Accepted Papers

The following student papers have been accepted to NAACl HLT 2012. Congratulations!

• Automatic Metrics for Genre-specific Text Quality
  Annie Louis
• Unified Extraction of Health Condition Descriptions
  Ivelina Nikolova
• Finding the Right Supervisor: Expert-Finding in a University Domain
  Fawaz Alarfaj, Udo Kruschwitz, David Hunter and Chris Fox
• Indexing Google 1T for low-turnaround wildcarded frequency queries
  Steinar Kaldager
• Automatic Humor and Hence Author Classification on Twitter
  Yishay Raz
• Beauty Before Age? Applying Subjectivity to Automatic English Adjective Ordering
  Felix Hill
• Automatic Animacy Hierarchy Tagging
  Samuel Bowman and Harshit Chopra
• Domain-Specific Semantic Relatedness from Wikipedia: Can a Course be Transferred?
  Beibei Yang and Jesse M. Heines
• A Weighting Scheme for Open Information Extraction
  Yuval Merhav
• Choosing an Evaluation Metric for Parser Design
  Woodley Packard
• Using Ontology-based Approaches to Representing Speech Transcripts for Automated Speech Scoring
  Miao Chen
• Deep Unsupervised Feature Learning for Natural Language Processing
  Stephan Gouws

NAACL 2012 Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers

Survey

As part of the student research workshop this year, we're planning to hold a panel on reviewing practices. We want to start the discussion with the results from a survey on reviewing that we've prepared. You can find the results of that survey in this PDF:
srw_survey_results.pdf

General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at NAACL conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in computational linguistics and natural language processing to present their work and receive feedback from a general audience as well as from assigned mentors. The mentors are experienced researchers who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. Each accepted paper will be assigned an established researcher as a mentor, who will provide feedback on the work to the student at the conference.

The goal of the workshop is to aid students at all stages of their education. To that end, we invite papers in two separate categories:

1. Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for advanced students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.
2. Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work or work in progress with preliminary results.

We invite the submission of both full (6 pages) and short (4 pages) papers. The short paper format is appropriate for a small, focused contribution, interesting application nuggets, or a negative result. All papers will be presented at a poster session concurrent with the main poster session.

Submission Requirements

Thesis 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. Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate. The first author of multi-author papers must be a student, but additional co-authors need not be students.

Research Papers are eligible for this workshop only if they have not 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 submit to this track as a first author. These students should instead submit to the main conference or to the Thesis Proposal track.

Submission Procedure

Submission will be electronic using the paper submission web page below:
https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/NAACL-SRW2012/

Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed six pages (four for short papers), including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference. These files are available at:

A description of the format is available there in case you are unable to use these style files directly. All submissions must be electronic: please use the submission website above to submit your paper.

Reviewing Procedure

The reviewing of papers will be double-blind, so please make sure your paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted for review. For example, rather than this: "We showed previously (Smith, 2001), ...", use citations such as: "Smith (2001) previously showed ...".

Schedule

The papers must be submitted no later than 11:59 PST, February 6, 2012. No papers received after this deadline will be accepted. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on March 26, 2012. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.

The Student Research Workshop will be held during the NAACL HLT 2012 conference.

Contact Information

The co-chairs of the Student Research Workshop can be contacted by email at: naaclsrw2012--AT--gmail.com

• Roger Levy (Faculty Advisor), University of California, San Diego, California, USA
• Ani Nenkova (Faculty Advisor), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Rivka Levitan (Co-chair), Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
• Myle Ott (Co-chair), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA