**** NAACL HLT 2007 Preliminary Call for Papers ****
Human Language Technologies:
The Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics
April 22-28, 2007, Rochester, New York
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07
General Conference Chair: Candace Sidner (Mitsubishi Electric
Research Laboratories)
Program Co-Chairs:
Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon University)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Local Arrangements: James Allen, Len Schubert, and Dan Gildea
(University of Rochester)
NAACL HLT 2007 continues the tradition of the combined Human Language
Technology
Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational
Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings begun in 2003. 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. NAACL HLT 2007 will
feature full papers,
late-breaking (short) papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral
consortium, as well as
pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops. The conference is
organized by
the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL),
who is advised by a board representing the IR and speech communities
and North American
HLT funding agencies.
Topics of Interest:
The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial,
original, and unpublished
research in disciplines that could impact human language processing
systems, with a
special focus on theories and methods that enable compelling
combinations of human
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:
- Computational analysis of language
Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialogue,
discourse, style
- Speech processing, including:
Speech recognition and speech generation
Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information
structure and sources in speech
- Information retrieval, text classification, and information
filtering/recommendation
Text data mining, information extraction, text summarization,
and question answering
- Multimodal representations and processing
- Statistical and learning techniques for language, including
Corpus-based language modeling
Lexical and knowledge acquisition
- Development of language resources, including
Lexicons and ontologies
Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
- Language generation and text planning
- Multilingual processing, including
Machine translation of speech and text
Cross-language information retrieval
Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
- Intelligent systems for natural language interaction, including
Conversational systems for collaboration, tutoring and
behavioral intervention
Embodied conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot
conversation
Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative and
digital entertainment
- Evaluation, including
Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings
Submission information:
Full papers: Submissions must describe original, completed,
unpublished work and
should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings without
exceeding eight pages,
including references. Each submission will be judged chiefly on the
strength of
the argument it provides in support of its contribution, through e.g.
experimental
evaluation, theoretical analysis, or critical engagement with HLT.
Reviewing will
be double-blind; each submission will be reviewed by at least three
program
committee members.
Late-breaking (short) papers: Submissions describing original,
unpublished work
can be submitted as short papers with a later deadline. The
submissions should
follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings without exceeding
four pages,
including references. Reviewing will be double-blind; each
submission will be
reviewed by at least two program committee members. Short paper
submissions
may be accepted for oral presentation in plenary OR for presentation
in a poster session.
Demonstration, doctoral consortium, tutorial, and workshop
proposals: Submission
instructions will be available later.
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 by
January 5, 2007, indicating which meeting they choose for
presentation of their work.
HLT-NAACL 2007 cannot accept for publication work that will be (or
has been)
published elsewhere.
**** Important Dates:
Oct 13, 2006 Full paper submissions due
Dec 22, 2006 Full paper notification of acceptance
Jan 18, 2007 Short paper submissions due
Feb 22, 2007 Short Paper notification of acceptance
Mar 5, 2007 Camera-ready full/short papers due
Apr 22-28, 2007 Conference
Please visit http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07 for
more information.
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