*** COLING-98 CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS ACL-98 *** Student Sessions at the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'98) and 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98) August 10-14, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/ PURPOSE: The goal of the sessions is to provide a forum for student members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The sessions will consist of paper presentations by student authors. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. Note that the existence of the student sessions does not influence the treatment of student-authored papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the aim of the student sessions is to provide a separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. All authors must be students with ACL membership at the time of the conference. For membership information, see the ACL home page (http://www.aclweb.org/). Papers submitted to the main conference cannot be considered for the student sessions. Students may, of course, submit DIFFERENT papers to the main conference and the student session, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. Information about COLING-ACL'98 and about the student session can be found on the COLING-ACL98 homepage, at http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/ and at the student session homepage at http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/. The official language of the conference is English, and hence student papers should be written in English. However, authors will be allowed to use one supplementary page to write up their abstract in one or more additional languages. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: The maximum allowable length is 3 pages (about 1800 words exclusive of references), plus one optional page for abstract(s) in other language(s). Please use A4 or US letter format, 2.5 cm margins, classic fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title and centered page numbers in footers. Figures may range across columns. We encourage authors to use the LaTeX style file described below. Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page is required. It should include: - title - author(s) name(s) - affiliation(s) - complete addresses - abstract in English - 1 or 2 topic areas - submission to other conferences ('none' or list) and - author of record (for correspondence). Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted in the paper itself. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. MEDIA OF SUBMISSION: Authors may submit their papers electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submission is strongly preferred. Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript or PDF (we encourage LaTeX submissions). PostScript submissions must use a standard font; please submit the identification page in a separate message. LaTeX submissions should not refer to any other external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file. We encourage authors to use the aclap.sty style file available in either compressed or uncompressed format at the student session web site. Electronic submission should be sent to coling-acl98-student@mpce.mq.edu.au Hard copy submissions should consist of six (6) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. Hard copies submissions should be sent to one of the two student session chairs at the addresses below (posted, not faxed). Address: Student COLING-ACL'98 Student COLING-ACL'98 c/o Dragomir R. Radev c/o Maria Milosavljevic Natural Language Processing Group Microsoft Research Institute Department of Computer Science Department of Computing Columbia University School of MPCE 1214 Amsterdam Avenue Macquarie University New York, NY 10027-7003 Sydney NSW 2109 USA Australia Telephone: +1 212-939-7121 +61 2 9850 6345 Fax: +1 212-666-0140 +61 2 9850 9529 For both kinds of submissions, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by email, using the following format: title: [title] author: [name of first author] address: [address of first author] ... author: [name of last author] address: [address of last author] abstract: [abstract] word count: [word count] subject areas: [first area], ..., [last area] STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student session, contact Dragomir Radev and Maria Milosavljevic by email at coling-acl98-student@mpce.mq.edu.au or by post or phone (see above). SCHEDULE: - Submission announcement: (id page) e-mail before 1 March 1998. - Submission: (6 copies + id page) to be received by both co-chairs no later than 7 March 1998. - Notification of acceptance or rejection sent to authors: 2 May 1998 - Final camera-ready copies (2): should be sent to Dragomir Radev and to arrive in New York no later than 30 May 1998. Authors should revise their papers, taking the reviews into account. A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final version. Late papers will not be considered. ACL AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For general information about the conference please contact the organising committee chair, Pierre Isabelle (coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca). For information concerning the conference program, contact Christian Boitet or Pete Whitelock. For general information about the ACL, electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL web site at http://www.aclweb.org/. For further information about the student session, see the web site at http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/coling-acl98-student/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The committee is co-chaired by Dragomir Radev (Columbia University) and Maria Milosavljevic (Macquarie University).