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CALL FOR PAPERS

STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP at COLING/ACL-2006
http://www.acl2006.org/program/student-workshops

17th-21st July 2006
Sydney, Australia

Submission deadline: February 28, 2006
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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. Participants 
will have the opportunity to receive feedback both from the general 
audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who 
prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. 
We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. 
As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis 
is on work in progress.

The research being presented can come from any topic areas within 
computational linguistics including, but not limited to:
	-  	 pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the 
		 lexicon
	- 	 phonetics, phonology and morphology
	- 	 linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of 
		 language
	- 	 information retrieval, information extraction, question 
		 answering
	- 	 summarization and paraphrasing
	- 	 speech recognition, speech synthesis
	- 	 corpus-based language modeling
	- 	 multi-lingual processing, machine translation, 
		 translation aids
	- 	 spoken and written natural language interfaces, 
		 dialogue systems
	- 	 multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
	- 	 message and narrative understanding systems

The main conference also features tutorials, workshops, and demos. More 
information on these can be found at the main ACL-06 page, 
http://www.acl2006.org/ .

2. Submission Requirements

The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. 
The papers should describe original work, still in progress. Papers 
should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever 
appropriate.
 	-The papers may have more than one author; however, all 	
	 authors MUST be students (graduate or undergraduate).
	-Paper submitted 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.

3. Submission Procedure

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and 
should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. We strongly 
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style 
files tailored for this year's conference. These will be available from 
the web pages of ACL-06 and the Student Research Workshop. A 
description of the format is also available in case you are unable to 
use these style files directly. Submission must be electronic. Details 
regarding the submission procedure will be posted on the workshop 
website: http://www.acl2006.org/program/student-workshops .

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 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

Submissions must be received by February 28th, 2006. Late submissions 
will be automatically disqualified. Acknowledgment will be e-mailed 
soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors 
(by e-mail) on April 28th, 2006. Detailed formatting guidelines for the
preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors 
with their acceptance notice.

Important Dates:
  Paper submissions deadline: February 28th, 2006
  Notification of acceptance: April 28th, 2006
  Camera ready papers due: May 19th, 2006
  Conference date: July 17-21, 2006

6. Travel Grants

Some funding will be available for students whose work is accepted to 
the Student Research Workshop. For more information about travel 
grants, please contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Research Workshop.

7. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please 
use: acl06-student@ssli.ee.washington.edu.
An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.


Marine Carpuat
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Kevin Duh
University of Washington