========================================================= ========================================================= ACL 2007 NEWSLETTER NO. 2 (January 19, 2007) ========================================================= ========================================================= ========================================================= :: Important Dates ========================================================= Main conference paper submission deadline: January 23, 2007 Student research workshop paper submission deadline: January 23, 2007 No extensions will be granted. Workshops: June 23-24 and 28-30, 2007 Tutorials: June 24, 2007 Main conference: June 25-27, 2007 ========================================================= :: Table of Contents ========================================================= 1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic 2. Organising Committee 3. Main Conference Call for Papers 4. Student Research Workshop Call for Papers 5. Tutorials 6. Workshops 7. Recommended Accommodation 8. Sponsorship 9. Newsletter No. 3 ========================================================= :: 1. ACL 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic ========================================================= The conference is organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague ("Univerzita Karlova v Praze"), Czech Republic, the oldest University in Europe north of the Alps (founded in 1348). The conference will take place in the TOP HOTEL Praha, located in the quiet neighborhood of the Prague 4 district, only 15-20 minutes from the historic center of Prague. The hotel can accommodate up to 1000 participants on-site (with a small number of dormitory rooms available nearby). The hotel offers one auditorium, three large lecture rooms, number of smaller rooms for tutorials and workshops, several restaurants and cafes and lot of open air space for walks and informal discussions. The conference banquet and a conference concert will take place in the historic buildings in the city center -- one in the Municipal Hall (built in the Art-nouveau style of the early 20th century) and the other in the 14th century main University Hall. ========================================================= :: 2. Organising Committee ========================================================= General Chair: John Carroll Local Arrangements Chair: Eva Hajicova Program Chairs: Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch Student Workshop Chairs: Violeta Seretan and Chris Biemann, with Ellen Riloff Workshops Chair: Simone Teufel Tutorials Chair: Joakim Nivre Demos/Posters Chair: Sophia Ananiadou Exhibits Chair: Jaroslava Hlavacova and Pavel Pecina Sponsorship: Martha Palmer, Gabor Proszeky and Jan Hajic Publicity: Pavel Stranak and Jiri Mirovsky Publications: Su Jian Mentoring Service: Florence Reeder Student Volunteers: Marketa Lopatkova Website: Zlatica Subrova and Juraj Simlovic Secretariat: Priscilla Rasmussen and Anna Kotesovcova ========================================================= :: 3. Main Conference Call for Papers ========================================================= Program Co-Chairs: Annie Zaenen (PARC, USA) Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2007, 5pm US Eastern time (10pm GMT) Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2007 Camera ready papers due: May 4, 2007 The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 45th Annual Meeting. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; lexical semantics and ontologies; word segmentation, tagging and chunking; parsing; generation and summarization; language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language; document retrieval, question answering, information extraction, and text mining; machine learning for natural language; corpus-based modeling of language, discourse and dialogue; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; applications, tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2007.org/ ========================================================= :: 4. Student Research Workshop Call for Papers ========================================================= Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs: Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Chris Biemann (University of Leipzig, Germany) Ellen Riloff, Faculty Advisor (University of Utah, USA) Important Dates: Paper submissions deadline: January 23, 2007, 5pm US Eastern time (10pm GMT) Notification of acceptance: March 23, 2007 Camera ready papers due: April 27, 2007 The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and to receive feedback both from the general audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress. Original and unpublished research is therefore invited on all aspects of computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas: - pragmatics and discourse - semantics and lexicons - syntax and grammars - phonetics, phonology, and morphology - linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language - information retrieval, information extraction, and question answering - summarization and paraphrasing - speech recognition and speech synthesis - corpus-based language modeling - multi-lingual processing, machine translation, and translation aids - spoken and written natural language interfaces and dialogue systems - multi-modal language processing and multimedia systems - narrative understanding systems For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2007.org/ Travel Grants: Some funding will be available for students whose work is accepted to the Student Research Workshop. For more information about travel grants, please contact the co-chairs of the Student Research Workshop. ========================================================= :: 5. Tutorials ========================================================= The following tutorials will be offered at ACL-07 in Prague, June 24, 2007: - Usability and Performance Evaluation for Advanced Spoken Dialogue Systems (Michael McTear, Kristiina Jokinen) - Nonparametric Structured Models (Percy Liang, Dan Klein) - Textual Entailment (Ido Dagan, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Dan Roth) - Quality Control of Corpus Annotation Through Reliability Measures (Ron Artstein) - From Web Content Mining to Natural Language Processing (Bing Liu) ========================================================= :: 6. Workshops ========================================================= Following 15 workshops will be held at ACL 2007: 2-day * SemEval 2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations 1.5-day * Joint Workshop on Entailment and Paraphrase and 3rd PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE-3) Challenge * Joint Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2 (FLAC2) and Sixth NLPXML Workshop 1 day * ACL SIGMORPHON Computational Research in Morphology and Phonology, Special Theme: Computational Historical Linguistics * NLP for Balto-Slavonic languages, Special Focus on IE * Grammar-based approaches to spoken language processing * Deep Linguistic Processing * Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition * Embodied Language Processing * BioNLP'07 * Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation .5 day * Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources * A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions * Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data * 4th ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions ========================================================= :: 7. Recommended Accommodation ========================================================= It is recommended that participants make a reservation at the venue of the conference (The Top Hotel in Prague). Please go directly to the Top Hotel's reservation page to make a reservation. The Local Arrangements Committee has negotiated the following reduced prices for a block of rooms available to ACL participants: Double room EXECUTIVE 3080 CZK/night Double room STANDARD 1960 CZK/night The prices include a breakfast buffet, all fees and taxes, VAT and free entrance to the wellness centre. A smaller block of rooms is available, also for a reduced price, in the adjoined "GARNI TOP HOTEL": Double room GARNI HOTEL 992 CZK/night For these prices to apply, please use the "code" "the ACL 2007 Congress" in the section named "Detailed information, comments and desires" on the reservation page. ========================================================= :: 8. Sponsorship ========================================================= Chairs very gratefully acknowledge the following committments in sponsorship confirmed as of this day: Google - Gold Sponsor, $5,000.00 Microsoft - Silver Sponsor, $4,000.00 BBN and IBM - Bronze Sponsors, $1,000.00, with the IBM sponsorship earmarked for the Best Student Paper Award. Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or finding out more about sponsorship opportunities is encouraged to contact any of the chairs at the following e-mail addresses. Gabor Proszeky Jan Hajic Jun'ichi Tsujii Martha Palmer ========================================================= :: 9. Newsletter No. 3 ========================================================= ACL Newsletter No. 3 will be published before the end of February, giving among other things more information on registration and workshop time schedule.