The 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Held at the Le Centre Sheraton Montréal
1201, boul. René-Lévesque ouest, Montréal, (Québec), Canada, H3B-2L7

June 3-8, 2012

Email: acl-AT-aclweb.org

Collocated Conference

The joint conference on lexical and computational semantics, *SEM (http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/) will be collocated with NAACL-HLT 2012.

NAACL Workshops

The following workshops will be held at NAACL-HLT 2012:

June 7June 8

The following list contains all workshops at NAACL 2012 and their organizers.

Language in Social Media

Website: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/lsm2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/LSM2012/
Organizers:
  • Meena Nagarajan
  • Michael Gamon
  • Sara Owsley Sood

Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

Website: http://slpat2012.csee.ogi.edu/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SLPAT2012/
Organizers:
  • Jan Alexandersson
  • Peter Ljunglöf
  • Kathleen F. McCoy
  • Brian Roark
  • Annalu Waller

The 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications

Website: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~tetreaul/naacl-bea7.html
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/BEA2012/
Organizers:
  • Joel Tetreault
  • Jill Burstein
  • Claudia Leacock

Automatic Knowledge Base Construction / Workshop on Web-scale Knowledge Extraction

Website: http://akbcwekex2012.wordpress.com/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/AKBCWEKEX2012/
Organizers:
  • Raphael Hoffman
  • James Fan
  • Sebastian Riedel
  • Fabian Suchanek
  • Partha Pratim Talukdar
  • Aditya Kalyanpur

From Words to Actions: Semantic Interpretation in an Actionable Context

Website: http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/words2actions/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SIAC2012/
Organizers:
  • Dan Goldwasser
  • Regina Barzilay
  • Dan Roth

Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data

Website: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/SDCTD2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SDCTD2012/
Organizers:
  • Maxine Eskenazi
  • Alan Black
  • David Traum

Twelfth Meeting of the ACL-SIGMORPHON Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Website: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/sigmorphon2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SIGMORPHON2012/
Organizers:
  • Lynne Cahill
  • Richard Wicentowski
  • Adam Albright

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL)

Website: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~cmcl/2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/CMCL2012/
Organizers:
  • Roger Levy
  • David Reitter

Evaluation metrics and system comparison for automatic summarization

Website: http://www.nist.gov/tac/2012/WEAS/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/WEAS2012/
Organizers:
  • John M. Conroy
  • Hoa Dang
  • Ani Nenkova
  • Karolina Owczarzak

Predicting and improving text readability for target reader populations

Website: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/PITR2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/PITR2012/
Organizers:
  • Sandra Williams
  • Advaith Siddharthan
  • Ani Nenkova

BioNLP 2012

Website: http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/BioNLP2012/index.shtml
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/BIONLP2012/
Organizers:
  • K. Bretonnel Cohen
  • Dina Demner-Fushman
  • Sophia Ananiadou
  • John Pestian
  • Jun'ichi Tsujii
  • Bonnie Webber

SANCL - Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/sancl2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/SANCL2012/
Organizers:
  • Ozlem Cetinoglu
  • Jennifer Foster
  • Ines Rehbein

Workshop on Induction of Linguistic Structure

Website: http://wiki.cs.ox.ac.uk/InducingLinguisticStructure/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/WILS2012/
Organizers:
  • Trevor Cohn
  • Phil Blunsom
  • Joao Graca

Computational Linguistics for Literature

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2012/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/CLFL2012/
Organizers:
  • David Elson
  • Anna Kazantseva
  • Rada Mihalcea
  • Stan Szpakowicz

Will We Ever Really Replace the N-gram Model? On the Future of Language Modeling for HLT

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/wlm2012naacl/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/WLM2012/
Organizers:
  • Bhuvana Ramabhadran
  • Sanjeev Khudanpur
  • Ebru Arisoy

Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT12)

Website: http://www.statmt.org/wmt12/
Submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/WMT2012/
Organizers:
  • Chris Callison-Burch
  • Matt Post
  • Philipp Koehn
  • Christof Monz

Workshop Co-Chairs

Kristiina Jokinen, EACL; University of Helsinki
Alessandro Moschitti, EACL; University of Trento
Colin Cherry, NAACL-HLT; National Research Council Canada
Mona Diab, NAACL-HLT; Columbia University
Massimo Poesio, ACL; University of Essex
Satoshi Sekine, ACL; New York University

For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers.