HLT-NAACL 2006 Call for Papers
Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting
June 4-9, 2006
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06
General Conference Chair: Robert Moore (Microsoft Research)
Program Co-Chairs:
Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington)
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Mark Sanderson (Sheffield University)
Program Committee:
Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh)
Jamie Callan (CMU)
Joyce Chai (Michigan State University)
Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)
Mark Gales (University of Cambridge)
Fred Gey (Berkeley)
Roxana Girju (UIUC)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (UIUC)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Alon Lavie (CMU)
Wei Ying Ma (Microsoft Beijing)
Mehryar Mohri (NYU)
Marius Pasca (Google)
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)
Owen Rambow (Columbia University)
Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
Stefan Riezler (PARC)
Amanda Stent (SUNY Stony Brook)
Rohini Srihari (SUNY Buffalo)
Michael Strube (EML Research)
Christoph Tillmann (IBM Watson)
Peter Turney (National Research Council Canada)
Ellen Voorhees (NIST)
Ralph Weischedel (BBN)
Fei Xia (University of Washington)
ChengXiang Zhai (UIUC)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Beijing)
Local Arrangements Chair: Satoshi Sekine (New York University)
HLT-NAACL 2006 continues the combination of the Human Language
Technology Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings
begun in 2003. Human language technology incorporates a broad spectrum
of disciplines working towards enabling computers to interact with
humans using natural language, and providing services such as speech
recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text
summarization, and information extraction.
HLT-NAACL 2006 will run from Sunday June 4 through Friday June 9. The
schedule will include full papers, late-breaking (short) papers,
demonstrations, as well as pre- and post-conference tutorials and
workshops. The conference organization is overseen by a board
representing the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (NAACL), HLT funding agencies in North
America, as well as the SIGIR and ISCA communities.
Topics of Interest
The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of human language
processing, with special interest in synergistic combinations of
language technologies (e.g., Speech with Information Retrieval,
Machine Translation with Speech, Question Answering with Natural
Language Processing, etc.). Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:
- Speech processing, including:
o Speech recognition and speech generation
o Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information structure
and sources in speech
- Information extraction, text summarization, and question answering
- Information retrieval
- Computational analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, discourse, style
- Statistical and learning techniques for language processing, including
o Corpus-based language modeling
o Lexical and knowledge acquisition
- Language generation and text planning
- Multilingual processing, including
o Machine translation of speech and text
o Cross-language information retrieval
o Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
- Multimodal representations and processing
- Evaluation, including
o Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
o Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings
- Development of language resources, including
o Lexicons and ontologies
o Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
- Understanding of human communication, including
o Natural language interfaces
o Dialogue structure and dialogue systems
o Message and narrative understanding systems
Submission Information
Full Papers
Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed,
unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when
appropriate. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,
technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and
interest to the attendees. As reviewing will be blind, no information
identifying the authors should be in the paper: this includes not only
the authors' names and affiliations, 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". Separate identification information is required, and will be
part of the web submission process.
Format: Submissions must be electronic in PDF, should follow the
two-column format of ACL proceedings, and should not exceed eight (8)
pages, including references. Please see the conference website for
detailed typesetting specifications. Authors are strongly encouraged
to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files available on the
conference website.
Reviewing: The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will
be managed by a Conference Program Committee consisting of senior
Program Committee Members and associated Program Committee
Members. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program
committee members.
Submission procedure: A PDF file of the paper must be uploaded onto
the system by 11:59pm EST of the deadline. Papers submitted after that
time will not be reviewed. Authors who cannot submit a PDF file
electronically should contact the program co-chairs
(bilmes@ee.washington.edu, jencc@us.ibm.com, or
m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk) before the due date to work out alternate
arrangements.
Late-Breaking (Short) Papers
The procedure for Short Papers submissions is identical to that for
Full Papers, except that
1. They may be accepted for oral presentation in plenary OR for
presentation in a poster session;
2. The deadlines are later for short papers and posters than for full papers;
3. Short papers are restricted to four (4) pages in length, using the
two-column ACL format;
4. Only two reviews per submission are guaranteed.
Multiple-Submission Policy
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information at submission time. In the
event of multiple acceptances, authors must notify the program chairs
as to the meeting they choose to present their work by February 27,
2006, at the latest in order for their work to be included in the
proceedings. HLT-NAACL 2006 cannot accept for publication work that
will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Papers that overlap with
other papers that have appeared at a conference with published
proceedings must contain significant new results. Authors must include
on the title page a list of previous papers that overlap with the
submission, and identify significant new results contained in the
submission. The program co-chairs have the final decision about what
constitutes significant new results.
Important Dates
December 16, 2005 Full Paper submissions due
February 23, 2006 Full Paper notification of acceptance
March 3, 2006 Short Paper submissions due
April 6, 2006 Short Paper notification of acceptance
April 17, 2006 Camera-ready full/short papers due
June 4-9, 2006 Conference
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/
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Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 22648
Department of Information Studies Fax: +44 (0) 114 27 80300
University of Sheffield, Regent Court, mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk
Portobello St, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
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