[Asis-l] NAACL HLT 2009: Student Research Workshop --- DEADLINE EXTENSION to Jan 26

Wed Jan 7 14:25:49 EST 2009

NAACL HLT 2009: Student Research Workshop

                            --- DEADLINE EXTENSION ---

The Organizing Committee of the Student Research Workshop at NAACL HLT 2009 in

Boulder, Colorado would like to announce that the deadline for submissions has

been extended to

                 *** Monday January 26, 2009, 23:59 EST. ***

The Student Research Workshop is intended particularly as a venue for PhD and

M.S. students who have a clear research plan and some preliminary results that

indicate that their idea might work. We invite and encourage submission of

work in progress!  Unlike conference papers, we don't expect completely

finished work --- this is a place where you can present and get feedback on

your research plan while your graduate work is still work in progress. Multi-

authored papers are allowed, but the first author of the paper must be a

student, and the paper must be presented by a student at the workshop.

Notification of acceptance is March 2, final versions are due March 31.

Please note the following changes and updates to the orginal CFP:

- It is no longer required that ALL authors of the paper be students.

 However, the first author must be a student, and the paper, if accepted,

 must be presented by a student.

- We are now also accepting short papers (4 pages). These papers are only

 considered for poster presentations. They are not eligible for oral

 presentation and subsequent discussion by panelists.

- Thanks to an NSF grant, we are able to substantially support (although not

 fully fund) conference travel for one student author per full-length (i.e.

 6-page) paper accepted for oral presentation. Poster presentations are not

 eligible for travel support.

- The Student Workshop will be interleaved with the NAACL HLT main conference

 in a way that the student session in each track (IR, Speech, NLP) is not in

 competition with regular sessions in the respective topic area.

The full CFP is enclosed below. 

The NAACL HLT SRWS Organizing Committee 

Carolyn Rose (Faculty Advisor) 
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 

Anoop Sarkar (Faculty Advisor) 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 

Svetlana Stenchikova (Speech Co-Chair) 
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA 

Ulrich Germann (NLP Co-Chair) 
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 

Chirag Shah (Information Retrieval Co-Chair) 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 

                                     New Deadline for 
                     NAACL HLT 2009 Student Research Workshop: Jan 26, 2009

                             May 31-June 5, 2009 in Boulder, CO

The Student Research Workshop will be interleaved with the NAACL HLT 2009 Main

Conference in a way such that the student sessions in each track (IR, Speech,

NLP) are not in competition with regular sessions in the respective topic area.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, January 26th, 2008

Unless otherwise stated, all submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on the specified day. 

1. General Invitation for Submissions 

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 receive feedback from a general audience

as well as from panelists. The panelists are experienced researchers who will

prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the

workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for

suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an

international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on

work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area

within computational linguistics and is understood to be applied to speech

and/or text. A list of topic areas is provided in the Call for Papers for the

NAACL HLT 2009 Conference available at:

http://clear.colorado.edu/NAACLHLT2009/call_for_papers.html

2. Submission Requirements

The emphasis of the workshop is original and unpublished research. The papers

should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their

thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are

particularly encouraged to submit their papers.

Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with

other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of

the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research

wherever appropriate. Multi-authored papers are acceptable if the first author

of the paper is a student, and the paper will be presented by a student author

at the workshop. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible only if they

have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published

proceedings. Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student

Research Workshop may not submit to this workshop. They should submit their

papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been

submitted to another conference or workshop.

3. Submission Procedure

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page below:

https://www.softconf.com/naacl-hlt09/StudentResearch2009/

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should

not exceed six (6) pages, including references. Note that papers that are

shorter than 6 pages may be submitted in consideration for poster presentation

rather than oral presentation.  We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX

style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's

conference. These files are available at:

http://clear.colorado.edu/NAACLHLT2009/stylefiles.html

A description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use

these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic: please use the

submission website above to submit your paper.

4. Reviewing Procedure

Reviewing of papers submitted to the Student Workshop will be managed by the

Student Workshop Co-Chairs, with the assistance of a team of reviewers. Each

submission will be matched with a mixed panel of student and senior researchers

for review. The final acceptance decision will be based on the results of the

review. Note that reviewing of papers will be double-blind; therefore, please

make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should

likewise not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper

submitted for review. For example, rather than this: ''We showed previously

(Smith, 2001), ...'', use citations such as: ''Smith (2001) previously showed

...''.

5. Schedule

The papers must be submitted no later than 11:59 EST, January 26th, 2009. No

papers received after this deadline will be accepted. Acknowledgment will be

emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors

(by email) on March 2nd, 2009. Detailed formatting guidelines for the

preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with

their acceptance notice.

Important Dates: 

Papers due:                 Jan 26, 2009 
Notification of acceptance: Mar  2, 2009 
Camera ready papers due:    Mar 31, 2009 
Conference date:     May 31-June 5, 2009 
(The Student Research Workshop will be held during the NAACL HLT 2009 conference)

6. Contact Information 

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: cprose at cs.cmu.edu

An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Carolyn Rose (Faculty Advisor) 
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 

Anoop Sarkar (Faculty Advisor) 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Svetlana Stenchikova (Speech Co-Chair) 
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Ulrich Germann (NLP Co-Chair) 
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Chirag Shah (Information Retrieval Co-Chair) 
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

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