Call For Papers
The deadline for Papers submission has expired.
This call is included for reference only.
Submission deadline
January 23, 2007, 5pm US Eastern time (10pm GMT)
People behind the conference
- General Conference Chair:
- John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK)
- Program Co-Chairs:
- Annie Zaenen (PARC, U.S.A.)
- Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Local Organization Chair:
- Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Topics
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 Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics,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.
Requirements
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting, including ACL-related workshops and conferences, cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.
Reviewing
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs and associated Program Committee Members. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Program Co-Chairs and Area Chairs. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.
Submission Information
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. Papers must conform to the official ACL-07 style guidelines, and we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles including font size restrictions.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or software) that could reveal the author's identity should be avoided. For example, instead of "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", write "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Submission will be electronic, using the START paper submission webpage. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than 5pm US Eastern time January 23, 2007 (10pm GMT January 23, 2007). Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. Please consult the submission web page for details of the submission procedure. Questions regarding the submission procedure should be directed to the Program Co-Chairs (zaenen@parc.com or antal.vdnbosch@uvt.nl).
Deadlines
| Paper submission deadline | January 23, 2007 5pm EST (10pm GMT) |
|---|---|
| Notification of acceptance | March 23, 2007 |
| Camera ready papers due | May 4, 2007 |
| ACL-07 Conference | June 23-30, 2007 |
Area Chairs
- Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, UK)
- Kees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- Barbara di Eugenio (University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA)
- Jozef van Genabith (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)
- Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA)
- Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
- Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Mentoring Service
ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Florence Reeder (Mitre, USA), who has agreed to organize this service for ACL-07. If you would like to take advantage of the service, email a draft of your paper in pdf, ps or doc format to: freeder@mitre.org (Florence Reeder).
The paper should arrive before December 15, 2006. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor will get back to you by January 15, 2007, at least seven days before the deadline for the submission to ACL-07 program committee. Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers.
If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Florence Reeder.
