• • July 8-14, 2012
• • Jeju Island, Korea
  

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

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.

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.

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) ...".

• • 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)
  

• • Jackie C. K. Cheung, University of Toronto
• • Jun Hatori, University of Tokyo
• • Carlos Henriquez, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
• • Ann Irvine, Johns Hopkins University

• • Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University
• • Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta
• • Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas