Subject: [E-CFP] ACL99 CFP: General and Thematic Sessions
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ACL '99 Call for Papers
37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
20--26 June, 1999
University of Maryland
[You may find it easier to read this information on the Web at
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99]
1. Paper Sessions
1.1 Topics of Interest
In a break with tradition, at this year's ACL conference we are
experimenting with a new format. The technical sessions of the
conference will be of two kinds. There will be General Sessions of the
kind that have formed the conference programme in the past; however,
there will also be a number of special Thematic Sessions, somewhat
like a special issue of a journal, organised around themes proposed by
members of the computational linguistics community. Our aim is to
incorporate some of the intensity and excitement of the traditional
post-conference workshops, without replacing those workshops. The
conference structure will mean that the Thematic Sessions will run as
parallel sessions, resulting in smaller and more focussed
audiences. When you submit a paper to the conference, you will need to
consider whether you want to present the paper in the General Sessions
or in one of the Thematic Sessions, which are listed below.
For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics,
including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics,
syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology;
interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic,
mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented
information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based
language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural
language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating
the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message
and narrative understanding systems.
Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted
at specific topics. The complete list of Thematic Sessions is as
follows; further information about each can be found at the indicated URL.
D1: Dialogue Management in Interactive Spoken Dialogue Systems
Chairs: Diane Litman and Marilyn Walker
Motivation: The advent of real-time interactive spoken
dialogue systems poses special challenges for dialogue
management.
Topics: evaluation, dialogue strategies, repair, system integration,
learning/optimizing system behavior, corpus analysis, robust
processing, and the requirements dialogue places on
generation, speech recognition and synthesis.
http://www.research.att.com/~diane/acl99-theme.html
D2: Discourse Tagging: Uses, Results and Applications
Chairs: Marilyn Walker, Julia Hirschberg and Owen Rambow
Motivation: Empirical approaches to discourse processing often rely on
tagging texts or dialogues with discourse tags from a wide
range of tag sets.
Topics: Discourse tagging for training or testing models of discourse
structure, reference, translation, speech acts, topic
identification, and speech recognition.
http://www.research.att.com/~walker/dtag-acl99.html
D3: Corpus-Based Approaches to Discourse and Dialogue
Chair: Nancy Ide
This theme treats corpus-based work on any aspect of discourse and
dialogue analysis, including co-reference, segmentation,
discourse structure, parsing, generation, etc., especially in
the light of relevance to practical applications.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/calls/acl99-discourse.html
D4: Lexicon and Discourse: Connections through Structure and Semantics
Chairs: Laurence Danlos, Alistair Knott, and Bonnie Webber
Motivation: With the lexicon becoming a central resource for computing
properties of the sentence, one may consider similar gains for
computing properties of discourse.
Topics: Lexical semantics of discourse connectives and focus
particles, discourse and lexical interpretation, lexicalized
grammars for discourse.
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~alik/ACLtheme.html
I1: NLP Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Chair: Douglas Oard
Motivation: Systems that use queries or examples in one natural
language to find text or speech in another are becoming
increasingly important.
Topics: NLP techniques for query translation, cognate matching and
interlingual matching techniques, cross-language gisting using
summarization or gloss translation.
http://www.clis.umd.edu/conferences/acl99clir/
I2: Exploring the Limits of Shallow Parsing
Chair: Gregory Grefenstette
Shallow parsing techniques provide a partial analysis of the syntactic
structures. Theme covers research into: quantifying
identifiable linguistic phenomena in a corpus; evaluating
accuracy of dependency relations extracted by shallow parsers;
approximation of full parsing with shallow parsers.
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/DMHead/ACL99
I3: Information Extraction from Spoken Language Data
Chairs: Lynette Hirschman and David Palmer
Motivation: Identifying relevant syntactic and semantic items (such as
names, dates, and events) in speech data requires robust
processing of misspellings, transcription errors, tokenization
ambiguities and disfluencies.
Topics: algorithms, architectures, and evaluation techniques for noisy
data information extraction
http://raven.bu.edu/conferences/ACL-IE99/
I4: Natural Language Processing for Interactive Information Retrieval
Chair: Hinrich Sch|tze
This theme solicits papers that use NLP to enable better interactive
information retrieval. Examples include query analysis,
disambiguation, and classification of queries into semantic
hierarchies, but we are especially interested in novel ideas.
ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/qca/schuetze/acl99.html
I5: Robust Sentence-Level Interpretation
Chairs: Carolyn Penstein Rose and Alon Lavie
In contrast to information extraction and shallow parsing techniques,
in this session we focus on robust approaches to full sentence
interpretation, with an emphasis on empirical evaluation.
Topics: pre-parsing repair, robust parsing, post-parsing repair, and
user interaction.
http://www.pitt.edu/~rosecp/topic.html
I6: Topic Detection
Chairs: James Allan and Bruce Croft
We examine discovering structure and themes across many texts: finding
the topics that underlie the text. It includes summarization,
theme extraction, TDT detection, concept extraction,
high-quality clustering, and related evaluations.
http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/acl99
L1: Parsing of inflective, agglutinative and/or free word order languages
Chair: Jan Hajic
Parsing of languages displaying non-analytical, non-fixed word
order behavior to a large extent poses specific problems which
are expected to be addressed. All aspects of dealing with such
problems are welcome, including morphological, syntactic and
semantic processing.
http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
L2: MT/NLP for Languages of Low Diffusion
Chairs: Doug Jones and Boyan Onyshkevych
Motivation: Adequate large-scale MT or other NLP systems do not exist
for the bulk of the world's languages, nor are there
significant on-line resources for them.
Topics: how to build large-scale MT/NLP systems and resources for
these other languages; how to leverage minimal resources
(including native language expertise)
L3: Word Segmentation and Lexical Acquisition in Asian Languages
Chair: Masaaki Nagata
Motivation: Exchange ideas and experiences on word segmentation among
Asian researchers as well as between Asian and Western
researchers.
Topics: Theories and applications of tokenization and dictionary
construction techniques for languages that do not put space
between words, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Thai.
http://www.milab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/word-seg-acl99
M1: Automated Analysis and Evaluation of Free Text
Chairs: Jill Burstein and Claudia Leacock
Motivation: To bring together researchers who are interested in the
evaluation of essays and other free text for purposes of
assessment and instruction.
Topics: Identification and analysis of textual features; generation of
feedback to authors; evaluation of system results.
http://www.ets.org/research/acl99.html
M2: The Use of Large-Coverage Lexical Resources for Tagging and
Parsing
Chair: Max Silberztein
Motivation: To present dictionary-based projects and results whose
starting point is either machine readable dictionaries, raw
lists or large corpora
Topics: large-coverage lexical resources, construction of
dictionaries, corpus processing
http://www.ladl.jussieu.fr/confs/acl99/acl99.html
M3: Prosody Modelling In NLG/Speech Generation
Chairs: Elke Teich and Sandra Williams
Motivation: Integrating natural language generation and speech
synthesis.
Topics: Reconciling syntactic, semantic and prosodic representations;
determination of intonation focus and contour according to
context; adaptations of NLG architectures for speech generation.
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~swilliam/acl99theme/
M4: Design, Implementation, and Uses of Controlled Languages
Chairs: Tony Hartley and Cecile Paris
Motivation: Controlled languages are increasingly used to enhance
readability, facilitate automatic processing of documents, and
guide input to generation systems. Important concerns are the
development and enforcement of controlled languages.
Topics: authoring environments, design principles, corpus analysis,
controlled language applications.
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/acl99/clang.html
M5: Computational Psycholinguistics
Chair: Philip Resnik
Motivation: Discussing empirical and theoretical studies on
psychologically motivated computational models of human
language processes, as opposed to NLP applications, emphasizing
non-introspective data, statistical methods, and the relationship
between linguistic competence and performance.
Topics: Computational studies involving processes such as lexical
access, parsing, interpretation, generation, disambiguation,
acquisition.
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/acl99_cpl/
Before submitting a paper to a Thematic Session, you should read the
information about each of these themes provided on the separate web
pages.
During the conference itself, some sessions may be video-taped.
Presenters will be alerted to this possibility and will be able to
request that the cameras are turned off during their presentations.
1.2 Requirements
Requirements are the same regardless of whether your are submitting a
paper to the general sessions or the thematic sessions; see the
separate Call for Student Papers for information on requirements for
papers submitted to the Student Sessions. Papers should describe
original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than
intended work and they should indicate clearly the state of completion
of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation
results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the
ACL Meeting 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 on the title
page.
