NAACL 2001 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Language Technologies 2001: 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

General Conference Chair: Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Program Chair: Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Local Arrangements: Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University)

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:

• pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon;
• phonetics, phonology and morphology;
• interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
• linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language;
• information retrieval and information extraction;
• corpus-based language modeling;
• multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
• natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
• language in multimedia systems;
• message and narrative understanding systems;
• tools and resources;
• and evaluation of systems.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Submissions will be hardcopy. Submissions must use the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style (links to which will be available from the conference web page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html ). Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the required format will be available on the conference web page. If you cannot access the conference web page or have other questions about submissions, send email to naaclpgm@isi.edu .

Reviewing will be blind. Thus, a separate identification page is required. The identification page should include the following:

• Paper ID number (see SUBMISSION PROCEDURE below).
• Title.
• Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses.
• Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area.
• Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list.
• Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary.

Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself. 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) ...".

Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being rejected without review.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission by filling out a form on the conference web page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html by November 6, 2000. This will return to you an email with a paper ID number that should be included (printed or handwritten) on the first page of the paper and on the identification page. Also, please use it on all correspondence with the program committee chair.
The form will be available on the web after October 1, 2000.

2) Paper submission: send six (6) hardcopies of your submission and two (2) hardcopies of your identification page to:

Remember to include your ID number on all submissions and identification pages. Late submissions will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be emailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

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