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From: Peter Heeman  <heeman@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: CFP: ACL-95 Student session
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       ***   ACL-95       CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS       ACL-95   ***

			     Student Sessions
				  at the
   33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

		  ACL CONFERENCE DATES:  26-30 JUNE, 1995

Please note on your calendar the  correction in ACL  conference dates.  The
ACL call for papers that went out earlier  incorrectly listed the  dates as
June 23rd to  June 27th.  The  correct dates for both  the main and student
sessions are June 26th to June 30th.
				     
		   Massachusets Institute of Technology
		       Cambridge, Massachusets, USA



PURPOSE: The  goal of  these  sessions  is to  provide a forum  for student
members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members
of the  computational linguistics community.  This year,  the sessions will
consist  of poster presentations by student  authors;  students who are not
presenting and  senior researchers are invited to attend and participate in
the  discussion.   Extended  abstracts  of  the  accepted  papers  will  be
published  in a  special section of  the conference proceedings.  Note that
the student sessions  in  NO way influence the treatment of student-written
papers submitted to the main conference.  Rather, the student sessions will
provide an  entirely separate track emphasizing students' work  in progress
rather than completed work.


REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress
that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise.  Topics of interest are
the  same as for the  main  conference.  All authors must have ACL  Student
Membership (or  be  students even  though  paying  the regular  member rate
because  they earn a  regular income) at the  time of the conference.   For
membership  information, see the section on the ACL LISTSERV below.  Papers
submitted  to  the  main conference  cannot be  considered for  the student
sessions.   Students may, of  course,  submit  DIFFERENT papers to BOTH the
main conference and the student sessions, or papers on different aspects of
a particular problem or project. The most up to date information about  the
student  session can be found in  the file 95student-call.ascii in the  ACL
LISTSERV described below.


FORMAT  FOR SUBMISSION: Student authors should  submit preliminary versions
of  their papers, not to exceed 1800 words  (exclusive of references). This
supersedes the 3 page limit mentioned in  the ACL-95 call for papers, which
no longer applies.  Papers  outside  the  specified  length and  formatting
requirements  are  subject to rejection without  review.  Papers should  be
headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary
and  a  specification  of  the  subject area(s).  Since  reviewing  will be
``blind'',  the title  page  and  the  paper should omit  author names  and
addresses.  Furthermore, self-references that reveal the  authors' identity
(e.g., ``We previously showed (Smith,  1991)  ...'')   should  be  avoided.
Instead,  use references like  ``Smith (1991)  previously  showed ...''  To
identify each paper,  a separate identification  page  should  be supplied,
containing the  paper's  title,  the name(s)  of  the  author(s),  complete
addresses, the short (5 line) summary, a word count,  and the specification
of the subject area(s).


MEDIA OF SUBMISSION: Authors  may submit  their papers electronically or in
hard copy.  Electronic submission is strongly preferred.

Electronic  submissions  should  be  either  self-contained  LaTeX  source,
PostScript, or  ASCII  text  (we  encourage LaTeX submissions).  PostScript
submissions must  use a standard font and 8.5"x11" (``letter'') size pages;
please submit the identification page  in a separate message  and avoid the
default A4 page size  if  submitting  from Europe. LaTeX submissions should
use the the ACL  LaTeX submissions style file,  aclsub.sty; they should not
refer  to any other external files or styles except for the standard styles
for TeX  3.14  and LaTeX 2.09.   The  bibliography for  a LaTeX  submission
cannot be submitted as separate .bib  file; the actual bibliography entries
must  be  inserted  in the  submitted  LaTeX  source  file.  The style file
aclsub.sty is retrievable  from  the  ACL  LISTSERV server or the  ftp site
(access to which is  described below) or from Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou at
the address below.

Hard copy submissions should consist of six (6) copies of the paper and one
(1) copy of the identification page.  For both  kinds of submissions, if at
all possible,  a  plain text  version of the  identification page should be
sent separately by email, using the following format:

        title: <title>
        author: <name of first author>
        address: <address of first author>
        ...
        author: <name of last author>
        address: <address of last author>
        abstract: <abstract>
        word count: <word count>
        subject areas: <first area>, ..., <last area>

Papers should be submitted to:

        Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou,
        Department of Computer Science,
        450 CS Building,
        Columbia University,
        New York, NY 10027, USA;
        phone: +1-212-939-7122; fax: +1-212-666-0140
        email: vh@cs.columbia.edu


STUDENT  SESSIONS INFORMATION:  If  you  have questions about  the  student
sessions, contact Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou  by post, e-mail or phone (cf.
above).


SCHEDULE: Submissions in either format must  be received *** by 2  February
1995 ***.  Late papers will not be considered.  Receipt of submissions will
be acknowledged *** by 5 February  1995 ***.   Authors will be  notified of
acceptance *** by 20 March 1995 ***.  Authors will then have time to revise
their papers, taking the reviews into account. Camera-ready copies of final
papers for  inclusion  in  the  proceedings,  prepared in  a  double-column
format, preferably using a  laser printer,  must be received  ***  by 1 May
1995 ***, along with a signed copyright release statement.


ACL AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For other information on the conference and
on the  ACL  more  generally,  contact  Kathleen  McKeown  (ACL),  Columbia
University, Department of  Computer  Science,  New  York,  NY  10027,  USA;
+1-212-939-7118 phone;  +1-212-666-0140 fax; acl@cs.columbia.edu.   General
information about the  ACL AND  electronic  membership and order  forms are
available from the ACL LISTSERV.


ACL  LISTSERV:  LISTSERV  is a  facility to  allow access to  an electronic
document  archive by electronic  mail. The ACL  LISTSERV has been set up at
Columbia University's Department  of  Computer Science.  Requests from  the
archive should be sent as e-mail messages to

	listserv@cs.columbia.edu

with an empty  subject field  and the  message  body containing the request
command. The most  useful requests are ``help'' for general  help  on using
LISTSERV, ``index  acl-l'' for the  current contents of the ACL archive and
``get acl-l  <file>''  to  get a  particular file  named  <file>  from  the
archive. For example,  to  get  an ACL membership form,  a message with the
following body should be sent:

	get acl-l membership-form.txt

To get to required style file for LaTeX submissions:

        get acl-l aclsub.sty

Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have  many
requests for different archives to  process, requests are queued up and may
take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled.

The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP.  Here is an  example
of how to get the style file by FTP:

	$ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
        Name (cs.columbia.edu:smith): anonymous
        Password: smith@cs.school.edu   << not echoed
	ftp> cd acl-l
	ftp> cd Styfiles
	ftp> binary
	ftp> get aclsub.sty.Z
	ftp> quit
	$ uncompress aclsub.sty.Z

The membership form is found in the file:
        acl-l/Information/95membership.form.Z


PROGRAM    COMMITTEE:   The    committee   is   co-chaired   by   Vasileios
Hatzivassiloglou  (Columbia  University),  Peter  Heeman   (University   of
Rochester), and Johanna Moore (University of Pittsburgh).

An up to date list of the remaining, student and non-student members of the
committee will  be  made  available in the online version of this  call for
papers.


DON AND BETTY  WALKER  STUDENT FUND: Students submitting papers to the main
or student sessions  of ACL-95 may apply for  funds  from the Don and Betty
Walker  International Student Fund  to help defray  costs for attending the
meeting.   Further  information and application  materials can  be obtained
through  the   ACL  listserv  (listserver@cs.columbia.edu),  anonymous  ftp
(ftp.cs.columbia.edu),                                           WWW/Mosaic
(http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html), or by writing to

        Walker Fund Request
        Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
        P.O. Box 6090
        Somerset, NJ  08875
        USA


[Revised 14-Dec-94]

