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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:13:56 -0700
Normal registration ends 19 July, 2009! Hurry, and book your registration http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2009reg.php [NEW] Invited talks now listed: Qiang Yang and Bonnie Webber == == ACL-IJCNLP 2009 First Call for Participation == == Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org 2 - 7 August, 2009 Singapore For the first time, the flagship conferences of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) -- the ACL and IJCNLP -- are jointly organized as a single event. The ACL-IJCNLP 2009 will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. ACL-IJCNLP 2009 will include a rich array of the state of the art: 120 full and 95 short paper presentations, 11 demonstrations, 6 tutorials, and 12 workshops. We welcome you to participate in the conference to discuss the latest research findings. The 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) will also be co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2009 right here in Singapore, which will also feature over 160 papers. Singapore, the culturally and technologically vibrant Garden City of Asia, is the stage set for the landmark joint conference. The conference will take place at Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, which is only 20 minutes from Changi International Airport. Suntec Singapore offers direct access to 5,200 hotel rooms, 1,000 shops, 300 restaurants and a world-class performing arts centre. *** *** *** INVITED TALKS [NEW!] *** *** *** Heterogeneous Transfer Learning with Real-world Applications Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (qyang[at]cse.ust.hk) Discourse - Early problems, current successes, future challenges Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK (bonnie.webber[at]ed.ac.uk) *** *** *** REGISTRATION *** *** *** ACL-IJCNLP 2009 registration is now open at the following web page: http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2009reg.php Early registration through 30 June, 2009 (11:59pm EDT) Late registration through 19 July, 2009 (11:59pm EDT). Online registration will not be available after 19 July, 2009. Please then register on-site. Please note that the registration fees for workshops, tutorials as well as the main conference will be different after 30 June during the normal registration period. Late / Onsite registration rates will be raised again after 19 July. While you're at the registration pages, you are encouraged to visit: Conference Blog: We have a conference blog that will keep you up-to-date with the latest news with the conference! Please visit: http://www.colips.org/blog/acl-ijcnlp-2009/ Travel Information and Accommodations: It's not too early to plan your trip! See: http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/travelinfo.html You should also book your accommodations early. Check out the accommodation information here: http://www.meetmatt-conf.net/acl2009/hotels.asp *** *** *** CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE *** *** *** Tutorials: 2 August Main Conference: 3-5 August, 2009 (Full accepted paper list at: http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/acceptedfullpapers.html Full paper acceptance rate 21% (120 out of 570)) (Short accepted paper list at: http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/acceptedshortpapers.html Short paper acceptance rate 26% (95 out of 372)) Workshops & EMNLP conference: 6-7 August (Details on the Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing conference, EMNLP at: http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp09/ ) *** *** *** WORKSHOPS *** *** *** http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/workshops.html WS1: Applied Textual Inference (TextInfer) (6 Aug 2009) Chairs: Chris Callison-Burch, Ido Dagan, Christopher Manning, Marco Pennacchiotti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto WS2: Grammar Engineering across Frameworks (6 Aug 2009) Chairs: Tracy Holloway King, Marianne Santaholma WS3: KRAQ'09: Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions (6 Aug 2009) Chairs: Marie-Francine Moens, Patrick Saint-Dizier WS4: Language Generation and Summarisation (6 Aug 2009) Chairs: Anja Belz, Roger Evans, Sebastian Varges WS5: Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications (6 Aug 2009) Chairs: Dimitra Anastasiou, Chikara Hashimoto, Preslav Nakov, Su Nam Kim WS6: The Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW III) (6-7 Aug 2009) Chairs: Nancy Ide, Adam Meyers, Manfred Stede, Chu-Ren Huang WS7: 2nd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: from parallel to non-parallel corpora (6 Aug 2009) Chairs: Pascale Fung, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Reinhard Rapp WS8: TextGraphs-4: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing (7 Aug 2009) Chairs: Monojit Choudhury, Samer Hassan, Animesh Mukherjee, Smaranda Muresan WS9: The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (7 Aug 2009) Chairs: Iryna Gurevych, Torsten Zesch WS10: The 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (6-7 Aug 2009) Chairs: Hammam Riza, Virach Sornlertlamvanich WS11: Named Entities Workshop - Shared Task on Transliteration (NEWS on Transliteration) (7 Aug 2009) Chairs: Haizhou Li, A Kumaran WS12: Workshop on text and citation analysis for scholarly digital libraries (NLPIR4DL) (7 Aug 2009) Chairs: Simone Teufel, Min-Yen Kan *** *** *** TUTORIALS *** *** *** Detailed tutorial abstracts at: http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/tutorials.html T1: Fundamentals of Chinese Language Processing Date/Time: Morning - 8:30am - 12:00 noon, 2 Aug 2009 Presenters/organisers: Chu-Ren Huang and Prof. Qin LU (both from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) T2: Topics in Statistical Machine Translation Date/Time: Morning - 8:30am - 12:00 noon, 2 Aug 2009 Presenters/organisers: Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh) T3: Semantic Role Labeling: Past, Present and Future Date/Time: Morning - 8:30am - 12:00 noon, 2 Aug 2009 Presenter/organiser: Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) T4: Computational Modeling of Human Language Acquisition Date/Time: Afternoon - 2:00 - 5:00pm, 2 Aug 2009 Presenter/organiser: Afra Alishahi (Saarland University) T5: Learning to Rank and Applications Date/Time: Afternoon - 2:00 - 5:00pm, 2 Aug 2009 Presenter/organiser: Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia) T6: State-of-the-art NLP Approaches to Coreference Resolution: Theory and Practical Recipes Date/Time: Afternoon - 2:00 - 5:00pm, 2 Aug 2009 Presenter/organisers: Simone Paolo Ponzetto (University of Heidelberg) and Massimo Poesio (Universita' di Trento) *** *** *** *** *** *** We look forward to seeing you in Singapore! General Conference Chair - Su, Keh-Yih (Behavior Design Corp., Taiwan; kysu[at]bdc.com.tw) Program Co-Chair - Su, Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; sujian[at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg) Program Co-Chair - Wiebe, Janyce (University of Pittsburgh, USA; janycewiebe[at]gmail.com) Local Organizing Chair - Li, Haizhou (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; hli[at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg) _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list