NAACL-HLT 2015 Student Research Workshop (SRW)
Call for Papers
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/naaclsrw2015/home/
Submission deadline: extended to March 8 !!!
The SRW workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2015 in Denver, Colorado.
General Invitation for Submission
The Student Research Workshop provides a venue for student researchers to present their work in computational
linguistics and natural language processing. Students receive feedback from the general conference audience as well
as from mentors specifically assigned according to the topic of their work.
We invite papers in three different 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. For these papers, the first author must be a current graduate student.
3. Special undergraduate track. In order to encourage undergraduate research, we are offering a special track for
research papers where the first author is an undergraduate student.
Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as NAACL main conference.
Benefits of participation
* All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference poster session giving students an opportunity to
interact with and present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field.
* All accepted papers (thesis, research, undergraduate) will be published in the NAACL 2015 SRW Proceedings.
* Each participant is also assigned a mentor - an experienced researcher - who can provide valuable advice.
* Additional feedback is being planned for thesis proposals, as well as oral presentations.
Grants
Grants from the NSF and corporate sponsors will be available to offset some portion of the students' conference
registration, travel and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted soon.
Important Dates
All deadlines are calculated at 11:59 pm (PST/GMT -8 hours)
* Papers must be submitted by March 8.
* Acceptance notification deadline: March 30, 2015.
* Camera-ready copy due: April 6, 2015.
* NAACL main conference dates: May 31 - June 5, 2015.
Please check the website for updated timelines as further information becomes available.
Submission Procedure
- Please use the START website for submissions: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2015/srw/
- The format is the same as for the general conference.
The reviewing procedure and multiple submissions policy for the SRW are the same as those for the general
conference. They are repeated here for ease of reference.
Submission Guidelines
Both thesis proposals and research papers have a maximum limit of 6 pages for content and can include any number of
additional pages for references. Papers should follow these specifications:
Thesis Proposals may contain previously published work and must include specific research directions. They may also
be in the style of a paper that surveys and critiques existing literature and suggests future research directions.
Proposals may only have one author, who must be a graduate student. In addition, the authors of thesis proposals
should provide a CV. The CV should be at most 2 pages long and include educational background, publications, and
projected graduation date.
Research Papers (graduate and undergraduate) 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. Note that every student is only allowed to submit one first-
author paper. You may author multiple papers but since we mentor students and give feedback, we request you to only
submit one paper.
Reviewing Procedure
As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-
references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these
requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post your submissions on the web until
after the review process is complete (in special cases this is permitted: see the multiple submission policy
below).
We will reject without review any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines, anonymity conditions and
page limits.
Multiple Submission Policy
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time.
Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NAACL HLT SRW 2015 must notify the program chairs by the camera-
ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference
to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly
in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
Preprint servers such as arXiv.org and ACL-related workshops that do not have published proceedings in the ACL
Anthology are not considered archival for purposes of submission. Authors must state in the online submission form
the name of the workshop or preprint server and title of the non-archival version. The submitted version should be
suitably anonymized and not contain references to the prior non-archival version. Reviewers will be told: “The
author(s) have notified us that there exists a non-archival previous version of this paper with significantly
overlapping text. We have approved submission under these circumstances, but to preserve the spirit of blind
review, the current submission does not reference the non-archival version.” Reviewers are free to do what they
like with this information.
Contact Information
The co-chairs of the workshop can be contacted by email at: naacl-srw-2015 [at] googlegroups.com
Student Chairs:
· Shibamouli Lahiri, University of Michigan
· Karen Mazidi, University of North Texas
· Alisa Zhila, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Faculty Advisors:
· Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
· Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University
Program Committee
Amjad Abu-Jbara, Microsoft
Ayan Acharya, UT Austin
Gabor Angeli, Stanford University
Yoav Artzi, University of Washington
Beata Beigman Klebanov, ETS
Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt
Arianna Bisazza, University of Amsterdam
Yonatan Bisk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Colorado
Shu Cai, University of Southern California
Hiram Calvo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft
Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research India
Trevor Cohn, University of Melbourne
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland
Leon Derczynski, University of Sheffield
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech
Aciel Eshky, University of Edinburgh
Kilian Evang, University of Groningen
Paul Felt, Brigham Young University
Thomas François, UC Louvain
Annemarie Friedrich, Saarland University
Michael Gamon, Microsoft
Qin Gao, Microsoft
Amit Goyal, Yahoo Labs
Liane Guillou, University of Edinburgh
Eva Hasler, University of Edinburgh
John Henderson, MITRE Corporation
Derrick Higgins, Civis Analytics
Yuening Hu, Yahoo
Ruihong Huang, Stanford University
Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Varada Kolhatkar, University of Toronto
Jonathan Kummerfeld, Berkeley
Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento
Fei Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Yang Liu, UT Dallas
Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh
Nitin Madnani, ETS
Mitch Marcus, U Penn
Thomas Meyer, Google Zurich
Courtney Napoles, Johns Hopkins University
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
Matt Post, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher Potts, Stanford University
Rashmi Prasad, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Preethi Raghavan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Sravana Reddy, Dartmouth College
Roi Reichart, Technion
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
Eduardo Rodriguez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Kairit Sirts, Tallinn University of Technology
Thamar Solorio, University of Houston
Swapna Somasundaran, ETS
Kapil Thadani, Columbia University
Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge
Jason Williams, Microsoft
Travis Wolfe, Johns Hopkins University
Xuchen Yao, Johns Hopkins University
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
Qiuye Zhao, U Penn