ACL HLT 2011 - ACL HLT 2011 The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

To be held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in
Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-24, 2011

ACL-HLT 2011 Call for Papers

Long Paper Submission Deadline: December 17, 2010
Short Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2011
The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Human Language Technologies conference will be organized as a single event to be held in Portland, Oregon, on June 19-24, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. ACL-HLT 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. The conference is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics, in cooperation with The North American Chapter of the ACL.

The conference invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including but not limited to:

Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval
Language Resources
Lexical Semantics
Lexicon and ontology development
Linguistic Creativity
Machine Translation
Multilinguality
Multimodal representations and processing
NLP for Web 2.0
NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
Natural Language Processing Applications
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Spoken Language Processing
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Summarization and Generation
Syntax and Parsing
Text Classification
Text Mining
User Studies and Evaluation Methods

Important Dates

Long Submission Deadline: 12/17
Long Notification: 02/11
Long Camera Ready Deadline: 04/15
Short Submission Deadline: 02/25
Short Notification: 04/08
Short Camera Ready Deadline: 04/22
Conference Starts: 06/19

Submission Information

Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
ACL-HLT 2011 will also accept papers accompanied by the resource (software or data) described in the paper. In addition to the regular review of the research quality of the paper, these papers will also be reviewed for the quality of the resource that is being made available. A separate review process will be organized for the research papers and for the accompanying resources. Papers that are submitted with accompanying software/data will receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation score, and acceptance or rejection decision will be made based on the quality of both the research and the software/data component.

Long papers
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentation as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between full papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations. The deadline for long papers is December 17, 2010 (PDT).

Submission is electronic using paper submission software at:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/papers/

Short papers
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references. Short papers will be published in a separate volume, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentations. The deadline for short papers is February 25th. The following types of papers are appropriate for a short paper submission:

A small, focused contribution
Work in progress
A negative result
An opinion piece
An interesting application nugget
Format
Both long and short paper submissions should follow the two-column format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference, which are available on the conference website under Information for Authors. Submissions must conform to the official ACL-HLT 2011 style guidelines, which are contained in the style files, and they must be electronic in PDF.

As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Authors that choose to also submit the supporting software/data with their paper, will have to ensure that the resource is ready for distribution, with complete README files and all the information required so that the reviewers can evaluate and/or use at least a part of the resource. The software/data component does not have to be anonymized, and it will be evaluated by a different set of reviewers than those reviewing the research component of the paper. The resource associated with papers being accepted for publication at ACL-HLT 2011 will be publicly distributed along with the online version of the conference proceedings.

ACL-HLT 2011 Style Files
Important: Remove authors information from your manuscripts when submitting them for blind review!

Latex MS Word
acl-hlt2011.tex acl-hlt2011.doc
acl-hlt2011.sty acl-hlt2011.dot
acl-hlt2011.pdf acl-hlt2011.pdf
acl.bst
Multiple-submission policy
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. If ACL-HLT 2011 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program chairs, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. ACL-HLT 2011 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

Mentoring Service

ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a 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. If you would like to take advantage of the service, please upload your paper in PDF format by November 1, 2010 using the paper submission software for the mentoring service which will be available at the conference website. Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to (tb at ldwin.net)

Program Committee

Program Co-chairs
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Area Chairs
Razvan Bunescu, Ohio University
Xavier Carreras, Technical University of Catalonia
Anna Feldman, Montclair University
Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University
Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
Shankar Kumar, Google
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Elliott Macklovitch, Marque d'Or
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Lluis Marquez, Technical University of Catalonia
Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd
Ryan McDonald, Google
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento
Vivi Nastase, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Vasile Rus, University of Memphis
Fabrizio Sebastiani, National Research Council of Italy
Michel Simard, National Research Council of Canada
Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Open University
Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy of Artificial Intelligence
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
Taro Watanabe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Alexander Yates, Temple University
Deniz Yuret, Koc University
Mentoring Chair
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne