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HLT/NAACL 2004 continues the
combination of the Human Language Technology Conferences (HLT) and
North American Chapter of the American Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings begun in 2003. This year's
conference will include a special emphasis on bringing together
researchers with common interests in computational linguistics,
information retrieval, and speech research. Human language technology
incorporates a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling
computers to interact with humans using natural language, and
providing improved services such as automatic translation, speech
recognition, information retrieval, text summarization, and
information extraction.
HLT/NAACL 2004 will run from Sunday May 2 through Friday
May 7. The schedule will include full papers, late-breaking (short)
papers, posters and demonstrations. Invited speakers and panelists
will discuss the state of today's human language technology. The
conference will also host tutorials and workshops, including a
workshop organized by and devoted to graduate students.
The conference especially encourages submissions that
discuss synergistic combinations of language technologies (e.g.,
Speech with Information Retrieval, Machine Translation with Speech,
Question Answering with Natural Language Processing, etc.). The
conference will give special consideration to papers that address the
topic of learning from and exploiting knowledge encoded in massive,
unstructured collections like the Web.
The conference organization is overseen by a board
representing the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (NAACL), ACM-SIGIR, the International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA), and HLT funding agencies in North
America.
IMPORTANT DATES
Nov 1, | 2003 | Due: proposals for workshops and tutorials |
Nov 15, | 2003 | Due: full papers |
| | Notification: acceptance/rejection of workshops |
Dec 14, | 2003 | Due: proposals for demos |
Dec 15, | 2003 | Notification: acceptance/rejection of tutorials proposals |
Jan 23, | 2004 | Notification: acceptance/rejection of full papers |
Feb 1, | 2004 | Notification: acceptance/rejection of demos |
Feb 4, | 2004 | Due: late-breaking short papers, posters |
Mar 8, | 2004 | Notification: acceptance/rejection of short papers, posters |
Mar 17, | 2004 | Due: camera-ready full papers, short papers, posters |
May 2-7, | 2004 | Conference |
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The conference addresses advances in all aspects of
human language processing, with special interest in computational
linguistics, information retrieval, and speech research together.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Speech processing, including:
- Speech recognition
- Speech generation
- Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information
structure and sources in speech
- Text summarization
- Question answering
- Information extraction
- Information retrieval
- Computational analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, discourse, style
- Statistical and learning techniques for language processing, including
- Corpus-based language modeling
- Lexical and knowledge acquisition
- Language generation and text planning
- Parsing
- Discourse analysis
- Multilingual processing, including
- Machine translation of speech and text
- Cross-language information retrieval
- Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
- Multimodal representations and processing
- Evaluation, including
- Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
- Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings
- Development of language resources, including
- Lexicons and ontologies
- Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
- Understanding of human communication, including
- Natural language interfaces
- Dialogue structure and dialogue systems
- Message and narrative understanding systems
DUE DATES
All submissions or camera-ready copy are due by midnight
EST on the date specified above.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
HLT/NAACL 04 submissions for full papers are due
on or before November 15, 2003. Submissions for late-breaking (short)
papers and posters are due on or before February 4, 2004. For
submission information for tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and
demos, please see:
Full papers will be evaluated in a blind review
process, as with previous NAACL conferences. Short papers will be
evaluated in a separate blind reviewing process. Two volumes of
proceedings will be produced; one for full papers and another for
short papers and demonstration descriptions.
FULL PAPERS
Requirements: Submissions must describe original,
completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results
when appropriate. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other
meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission
format); in the event of multiple acceptances, authors must notify the
program chairs as to the meeting they choose to present their work by
January 30, 2004, at the latest in order for their work to be included
in the proceedings. HLT/NAACL 2004 cannot accept for
publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published
elsewhere.
Format: Submissions must be electronic in PDF,
should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings (10pt
Times-Roman font) and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including
references. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available on the website -- these formats will ease the
transition to the proceedings version.
Reviewing: Reviewing will be blind. No
information identifying the authors should be in the paper: this
includes not only the authors' names and affiliations, but also
self-references that reveal authors' identities; for example, "We
have previously shown (Smith 1999)" should be changed to "Smith
(1999) has previously shown". Separate identification information
is required, and will be part of the web submission process.
Procedure: All interactions will be done via the
website and email.
A PDF file of the paper must be uploaded
onto the system by the date of the announced deadline. In addition,
information about each paper must be entered on the website. This
information will include:
Paper title
Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
Contact author
A short list of keywords (selected from a predefined list)
Abstract (no more than 500 words)
Whether or not the paper addresses the special topic of
learning from large, unstructured corpora
Whether or not the paper is under consideration for other conferences
Authors who for some reason cannot submit a PDF file
electronically should contact the program chairs in advance of the
due date to work out alternate arrangements.
LATE-BREAKING (SHORT) PAPERS
Submitted Short Papers will be carefully evaluated on
the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and
clarity of exposition. Short Papers may be accepted for presentation
in plenary OR poster sessions, as determined by the Program Committee.
The procedure for Short Papers submissions is identical
to that of the Full Papers, with the following differences:
- They may be accepted for oral presentation in plenary OR for
presentation in a poster session;
- The deadlines are later for short papers and posters than for
full papers;
- Short papers are restricted to four (4) pages in length, using
the two-column ACL format;
- Only two reviews per submission are guaranteed.
CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will be held at the Boston Park Plaza
Hotel, which is located in the center of Boston, one block from the
Boston Common and Public Garden. There are additional hotels within
walking distance, and dorm space may also be available. See the
website for more information: www.hlt-naacl04.org.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
General Chair
Julia Hirschberg,
Columbia University
Local Arrangements Chair
Christy Doran, MITRE
Program Committee Chairs
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
Daniel Marcu, ISI/USC
Salim Roukos, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Area Chairs for Full Papers and Short
Papers
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs
Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jim Glass, MIT
Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
Warren Greiff, MITRE
Ralph Grishman, NYU
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, Dallas
Don Hindle, Primus Knowledge Systems
Candy Kamm, FxPal
Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown University
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts
Kathy McKeown, Columbia University
Bob Moore, Microsoft Research
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
Doug Oard, University of Maryland
Kishore Papineni, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
John Prager, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Brian Roark, AT&T Labs
Roni Rosenfeld, CMU
Demonstrations Chairs
David Palmer, Virage
Joe Polifroni, MIT
Deb Roy, MIT Media Lab
Publications Chairs
Katrin Kirchoff, University of Washington
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Chicago
Miles Osborne, Edinburgh University
Publicity Chairs
Peter Anick, Overture
Peter Heeman, OGI
Shri Narayanan, USC
Sponsorships and Exhibits Chairs
Doug Jones, MIT Lincoln Labs
Roberto Pieraccini, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Student Workshop Faculty Advisors
Lisa Ballesteros, Mount Holyoke College
Eric Fosler-Lussier, OSU
Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University
Student Workshop Chairs
TBD
Tutorials Chairs
Alex Acero, Microsoft
Jamie Callan, CMU
Andy Kehler, UCSD
Webmaster
Pablo A. Duboue, Columbia University
Workshops Chairs
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois
Conference Oversight Committee
Donna Harman, NIST
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Eduard Hovy, ISI/USC
Karen Kukich, NSF
Sanjeev Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins
John Prange, ARDA
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah
Charles Wayne, DARPA
main contact for category
CONFERENCE WEB SITE
http://www.hlt-naacl04.org
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