Language Technologies 2001:
2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter
of the
Association for Computational Linguistics

June 2-7, 2001

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl/demo-cfp.html

(General conference URL --- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html)

Demonstrations Chair: Ronnie W. Smith (East Carolina University)

The NAACL 2001 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of
research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program, and should be arranged as part of the NAACL 2001 Exhibit Program)

Areas of Interest

We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Natural language processing systems, including
• Dialog systems and interfaces
• Machine translation systems and translation aids
• Message and narrative understanding systems.
• Language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction systems
• Application systems using embedded language technology components
• Reusable components (speech recognizers, parsers, generators, ...)
• Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research
• Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational linguistics research
• Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts

Demo Proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair (electronic submissions preferred).

• An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgements.
• A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer.  Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power.  Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions.
• A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total.

Submissions Procedure

Proposals should be submitted by March 2, to the NAACL-2001 Demonstrations Chair. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to:

Ronnie W. Smith
Department of Computer Science
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858 USA
rws@cs.ecu.edu
phone: +1 (252) 328-1906
fax: +1 (252) 328-6414

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints.
 

Other Details

Further details on the timing and format for the demonstrations sessions will be determined and provided at a later date.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline for Demo Proposal: 2 March 2001
Notification : 26 March 2001
Conference Dates: 2-7 June 2001
 
 

Author: Ronnie Smith, 2001