NAACL-HLT 2015 Student Research Workshop (SRW) Call for Papers
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/naaclsrw2015/home/ The SRW workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2015 in Denver, Colorado. General Invitation for Submission The Student Research Workshop provides a venue for student researchers to present their work in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Students receive feedback from the general conference audience as well as from mentors specifically assigned according to the topic of their work. We invite papers in three different categories: 1. Thesis Proposals. This category is appropriate for advanced students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work. 2. Research Papers. Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author must be a current graduate student. 3. Special undergraduate track. In order to encourage undergraduate research, we are offering a special track for research papers where the first author is an undergraduate student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as NAACL main conference. Benefits of participation * All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference poster session giving students an opportunity to interact with and present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field. * All accepted papers (thesis, research, undergraduate) will be published in the NAACL 2015 SRW Proceedings. * Each participant is also assigned a mentor - an experienced researcher - who can provide valuable advice. * Additional feedback is being planned for thesis proposals, as well as oral presentations. Grants Grants from the NSF and corporate sponsors will be available to offset some portion of the students' conference registration, travel and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted soon. Important Dates All deadlines are calculated at 11:59 pm (PST/GMT -8 hours) * Papers must be submitted by February 25, 2015. * Acceptance notification deadline: March 20, 2015. * Camera-ready copy due: March 30, 2015. * NAACL main conference dates: May 31 - June 5, 2015. Please check the website for updated timelines as further information becomes available. Submission Procedure - Please use the START website for submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2015/srw/ - The format is the same as for the general conference. The reviewing procedure and multiple submissions policy for the SRW are the same as those for the general conference. They are repeated here for ease of reference. Submission Guidelines Both thesis proposals and research papers have a maximum limit of 6 pages for content and can include any number of additional pages for references. Papers should follow these specifications: Thesis Proposals may contain previously published work and must include specific research directions. They may also be in the style of a paper that surveys and critiques existing literature and suggests future research directions. Proposals may only have one author, who must be a graduate student. In addition, the authors of thesis proposals should provide a CV. The CV should be at most 2 pages long and include educational background, publications, and projected graduation date. Research Papers (graduate and undergraduate) must describe original completed work or work in progress. Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The first author of multi-author papers must be a student, but additional co-authors need not be students. Research Papers are eligible for this workshop only if they have not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research Workshop may not submit to this track as a first author. These students should instead submit to the main conference or to the Thesis Proposal track. Note that every student is only allowed to submit one first- author paper. You may author multiple papers but since we mentor students and give feedback, we request you to only submit one paper. Reviewing Procedure As the reviewing will be blind, 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 previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete (in special cases this is permitted: see the multiple submission policy below). We will reject without review any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines, anonymity conditions and page limits. Multiple Submission Policy Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NAACL HLT SRW 2015 must notify the program chairs by the camera- ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Preprint servers such as arXiv.org and ACL-related workshops that do not have published proceedings in the ACL Anthology are not considered archival for purposes of submission. Authors must state in the online submission form the name of the workshop or preprint server and title of the non-archival version. The submitted version should be suitably anonymized and not contain references to the prior non-archival version. Reviewers will be told: “The author(s) have notified us that there exists a non-archival previous version of this paper with significantly overlapping text. We have approved submission under these circumstances, but to preserve the spirit of blind review, the current submission does not reference the non-archival version.” Reviewers are free to do what they like with this information. Contact Information The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at: [email protected] Student Chairs: · Shibamouli Lahiri, University of Michigan · Karen Mazidi, University of North Texas · Alisa Zhila, Instituto Politécnico Nacional Faculty Advisors: · Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa · Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University Program Committee Amjad Abu-Jbara, Microsoft Ayan Acharya, UT Austin Gabor Angeli, Stanford University Yoav Artzi, University of Washington Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt Arianna Bisazza, University of Amsterdam Yonatan Bisk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Colorado Shu Cai, University of Southern California Hiram Calvo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research India Trevor Cohn, University of Melbourne Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland Leon Derczynski, University of Sheffield Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech Aciel Eshky, University of Edinburgh Kilian Evang, University of Groningen Paul Felt, Brigham Young University Thomas François, UC Louvain Annemarie Friedrich, Saarland University Michael Gamon, Microsoft Qin Gao, Microsoft Amit Goyal, Yahoo Labs Liane Guillou, University of Edinburgh Eva Hasler, University of Edinburgh John Henderson, MITRE Corporation Derrick Higgins, Civis Analytics Yuening Hu, Yahoo Ruihong Huang, Stanford University Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh Varada Kolhatkar, University of Toronto Jonathan Kummerfeld, Berkeley Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento Fei Liu, Carnegie Mellon University Yang Liu, UT Dallas Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh Nitin Madnani, ETS Mitch Marcus, U Penn Thomas Meyer, Google Zurich Courtney Napoles, Johns Hopkins University Martha Palmer, University of Colorado Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University Christopher Potts, Stanford University Rashmi Prasad, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Preethi Raghavan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Owen Rambow, Columbia University Sravana Reddy, Dartmouth College Roi Reichart, Technion Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Eduardo Rodriguez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional Kairit Sirts, Tallinn University of Technology Thamar Solorio, University of Houston Swapna Somasundaran, ETS Kapil Thadani, Columbia University Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge Jason Williams, Microsoft Travis Wolfe, Johns Hopkins University Xuchen Yao, Johns Hopkins University Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington Qiuye Zhao, U Penn -- Saif Mohammad Research Officer Information and Communications Technologies Portfolio National Research Council Canada http://www.saifmohammad.com
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