SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL 2001).
We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to:
Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in
corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme:
Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical
methods in and across application settings. Examples include
improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing
language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word
segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased
speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical
parsing.
Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods
have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to
future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the
limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers
that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the
identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in
which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between
human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches
have made great progress; and important practical situations where
common assumptions fail to hold. We emphasize that we seek
submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather
than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. It is desired that
such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation,
of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result.
Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should
be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and
affilations, but also self-references that reveal authors' identities;
for example, "We have previously shown (Smith 1999)" should be changed
to "Smith (1999) has previously shown". A separate identification
page is required: see below.
Second, six hardcopies of the paper (without identifying information)
together with a single separate page listing all the
information from the notice of intent to submit (i.e., title, authors,
contact author, keywords, summary, and multiple-submission information
-- a printout of the notice of intent to submit suffices) must be
received by March 13 at the following
address:
The EMNLP committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mail
problems. Papers will not be accepted electronically, and submissions
that do not conform to the guidelines above are subject to rejection
without review.
Regina Barzilay, Columbia
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Submissions
Paper title
Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
Contact author
A short list of keywords
A short (no more than 5 lines) summary of the contents
Whether or not the paper is under consideration for other conferences
(please specify)
EMNLP 2001 Submissions
Lillian Lee
4130 Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
USA
Important Dates
Notification deadline: March 9, 2001
Submission deadline: March 13, 2001
Acceptance notification: April 13, 2001
Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2001
Conference: June 3-4, 2001
Program Committee (confirmed so far)
Donna Harman (co-chair), NIST, donna.harman@nist.gov
Thorsten Brants, Xerox
Chris Brew, Ohio State University
Eugene Charniak, Brown University
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
Ken Church, AT&T Research
Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh
Michael Collins, AT&T Research
Eric Gaussier, Xerox
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Don Hindle, AnswerLogic
Changning Huang, Microsoft
Rebecca Hwa, University of Maryland
Hitoshi Iida, Sony
Paul Jacobs, AnswerLogic
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI
Maghi King, University of Geneva
Wessel Kraaij, TNO-TPD
Maria Lapata, Saarland University
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Marc Light, MITRE
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
Kim-Teng Lua, National University of Singapore
Lluís Màrquez, Technical University of Catalonia
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paola Merlo, University of Geneva
Rada Mihalcea, Southern Methodist University
Guenter Neumann, DFKI
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Franz Josef Och, RWTH Aachen
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Erik Tjong Sang Kim, University of Antwerp
Anoop Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania
Paola Velardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Atro Voutilainen, Conexor
Kiri Wagstaff, Cornell University
Roman Yangarber, New York University
Joe Zhou, Intel
Conference URL
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html
Archives
Preliminary call for papers