================================================================================ ================================================================================ COLING/ACL 2006 NEWSLETTER NO. 2 This is the official newsletter of COLING/ACL 2006 For complete details, visit the conference web site at: www.acl2006.org www.coling2006.org ================================================================================ ================================================================================ ================================================================================ :: Important Dates ================================================================================ Main conference paper submission deadline: February 28, 2006 (Tue) Student research workshop paper submission deadline: February 28, 2006 (Tue) Submission deadlines for workshops/co-located events: see below Tutorials: July 16, 2006 (Sun) Main conference: July 17-21, 2006 (Mon-Fri) Workshops: July 22-23, 2006 (Sat-Sun) ================================================================================ :: Table of Contents ================================================================================ 1. Final list of workshops/co-located events 2. Final list of tutorials 3. Main Conference Call for Papers 4. Call for Papers for Student Workshop ================================================================================ :: 1. Final list of workshops/co-located events ================================================================================ The final selection of COLING/ACL-2006 workshops and co-located events is as follows. For further details, see the individual web sites as listed below. ***************** PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS ***************** ================ JULY 15-16, 2006 ================ Title: 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue URL: http://sigdial06.dfki.de/ Submission deadline: March 6, 2006 Title: The Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms (TAG+8) URL: http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/TAG+8/ Submission deadline: April 7, 2006 Title: INLG 2006: International Conference on Natural Language Generation --- The Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language (SIGGEN). URL: http://www.ict.csiro.au/inlg2006/ Submission deadline: April 19, 2006 ***************** POST-CONFERENCE EVENTS ***************** ================ JULY 22, 2006 ================ Title: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006: A Merged Workshop with 7th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) and Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III URL: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/frontiers2006/ Submission deadline: March 31, 2006 Title: Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~mgamon/ws3.aspx Submission deadline: April 7, 2006 Title: Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP-06) URL: http://www.cslp06.org/ Submission deadline: April 21, 2006 Title: 2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge URL: http://olp.dfki.de/olp2/olp2_cfp.htm Submission deadline: April 17, 2006 Title: Information Extraction Beyond the Document URL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/result/iebd06/ Submission deadline: March 31, 2006 ================ JULY 22-23, 2006 ================ Title: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2006) URL: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/SIGDAT/emnlp06.html Submission deadline: April 13, 2006 Title: Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing URL: http://www.sighan.org/swclp5/ Submission deadline: April 12, 2006 ================ JULY 23, 2006 ================ Title: Multilingual Language Resources and Interoperability URL: http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.dhamlri06/ Submission deadline: April 3, 2006 Title: Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties URL: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~avillavicencio/mwe-acl06.html Submission deadline: April 12,2006 Title: Linguistic Distances URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/ling-distances/ Submission deadline: April 1, 2006 Title: Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~lucyv/WS7.htm Submission deadline: May 1, 2006 Associated summarization task: Multilingual Summarization Evaluation URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~lucyv/MSE2006.htm Title: Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events (ARTE) URL: www.acl2006time.org Submission deadline: March 31, 2006 Title: How can Computational Linguistics improve Information Retrieval? URL: http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/cliir/ Submission deadline: March 24, 2006 ================================================================================ :: 2. Final list of tutorials ================================================================================ The following tutorials will be offered at COLING/ACL-2006 on July 16, 2006. Further details will be posted on the conference web site in due course. David Chiang and Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA) Synchronous Grammars and Tree Automata Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Mining Unstructured Data Michael Johnston and Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs--Research, USA) Multimodal Language Processing Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University, Scotland) Discourse Annotation: Discourse Connectives and Discourse Relations Joakim Nivre (Växjö University, Sweden) and Sandra Kübler (University of Tübingen, Germany) Dependency Parsing ================================================================================ :: 3. Main Conference Call for Papers ================================================================================ Program Co-Chairs: Claire Cardie (Cornell University) Pierre Isabelle (National Research Council of Canada) Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2006 Camera ready papers due: May 26, 2006 Following up on the higly successful events at Stanford (1984) and Montreal (1998), the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics will be hosting their third joint conference in Sydney, July 17th-21st, 2006. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; lexical semantics and ontologies; word segmentation, tagging and chunking; parsing, generation and summarization; language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language; information retrieval, question answering, information extraction and text mining; machine learning for natural language; corpus-based modeling of language, discourse and dialogue; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; multi-modal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; applications, tools and language resources such as annotated corpora; and system evaluation. We are particularly interested in bridging the gap to other related communities, and so we especially welcome papers on speech technology and information retrieval. Also, for this first joint COLING/ACL conference to be held in Asia we especially encourage papers that address issues specific to the processing of Asian languages. Papers can be submitted to one of two categories: the REGULAR PAPER category or the POSTER category. Authors must designate one of these categories at submission time. Although both categories of submmission will be the same maximum length, regular papers will be presented a single time to a potentially large audience during one of the parallel paper sessions at the conference, and poster presentations will be repeated several times before small groups of people (using paper posters or demos) at one of the conference poster sessions. Regular papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results, while posters are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort. Regular papers and poster papers will appear in separate volumes of the proceedings. For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2006.org/program/papers ================================================================================ :: 4. Call for Papers for Student Workshop ================================================================================ Student Research Workshop Co-Chairs: Marine Carpuat (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) Kevin Duh (University of Washington) Important Dates: Paper submissions deadline: February 28, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2006 Camera ready papers due: May 19, 2006 The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL 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. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback both from the general audience and from selected panelists -- experienced researchers who prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. We invite all student researchers to submit their work to the workshop. As the main goal of the workshop is to provide feedback, the emphasis is on work in progress. The research being presented can come from any topic areas within computational linguistics including, but not limited to: * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon * phonetics, phonology and morphology * linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language * information retrieval, information extraction, question answering * summarization and paraphrasing * speech recognition, speech synthesis * corpus-based language modeling * multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids * spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems * multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems * message and narrative understanding systems For further information regarding requirements, reviewing, formatting and submission details, see the conference web site: http://www.acl2006.org/program/student-workshops ================================================================================