Tutorial Co-Chairs:

What's in a Name: Current Methods, Applications, and Evaluation in Multilingual Name Search and Matching
Sunday, June 4, 2006 (AM)
Speaker:

Beyond EM: Bayesian Techniques for Human Language Technology Researchers
Sunday, June 4, 2006 (AM)
Speaker:

Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
Sunday, June 4, 2006 (AM)
Speaker:

Automatic Spoken Document Processing for Retrieval and Browsing
Sunday, June 4, 2006 (PM)
Speaker:

Tutorial on Inductive Semi-supervised Learning Methods: with Applicability to Natural Language Processing
Sunday, June 4, 2006 (PM)
Speaker:

Automatic Semantic Role Labeling
Sunday, June 4, 2006 (PM)
Speaker:

Proposals are invited for the Tutorial Program for HLT-NAACL 2006, to be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge from June 4 to 9, 2006. The tutorial day is June 4, 2006. The HLT-NAACL conferences combine the HLT (Human Language Technology) and NAACL (North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) conference series, and bring together researchers in NLP, IR, and speech. For details, see http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/ .

We seek half-day tutorials covering topics in Speech Processing, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing, including their theoretical foundations, intersections, and applications. Tutorials will normally move quickly, but they are expected to be accessible, understandable, and of interest to a broad community of researchers, preferably from multiple areas of Human Language Technology. Our target is to have four to six tutorials.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain text, PDF, Microsoft Word, or HTML. They should be submitted, by the date shown below, to . The subject line should be: "HLT-NAACL'06 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".

Proposals should contain:

1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the tutorial topic and content. Include a brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a three hours (two 1.5 hour sessions). Tutorials should be accessible to the broadest practical audience. In keeping with the focus of the conference, please highlight any topics spanning disciplinary boundaries that you plan to address. (These are not strictly required, but they are a big plus.)

2. An estimate of the audience size. If approximately the same tutorial has been given elsewhere, please list previous venues and approximate audience sizes. (There's nothing wrong with repeat tutorials; we'd just like to know.)

3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.

4. A description of special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc). Tutorials must be financially self-supporting. The conference organizers will establish registration rates that will cover the room, audio-visual equipment, internet access, snacks for breaks, and reproduction of the tutorial notes. A description of any additional anticipated expenses must be included in the proposal.

PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS

Accepted tutorial speakers will be asked to provide descriptions of their tutorials suitable for inclusion in all of: email announcements, the conference registration material, the printed program, the website, and the proceedings. This will involve producing text and/or HTML and/or LaTeX/Word/PDF versions of appropriate lengths.

Tutorial notes will be printed and distributed by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). These materials, containing at least copies of the slides that will be presented and a bibliography for the material that will be covered, must be submitted by the date indicated below to allow adequate time for reproduction. Presenters retain copyright for their materials, but ACL requires that presenters execute a non-exclusive distribution license to permit distribution to participants and sales to others.

Tutorial presenters will be compensated in accordance with current ACL policies; see
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/tutorial-payment-policy.html .

Inquiries should be sent to .

IMPORTANT DATES

All submissions or camera-ready copies are due by 11:59pm EST on the date specified above.