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              2006 Conference on Empirical Methods 
           in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006) 

                Sydney, Australia, July 22-23, 2006 

                  Preliminary Call for Papers 

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Submission deadline: April 13, 2006 
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SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special 
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to 
NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2006, which immediately follows 
COLING-ACL 2006. 

We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry 
on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and 
aligned fields, including but not limited to: 

o information extraction 
o information retrieval 
o language and dialogue modeling 
o lexical acquisition 
o machine translation 
o multilingual technologies 
o question answering 
o statistical parsing 
o summarization 
o generation 
o speech recognition and synthesis 
o dialog and discourse processing 
o tagging 
o term and named entity extraction 
o word sense disambiguation 
o word, term, and text segmentation 
o general NLP-related machine learning techniques: 
          theory, methods and algorithms 

Special Theme: 
Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinarity in Data and Methods 

For this year's theme we encourage submissions that reach out to 
other disciplines, whether in MODELS AND METHODS or DOMAINS AND 
DATA.  In the past NLP has often drawn on other fields for new 
models,  methods, and mathematical insights.  We encourage submissions 
to extend this history, both from closely related fields (computer 
vision, signal processing) or ones at a distance (quantum mechanics, 
statistical physics).  Other fields can also be a source of new 
kinds of data and new problems, including domains that have received 
a lot of attention (gene  sequencing,  medical informatics) or less 
attention (sociology, political science, forensic science,  the 
humanities).  We encourage any submission that tries to build bridges 
to other disciplines; samples of the many possible areas include: 

o computer vision (joint analysis of text and images for 
               multimodal aoplications) 
o medical informatics and bioinformatics 
o political science (analysis of polling data, surveys, or blogs) 
o sociology (network theory and analysis, interpersonal relationships 
        such as job interviews) 
o social psychology (detection of emotional state, lie detection, 
               social attitudes, accent or dialect) 
o physics (quantum mechanics, statistical physics) 
o humanities (authorship identification, genre and style) 
o educational applications 

Submissions 

Submissions should take the form of full papers (up to 8 pages in 
two-column format) describing original, unpublished work.  Papers 
being submitted to other meetings must provide this information on 
the title page. 

Conference URL 

http://nlp.stanford.ed/emnlp06 

Important Dates 

Submission deadline: April 13, 2006 
Conference: July 22-23, 2006 

Program Chairs: 

Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University (jurafsky@stanford.edu) 
Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe
(Eric.Gaussier@xrce.xerox.com)