FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
ACL Student Research Workshop
https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2014/
Collocated with ACL 2014
Main conference: June 23-25, 2014
Student Research Workshop: June 23, 2014
Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014 (11:59pm PST)
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General Invitation For Submission
The Student Research Workshop at ACL conferences provides a venue for
student researchers to present their work in computational linguistics
and natural language processing. The students receive feedback from the
general conference audience as well as from mentors specifically
assigned according to the topic of the work.
We invite papers in two 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.
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Phonology and Morphology, Word Segmentation
- Syntax, Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
- Semantics
- Multimodal Natural Language Processing
- Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
- Linguistic aspects of CL
- Summarization
- Generation
- Machine Learning for Language Processing
- Machine Translation
- Information Retrieval and Question Answering
- Information Extraction
- Spoken Language Processing (e.g., Spoken Term Detection,
Understanding, Dialogue Systems)
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- NLP-enabled Technology
- Document Categorization / Topic Clustering
- Social Media Analysis and Processing
- Language Resources and Evaluation Methods
Format Of The Workshop
All the accepted papers will be presented in the main conference poster
session giving the opportunity for students to interact and present
their work to a large and diverse audience. Each paper is also assigned
a mentor, an experienced researcher who will provide feedback on the
work.
In addition, we will have a separate session at the main conference
where student authors of the thesis proposal papers will give oral
presentations of their thesis topic. Each student presentation is
approximately 20 min.
We hope that this additional venue will enable the students to interact
with the mentors as well as with other student participants.
Submission Requirements
Please check the submission guidelines on our website:
https://sites.google.com/site/aclsrw2014/submission.
Pre-submission Mentoring
ACL also provides a program for students to receive feedback on the
writing for their paper before the conference deadline. An experienced
researcher will read the paper and provide comments on how to improve
the presentation of the work. This service is provided with the aim to
improve the quality of writing in the student paper rather than focus on
reviewing the work done. The mentor at this point does not correspond to
the reviewer of the paper.
Participation in this program is voluntary. Students who wish to
participate should apply for the pre-submission mentoring service and
submit abstracts for their papers no later than January 10. The students
who apply for the pre-submission mentoring service will be required to
submit their papers by January 17. They will receive feedback within 2
weeks. The feedback is intended to guide the student to revise the paper
and the changes noted are not mandatory to make.
Schedule
The papers must be submitted by March 7. No papers received after this
deadline will be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be sent to
authors (by email) by April 4. Detailed formatting guidelines for the
preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors
with their acceptance notice.
The Student Research Workshop will be held during the ACL 2014 main
conference.
Important Dates
All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm (PST/GMT -7 hours)
- Pre-submission Mentoring Application and Abstract Submission Deadline:
January 10, 2014
- Pre-submission Mentoring Papers Deadline: January 17, 2014
- Pre-submission Mentoring Feedback: January 31, 2014
- Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014
- Notification of Acceptance: April 4, 2014
- Camera Ready Deadline: May 2, 2014
- ACL Main Conference dates: June 23 - 25, 2014
- Student Posters: June 23
- Student Presentations: June 23
Contact Information
The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at:
[email protected]
Student Chairs:
Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge, UK
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK
Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Faculty Advisors:
Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland, USA
Bill Byrne, University of Cambridge, UK
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