ACL-08: HLT - Student Research Workshops

ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop
June 15-20, 2008, Columbus Ohio

For a list of accepted papers click here.

Call for Papers

1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation.

We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas:

pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
phonetics, phonology and morphology
linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
summarization and paraphrasing
speech recognition, speech synthesis
corpus-based language modeling
multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
message and narrative understanding systems

2. Submission Requirements

The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers.

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. All authors of multi-author papers MUST be students. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible 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 workshop. They should submit their papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop.

Sponsors:

Important Dates:

Conference date: June 15-20, 2008

(The workshop will be held during the main conference)

6. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: . An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Jan Wiebe (Faculty Advisor)
University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Ebru Arisoy (Speech Co-Chair)
Bogazici University,
Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

Wolfgang Maier (NLP Co-Chair)
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany

Keisuke Inoue (IR Co-Chair)
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, USA

Program Commitee:

Murat Akbacak, SRI International, USA
Tanel Alumäe, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc., USA
Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chris Bartels, University of Washington, USA
Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Marine Carpuat, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Özlem Çetinoğlu, Sabancı University, Turkey
Mathias Creutz, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Montse Cuadros, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Anne Diekema, Syracuse University, USA
Markus Dreyer, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Kevin Duh, University of Washington, USA
Koji Eguchi, Kobe University, Japan
Hakan Erdoğan, Sabancı University, Turkey
Katja Filippova, EML Research, Germany
Seeger Fisher, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI, USA
Dustin Hillard, University of Washington, USA
Teemu Hirsimäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Eric Kow, University of Brighton, UK
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA
Giridhar Kumaran, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University, Sweden
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Kyung-Soon Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Timm Lichte, University of Tübingen, Germany
Andrej Ljolje, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Berenike Loos, German National Library, Germany
Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Lambert Mathias, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Olena Medelyan, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Quiozhu Mei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Simon Mille, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Mathias Möhl, Saarland University, Germany
Kemal Oflazer, Sabancı University, Turkey
Paul Ogilvie, mSpoke, Inc., USA
Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Yannick Parmentier, University of Tübingen, Germany
Thomas Pellegrini, LIMSI, France
Adam Przepiórkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Janne Pylkkönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Georg Rehm, University of Tübingen, Germany
Brian Roark, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA
Haşim Sak, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Murat Saraçlar, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
Ruhi Sarikaya, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Oliver Schonefeld, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Izak Shafran, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA
Anders Søgaard, University of Potsdam, Germany
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Yael Sygal, University of Haifa, Israel
Cüneyd Tantuğ, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Gökhan Tür, SRI International, USA
Suzan Verberne, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Christopher White, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig, Germany


Home Registration Accommodation Travel Submission Dates Call for Papers Schedule Workshops Tutorials Call for Demos Student Research Workshop Related Events Style Files Sponsors Contact Hosted by: The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics The Ohio State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering	ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop June 15-20, 2008, Columbus Ohio For a list of accepted papers click here. Call for Papers 1. General Invitation for Submissions The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but not limited to, the following topic areas: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon phonetics, phonology and morphology linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language information retrieval, information extraction, question answering summarization and paraphrasing speech recognition, speech synthesis corpus-based language modeling multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems message and narrative understanding systems 2. Submission Requirements The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research. The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers. 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. All authors of multi-author papers MUST be students. Papers submitted for this workshop are eligible 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 workshop. They should submit their papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop. Sponsors: Important Dates: Conference date: June 15-20, 2008 (The workshop will be held during the main conference) 6. Contact Information If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please use: . An e-mail sent to this address will be forwarded to all Co-Chairs. Jan Wiebe (Faculty Advisor) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Ebru Arisoy (Speech Co-Chair) Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey Wolfgang Maier (NLP Co-Chair) University of Tuebingen Tuebingen, Germany Keisuke Inoue (IR Co-Chair) Syracuse University Syracuse, New York, USA Program Commitee: Murat Akbacak, SRI International, USA Tanel Alumäe, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc., USA Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia Chris Bartels, University of Washington, USA Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany Marine Carpuat, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Özlem Çetinoğlu, Sabancı University, Turkey Mathias Creutz, Nokia Research Center, Finland Montse Cuadros, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Anne Diekema, Syracuse University, USA Markus Dreyer, Johns Hopkins University, USA Kevin Duh, University of Washington, USA Koji Eguchi, Kobe University, Japan Hakan Erdoğan, Sabancı University, Turkey Katja Filippova, EML Research, Germany Seeger Fisher, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI, USA Dustin Hillard, University of Washington, USA Teemu Hirsimäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan Eric Kow, University of Brighton, UK Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA Giridhar Kumaran, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University, Sweden Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kyung-Soon Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea Timm Lichte, University of Tübingen, Germany Andrej Ljolje, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Berenike Loos, German National Library, Germany Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Lambert Mathias, Johns Hopkins University, USA Olena Medelyan, University of Waikato, New Zealand Quiozhu Mei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Simon Mille, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Mathias Möhl, Saarland University, Germany Kemal Oflazer, Sabancı University, Turkey Paul Ogilvie, mSpoke, Inc., USA Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Yannick Parmentier, University of Tübingen, Germany Thomas Pellegrini, LIMSI, France Adam Przepiórkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Janne Pylkkönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Georg Rehm, University of Tübingen, Germany Brian Roark, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Haşim Sak, Boğaziçi University, Turkey Murat Saraçlar, Boğaziçi University, Turkey Ruhi Sarikaya, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Oliver Schonefeld, University of Bielefeld, Germany Izak Shafran, OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA Anders Søgaard, University of Potsdam, Germany Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yael Sygal, University of Haifa, Israel Cüneyd Tantuğ, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Gökhan Tür, SRI International, USA Suzan Verberne, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Christopher White, Johns Hopkins University, USA Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig, Germany
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