Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa25699; 15 Oct 93 23:16:33 EDT Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa26528; 15 Oct 93 23:15:54 EDT Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA16326; Fri, 15 Oct 93 17:11:09 PDT Message-Id: <9310160011.AA16326@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: walker@bellcore.com (Don Walker) (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)) Subject: ACL-94 CALL FOR PAPERS To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:11:07 -0700 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU ACL-94 CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 27 June - 1 July 1994 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). 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. Since reviewing will be ``blind'', the title page of 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 previously showed (1991) . . .'' 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, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a specification of the topic area. SUBMISSION MEDIA: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Chair: James Pustejovsky +1-617-736-2709 Brandeis University +1-617-736-2741 fax Computer Science, Ford Hall Waltham, MA 02254, USA jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.) Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) 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 electronic mail, using the following format: title: author: <name of first author> address: <address of first author> ... author: <name of last author> address: <address of last author> abstract: < abstract> content areas: <first area>, ..., <last area> word count: SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their papers by 6 January 1994. Late papers will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 1 May 1994, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. STUDENT SESSIONS: There will again be special Student Sessions organized by a committee of ACL graduate student members. ACL student members are invited to submit short papers describing innovative WORK IN PROGRESS in any of the topics listed above. Papers are limited to 3 pages plus a title page and an identification page in the format described above and must be submitted by hard copy or both e-mail AND hard copy to Beryl Hoffman at the address below by 1 FEBRUARY 1994. The papers will be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members for presentation in workshop-style sessions and publication in a special section of the conference proceedings. There is a separate Call for Papers, available from the ACL LISTSERV (see below); or from Beryl Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania, Computer Science, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; +1-215-898-5868; 0587 fax; hoffman@linc.cis.upenn.edu; or Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-212-939-7120; 666-0140 fax; becky@cs.columbia.edu. OTHER ACTIVITIES: The meeting will include a program of tutorials coordinated by Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Road, MS K329, Bedford, MA 01730, USA; +1-617-271-7789; 2352 fax; lynette@linus.mitre.org. Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may arrange workshops or other activities. Further information may be available from the ACL LISTSERV. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by: Janyce M. Wiebe +1-505-646-6228 New Mexico State University +1-505-646-6218 fax Computing Research Laboratory PO Box 30001/3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA wiebe@nmsu.edu Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to Ted Dunning, New Mexico State University, Computing Research Laboratory, