Call for Papers
Student Research Workshop
at ACL-02
July 6-11, 2002
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
submission deadline: February 22th, 2002
Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly
established yet. Tentatively, the Workshop may take place
anytime between July 6 - 11, 2002
1. General Invitation for Submissions
The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. The main purpose of the workshop is to provide 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.
We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to
the workshop. As the main mission of the workshop is to provide
feedback, the emphasis will be on work in progress. Original and
unpublished research is invited on all aspects of computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to these topic areas:
pragmatics
discourse
semantics
syntax
lexicon
phonetics and phonology
morphology
linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
information retrieval
information extraction
question answering
summarization
generation
speech recognition and synthesis
corpus-based language modeling
multi-lingual processing
machine translation and translation aids
spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
language in multi-modal systems
message and narrative understanding systems
The main conference will also feature tutorials, workshops, and
demos. More information on these can be found at the main
ACL-02 page, www.acl02.org <http://www.acl02.org>.
2. Submission Requirements
Papers should describe original work, either in progress or
completed. It will therefore normally be open only 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. 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
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 encouraged to submit instead to the main conference.
3. Submission Procedure
Paper Registration
Registration of your submission is required. This can be done by
filling out a form available at the Student workshop pages of
the conference site.
After you fill out and submit this form, a unique ID number will
be generated and sent to you in an e-mail shortly after the paper
registration. You will then be able to use this ID number instead
of your name on the title page of the paper and in any subsequent
correspondence with the workshop co-chairs.
If you are unable to use the on-line form for paper registration or
experience problems using it, please send email to
acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de <mailto:acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de>
Submission format
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL
proceedings and should not exceed six (6) pages,
including references. We strongly recommend the use of
ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files
tailored for this year's conference. These will soon be
available from the student workshop pages of the
conference site.
These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style
required for publication. A description of the format will also be
available in case you are unable to use these style files directly.
Separate items to be submitted
Identification page
Title:
Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
Author(s) name(s) affiliation and e-mail addresses
Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify)
Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
Title page
Title:
Paper ID code: (generated at paper registration)
Topic Area: (one or two general topic areas)
Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area
Under Consideration for Other Conferences: (if yes, please specify)
Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
A CV or letter from your advisor indicating that you meet the
submission requirements specified in Section 2.
Electronic and Hardcopy Submissions
Electronic submissions as well as hard copy submissions are
acceptable. If you are submitting your paper electronically,
only the following formats will be acceptable:
PostScript (.ps)
Rich Text Format ACL style (.rtf)
Microsoft Word ACL style(.doc)
PDF (.pdf)
Electronic submissions should be sent in an attachment to the
following e-mail address: acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de <mailto:acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de>
If you are submitting a hard copy of your paper, please send six
double-sided copies of your paper (two copies should have the
identification page attached, four should have the title page
attached) to the following address:
ACL-02 Student Workshop
c/o Gideon Mann
Department of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
4. Reviewing Procedure
Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed
by the Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team
of reviewers. Each submission will be matched with a mixed panel
of student and senior researchers for review. The final acceptance
decision will be made based on the results of the review.
Note that reviewing of papers will be blind; therefore, please, make
sure you do not put the author(s) name(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, you can't have a reference like this "We showed
previously (Smith, 1991), ..." Instead, use citations such as "Smith
previously showed (Smith, 1991)..."
5. Schedule
Submissions must be received by February 22nd, 2002. Late
submissions (those arriving on or after February 23rd, 2002) will
be automatically disqualified. The student workshop committee is
not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. For
electronic submissions, all time zones will be taken into
account). Acknowledgment will be emailed soon after
receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by
email) on April 8th, 2002. Detailed formatting guidelines for the
preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to
authors with their acceptance notice.
6. Timetable
Important Dates:
Paper registration deadline: February 15th, 2002
Paper submissions deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 8th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: May 10th, 2002
7. Contact Information
If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please
use: acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de <mailto:acl02-student@coli.uni-sb.de>.
An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.
Alexander Koller (Co-Chair)
Department of Computational Linguistics
Universität des Saarlandes
66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
E-mail: koller@coli.uni-sb.de <mailto:koller@coli.uni-sb.de>
Phone: +49 681 302 4347
Fax: +49 681 302 4351
Gideon Mann (Co-Chair)
Department of Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
E-mail: gsm@cs.jhu.edu <mailto:gsm@cs.jhu.edu>
Phone: +1 410 516 7052
Fax: +1 410 516 6134
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