1.3 Format for Submission
The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether your are
submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions;
see the separate Call for Student Papers for information on
requirements for papers submitted to the Student Sessions. Authors
should submit preliminary versions of their papers for review, not to
exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers should be headed
by a title page containing the paper ID code (see below), the names of
all authors, the title, a short (5 line) summary, up to five keywords
specifying the subject area (for the General Sessions) or an
indication of the Thematic Session to which the paper is being
submitted, the word count (excluding figures and bibliography) and a
notice of multiple submission, if required. Papers outside the
specified length and/or without an ID code are liable to rejection
without review.
To identify each paper, an ID code must be acquired by filing an
electronic paper registration form, available on the web at
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/register.html: on successful
completion of this form an ID code will be sent to the designated
author by e-mail. If you cannot access the electronic paper
registration form, send email to acl99@mri.mq.edu.au with subject
IDFORM for an automatic reply.
To assist in the refereeing process, we would be very grateful if
authors prepare a web-browsable (e.g. HTML, PostScript, PDF)
electronic version of their papers. The electronic paper registration
form contains a field where you can provide this information.
We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and
trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of
submissions. These styles include a place for the required information
such as ID code and word count, and allow for a graceful transition to
the style required for publication. These files are available from
the conference web site at http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99.
If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of
the required format is at
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/style/substyle.html. If you cannot
access this web page, send email to acl99@mri.mq.edu.au with subject
SUBSTYLE for an automatic reply.
1.4 Submission and Reviewing Procedure
The submission procedure is the same regardless of whether your are
submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions;
see the separate Call for Student Papers for information on submission
details for papers submitted to the Student Sessions. Four (4) paper
copies of each paper (printed on both sides of the page if possible)
should be submitted to the following address:
ACL Programme Committee
c/o Ken Church
AT&T Labs - Research
180 Park Ave, Office D235
PO Box 971
Florham Park
NJ 07932-0971
USA
Enquiries can be addressed to the Programme Committee by email at
acl99@mri.mq.edu.au (Robert Dale, Chair and Ken Church, co-Chair). In
extreme cases, if you cannot make contact electronically you can reach
us by sending a fax, clearly marked "ACL Programme Committee", to +61
2 9850 9529. This fax number is for information enquiries only. PLEASE
NOTE THAT FAXED SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will, as in
previous years, be managed by an international Conference Programme
Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the
assistance of a team of reviewers. Reviewing of papers for the
Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic
Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers; final decisions
on the technical programme content (both General Sessions and Thematic
Sessions) will be made by the Programme Committee.
1.5 Schedule
Submissions must be received by January 25th 1999. Late submissions
(those arriving on or after January 26th 1999) will be returned
unopened. Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after
receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email)
on March 22nd 1999. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a
double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be
received by May 3rd 1999, along with a signed copyright release
statement. Detailed formatting guidelines will be provided to authors
with their acceptance notice. The paper sessions, including general,
theme and student papers, will take place on June 23rd--26th 1999.
2. Student Sessions
There will again be special Student Sessions organized by a committee
of ACL graduate student members. ACL student members are invited to
submit short papers on any of the topics listed above for the General
Sessions. The papers will be reviewed by a committee of students and
faculty members for presentation in workshop-style sessions and
publication in a special section of the conference proceedings. A
separate Call for Papers for the Student Sessions is being issued and
is available at http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~melanie/acl99/.
3. Tutorials
The meeting will include a programme of tutorials on June 20th 1999
immediately preceding the workshops and technical sessions, and at the
same venue as the conference. A separate Call for Tutorial Proposals
is being issued and is available at
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/acl99tut.html.
4. Workshops
As in other years, ACL '99 will be accompanied by a number of
workshops. These will be held on June 21st--22nd 1999, immediately
after the tutorials and before the technical sessions. The ACL has a
policy on workshops. A separate Call for Workshop Proposals will be
issued soon.
5. Demos
A separate Call for Demo Proposals will be issued at a later date.
6. Venue and Local Organisation
The conference will be held at the University of Maryland from 20th
through 26th June, 1999. The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired
by Bonnie Dorr; see
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/CLIP/acl99/index.html for local
arrangements information.
7. Timetable
The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic
Sessions: see the separate Calls for Student Session Papers, Tutorial
Proposals and Workshops for the timetabling associated with those
elements of the conference.
Paper submissions deadline: January 25, 1999
Notification of acceptance: March 22, 1999
Camera ready papers due: May 3, 1999
ACL'99 Conference: June 20--26, 1999
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