Student Research Workshop

Call For Papers

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HLT/NAACL 2003 Student Workshop
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Call for Papers

May 30-31, 2003.

1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is a tradition at ACL conferences.  In
this conference, we want to expand the workshop to include not only
students in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing, but also those from the Information Retrieval and Speech
communities.  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.

We invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop.
The emphasis will be on work in progress.  Original and unpublished
research is invited on all aspects of speech, information retrieval,
and computational linguistics.  We especially encourage research that
is in the intersection of two or three of these areas.

Primary workshop topics:

        - Language modeling
        - Topic detection  
        - Information extraction

Additional topics of interest:

   - Dialog systems and spoken language understanding (NLP and Speech).
   - Speech synthesis and natural language generation (NLP and Speech).
   - Speech-to-speech translation                     (NLP and Speech).
   - Spoken document retrieval                        (IR and Speech)
   - Prosody and parsing                              (NLP and Speech)
   - Question answering                               (NLP and IR)
   - Summarization and gisting                        (NLP and IR)
   - User modeling and adaptation                     (IR and Speech)
   - Disambiguation, stemming, lexical chains         (NLP and IR)

Submissions will also be accepted in any of the following areas:

NLP:
      - Pragmatics
      - Discourse
      - Semantics
      - Syntax
      - Lexicon
      - Phonetics and phonology
      - Morphology
      - Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
      - Multi-lingual processing
      - Machine translation and translation aids
      - Language in multi-modal systems
      - Message and narrative understanding systems

IR:
      - Machine learning for IR, text mining, clustering, text categorization
      - Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval
      - Novelty detection, topic tracking, collaborative filtering
      - Interfaces, visualization, interactive IR
      - Natural language processing for IR
      - Evaluation, experimental design and metrics
      - Formal models, language models, fusion/combination

Speech:
      - Speech synthesis
      - Speech recognition
      - Speech understanding
      - Multimodality
      - Spoken dialog systems

The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and
demos. More information on these can be found on the main HLT/NAACL-03 page.

2. Submission Requirements

Papers should describe original work, either in progress or
completed.  The workshop will be ideally suited 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 should be submitting instead to the main conference. Papers
should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever
appropriate. All authors of multi-author papers must be students. A
paper accepted for presentation at the Student Workshop may not be
presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to
other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title
material on the first page. A student who has already presented at an
ACL/EACL/NAACL student session will not be allowed to present again
at the student session of any of these conferences, but is encouraged
to submit instead to the main conference.

3. Submission Procedure

Please see the submission page for more information

4. Reviewing Procedure

The reviewing of submissions will be managed by the Student Workshop
Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each
submission will be matched with a panel of student and senior
researchers for review. The final acceptance decision will be based
on the results of the review.

Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, make
sure you do not put the name(s) of the author(s) on the title page.
(See paper submission requirements for details.)  You should not have
any self-identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for
review. For example, instead of saying "We showed previously (Smith,
1991), ...", say "Smith (1991) previously showed ...".

5. Schedule

Submissions must be received by March 15, midnight EST. Late submissions (those
arriving on or after March 16) will be automatically disqualified.
The student workshop committee is not responsible for postal delays
or other mailing problems.  

Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of
acceptance will be sent to authors by email on April 7.  Detailed
formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready
copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

6. Timetable

(NOTE! submission deadline has been pushed back a week)

Paper submissions deadline:    March 22, midnight EST (hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance:    April 7
Camera ready papers due:       April 11, 9:00am PST (hard deadline)
Workshop date:		       May 30-31

7. Contact Information

Email to hlt-naacl03-student@umich.edu will be forwarded to all
Co-Chairs.

Costas Boulis (Co-Chair, Speech)
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
253 EE/CSE Building
Campus Box 352500
Seattle, WA 98195-2500
USA
boulis AT ee.washington.edu
206-543-4868

Eric Breck (Co-Chair, NLP)
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
USA
ebreck AT cs.cornell.edu
607-255-7081

Victor Lavrenko (Co-Chair, IR)
Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Dr.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9264
USA
lavrenko AT cs.umass.edu
413-545-0728

Marc Light (Faculty Advisor)
Linguistics Dept
School of Lib and Info
University of Iowa
319-335-0263
       -5712
fax    -5374
marc-light AT uiowa.edu