, including speech, gaze, gesture, and other sensory inputs
Detailed submission information will soon be available at: http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/
General Conference Chair:
Ron Kaplan, Powerset Division of Microsoft Bing
Program Co-Chairs:
Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
Mary Harper, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Human Language Technology Center of Excellence
Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
Workshop Chairs
Richard Sproat, Oregon Health & Sciences University
David Traum, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies
Demo Chair
Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute
Local Arrangements Chairs
David Chiang, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Jonathan May, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Jason Riesa, University of Southern California,. Information Sciences Institute
Sponsorship Chairs
North America: Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T; Christy Doran, MITRE
Local: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute