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From: Koenraad De Smedt [mailto:desm...@uib.no]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:32 PM
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Subject: [SIG-IRList] ACL 2010 Call for system demonstrations
ACL 2010: CALL FOR SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS
48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
July 11--16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
http://www.acl2010.org/demos.html
* * * Submission deadline: February 22, 2010 * * *
Invitation of Submissions
The ACL 2010 System Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for the
Demonstrations Program. We encourage both the submission of early research
prototypes and interesting mature systems.
PLEASE NOTE: Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in
the Demonstrations Program, and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit
Program.
Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied
computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed for
conference paper submission (www.acl2010.org/papers.html)
The systems may be of the following kinds:
* Natural Language Processing systems or system components
* Application systems using language technology components
* Software tools for computational linguistics research
* Software for demonstration or evaluation
* Development tools
We would like to strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems as
long as they prove technologically innovative given the current state of the
art of theory and applied research in computational linguistics, and as long as
they do not include sales and marketing activities.
Each demo will be complemented by a poster at the conference and will be
allocated 6 pages in the conference proceedings.
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 a demo preview will
also be helpful.
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.
Submission Information
Submissions may consist of 6 pages (including references) and must conform to
the official ACL 2010 style guidelines to be announced on the conference
website. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must
not include the authors' names and affiliations.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations
such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to
these requirements will be rejected without review.
The deadline for submissions is February 22, 2010. Submission will be
electronic in PDF format through a link on the ACL 2010 conference website
(available soon).
Program Committee
* Thorsten Brants (Google, USA)
* Sabine Buchholz (Toshiba Research Europe, U.K.)
* Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)
* Paul Davis (Motorola, USA)
* Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois, USA)
* Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
* Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore)
* Nicolas Nicolov (JD Power and Associates, USA)
* Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
* Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
System Demonstrations Chair and contact address:
Sandra Kübler, de...@acl2010.org
(This announcement placed by Koenraad De Smedt, ACL2010 Publicity Chair)
