ACL 2012 Student Research Workshop
  • • July 8-14, 2012
  • • Jeju Island, Korea

** Submission deadline: Monday, February 20, 2012 **

General Invitation for Submissions
The ACL Student Session provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their research, meet potential advisors, and receive feedback from the international research community.

The Student Session's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, from those in the final stages of undergraduate training to those who are preparing their graduate thesis proposal. Towards this goal, we invite papers in two separate categories.
1. Thesis/Research Proposals: This category is appropriate for experienced students who wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for the field in order to strengthen their final research work.
2. Research Papers: Most appropriate for students new to academic conferences. Papers in this category can describe completed work or work in progress with preliminary results.

Subject to the availability of established researcher volunteers, each accepted paper will be assigned a mentor, who will provide feedback on the work to the student at the conference. Separately, the committee will do its best to assign pre-submission mentors to students who wish to get feedback before the paper deadline. This service will be available on a first come, first served basis and does not guarantee acceptance into the workshop. Students who wish to take advantage of this opportunity should let the the co-chairs know via email no later than Sunday, January 1 and should submit a paper draft no later than Friday, January 20, 2012.

Submission Requirements
Thesis/Research Proposals may contain previously published work and must include specific research directions. They may also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and critiques existing literature, but must suggest future research directions. Proposals may only have one author, who must be a student.

Research Papers must describe original completed work or work in progress and should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The first author of multi-author papers MUST be a student though it is not required that additional co-authors be students. Research Papers must not have 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 be the first author on a Research Paper. They should instead submit their papers either to the main conference or to the Thesis/Research Proposal track. Students must indicate if a paper has been submitted to another conference or workshop.

Submission Format
Both paper and proposal submissions to the Student Session should follow the standard two-column format of the ACL 2012 proceedings. Submissions should have no more than six (6) pages including references. LaTeX and Microsoft Word style files are available on the conference website under Call for Papers. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines and they must be submitted as a PDF file.

The reviewing process will be double-blind; therefore, please ensure that the paper does not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

Important Dates
  • • Pre-submission mentoring service application: January 1, 2012
  • • Pre-submission mentoring paper deadline: January 20, 2012
  • • Submission deadline: February 20, 2012
  • • Notification of acceptance: April 9, 2012
  • • Camera-ready submission deadline: April 30, 2012
  • • Conference dates: July 8-14, 2012 (The session will be held during the main conference)
Contact Information
acl-2012-srw at googlegroups.com
Email Enquiry: acl-2012-srw at googlegroups.com
Paper Submission Link: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/srw/
Program Committee
Student Co-Chairs
  • • Jackie C. K. Cheung, University of Toronto
  • • Jun Hatori, University of Tokyo
  • • Carlos Henriquez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
  • • Ann Irvine, Johns Hopkins University
Faculty Advisors
  • • Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University
  • • Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
  • • Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas