ACL-2001 Final Call For Papers 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 6 - 11 July, 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html General Conference Chair: Bonnie Webber (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Program Co-Chairs: Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Giorgio Satta (Univ. of Padua, Italy) Local Organization Chair: Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse, France) The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 39th Annual Meeting, which this year is jointly hosted with the European Chapter. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics,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; multi-lingual processing, 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; 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. 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. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing --------- The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by the international Conference Program Committee consisting of the following nine Area Chairs, each assisted by a team of reviewers. Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA) Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research, USA) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, UK) Lillian Lee (Cornell University, USA) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen, UK) James Rogers (Earlham College, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Format ----------------- Papers must be submitted in hard copy. 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. They are available from the ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. These style files allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page will be required. The identification page should include the paper title, the paper ID code generated upon paper registration (see below), authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines). The identification page should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. Submission Procedure -------------------- 1) Submission notification: You must first register your submission by January 26, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form directly at http://www.dfki.de/cgi-bin/acl2001/submission.cgi or via http://acl2001.dfki.de/. The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. Do not re-submit your paper if you have already received an ID! If you want to change any information in your submission notification, please mail the PC co-chairs at acl2001@dfki.de and include your paper ID in the subject of the mail. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to the PC co-chairs at acl2001@dfki.de with all of the title page information plus the authors' names and affiliations. 2) Paper submission: Submissions must be received by February 2, 2001. Late submissions (those arriving after February 2) will be returned without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2001 Submission Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl2001-submissions@dfki.de. Please include the paper ID in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by February 2nd, 2001. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the PC co-chairs at acl2001@dfki.de. Acknowledgment of hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on or after April, 12th. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. Deadlines --------- Paper registration deadline: January 26th, 2001 Paper submissions deadline: February 2nd, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April 12th, 2001 Camera ready papers due: May 12th, 2001 ACL 2001 Conference: July 6th-11th, 2001 Submission Questions -------------------- Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs at acl2001@dfki.de sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. Mentoring Service ----------------- ACL 2001 is organizing 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. They may also have some trouble with the style of the presentation of the material that is expected for ACL. The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL 2001. An author who would like to take advantage of this service must send a draft of his/her paper to Aravind K. Joshi Room 555 Moore Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 USA fax: +1 215 898 0587 The author must send one (1) copy of the paper (hard copy by regular mail, courier service, or fax) by no later than December 20, 2000. The author should try to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to each paper and the mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the deadline for the submission to ACL 2001 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 Aravind Joshi (joshi@linc.cis.upenn.edu).