EACL-03 Call for Papers, Research notes and Demos 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary, April 12-17, 2003. 1. Papers Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics,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, question answering, summarization and information extraction; language-oriented machine learning; 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; evaluation of systems and evaluation methodology Papers on tools and resources for less-studied European and African/Mediterranean languages are particularly encouraged. 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 EACL 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 or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Reviewing The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs (to be announced). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Submission Information 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 available via the conference website, http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind, 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 You must submit a notification of submission by filling out intention-to-submit form at a designated website. All papers must be submitted electronically in PostScript format. Further details of the submission procedure will be available on the conference website. Deadlines Paper registration deadline: November 10, 2002 Paper submissions deadline: November 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2003 Camera ready papers due: February 15, 2003 EACL-03 Conference: April 12-17, 2003 2. Research Note and Demo Sessions The EACL-03 meeting will include Research Note Sessions and Demo Sessions. RESEARCH NOTES should present work in progress, project status reports, unevaluated results or system summaries (with or without demos). In the programme of the conference there will be sessions reserved for Research Notes. Presentations of Research Notes will be shorter than regular papers' ones. Each Research Note will be allocated 4 pages in the conference proceedings. We also encourage the submission of SOFTWARE DEMOS related to any areas of computational linguistics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing systems, including o Dialog systems and interfaces o Machine translation systems and translation aids o Message and narrative understanding systems. o Language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction systems * Application systems using embedded language technology components * Reusable components (speech recognizers, parsers, generators, ...) * Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research * Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational linguistics research * Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts Demos of tools for less-studied European and African/Mediterranean languages are particularly encouraged. Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites running the demo preview will also be helpful. Research notes and demo submissions will be reviewed by an international panel. Format for Submission Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed four (4) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files available via the conference website, http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. Submission Procedure You must submit a notification of submission by filling out intention-to-submit form at a designated website. All papers must be submitted electronically in PostScript format. Further details of the submission procedure will be available on the conference website. Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please specify desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory capacity, operating system and other software needed in order to run the demo. Also mention name and contact information of systems operations specialist. If you are bringing your own laptop, you should instead request a video projector if you need one, providing details about PC type, screen resolution, etc. Deadlines Research Note registration deadline: December 1, 2002 Research Note submissions deadline: December 6, 2002 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2003 Camera ready papers due: February 15, 2003 EACL-03 Conference: April 12-17, 2003 3 Other CFPs and Additional Information Separate CFPs have been issued for Workshop Proposals and the EACL Student Workshop For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03 which will provide additional details as they become available.