* * *  HLT-NAACL 2006 Call for Demos  * * *      

2006 Human Language Technology Conference and North American chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting.

New York City, New York
Conference date: June 4-9, 2006
Submission deadline: March 3, 2006
Website: http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06

Proposals are invited for the HLT-NAACL 2006 Demonstrations
Program. This program is aimed at offering first-hand experience with
new systems, providing opportunities to exchange ideas gained from
creating systems, and collecting feedback from expert users. It is
primarily intended to encourage the early exhibition of research
prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also
eligible. Submission of a demonstration proposal on a particular topic
does not preclude or require a separate submission of a paper on that
topic; it is possible that some but not all of the demonstrations will
illustrate concepts that are described in companion papers.

Demo Co-Chairs
John Dowding, University of California/Santa Cruz
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University.

Areas of Interest

We encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of
software and hardware related to all areas of human language
technology.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to,
natural language, speech, and text systems for:

- Speech recognition and generation;
- Speech retrieval and summarization;
- Rich transcription of speech;
- Interactive dialogue;
- Information retrieval, filtering, and extraction;
- Document classification, clustering, and summarization;
- Language modeling, text mining, and question answering;
- Machine translation;
- Multilingual and cross-lingual processing;
- Multimodal user interface;
- Mobile language-enabled devices;
- Tools for Ontology, Lexicon, or other NLP resource development;
- Applications in growing domains (web-search, bioinformatics, ...).

Please be referred to the HLT-NAACL 2006 CFP
(http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/cfp.html ) for a more detailed but
not necessarily an exhaustive list of relevant topics.

Important Dates
Submission deadline:  March 3, 2006
Notification of acceptance: April 6, 2006
Submission of final demo related literature: April 17, 2006
Conference: June 4-9, 2006

Submission

Format

A demo proposal should consist of the following parts:

- An extended abstract of up to four pages, including the title,
authors, full contact information, and technical content to be
demonstrated.  It should give an overview of what the demonstration is
aimed to achieve, how the demonstration illustrates novel ideas or
late-breaking results, and how it relates to other systems or projects
described in the context of other research (i.e., references to
related literature).

- A detailed requirement description of hardware, software, and
network access expected to be provided by the local
organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their
requirements (possibly preparing different demos for different
logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and
what you absolutely must be provided with. We will do our best to
provide equipment and resources but at this point we cannot guarantee
anything beyond the space and power supply.

- A concise outline of the demo script, including the accompanying
narrative, and either a web address to access the demo or visual aids
(e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). The demo script should
be no more than 6 pages.

The demo abstract must be submitted electronically in the Portable
Document Format (PDF). It should follow the format guidelines for the
main conference papers. Authors are encouraged to use the style files
provided on the HLT-NAACL 2006 website.  It is the responsibility of
the authors to ensure that their proposals use no unusual format
features and can be printed on a standard Postscript printer.

Procedure

Demo proposals should be submitted electronically to the demo
co-chairs at hlt-naacl06-demonstrations@cs.nyu.edu .

Reviewing

Demo proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to
the conference, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, and
usability, as well as potential logistical constraints.

Publication

The accepted demo abstracts will be published in the Companion Volume
to the Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2006 Conference.


Further Details

Further details on the date, time, and format of the demonstration
session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. Please
send any inquiries to the demo co-chairs at
hlt-naacl06-demonstrations@cs.nyu.edu.

Please check http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/cfp.html for latest
updates.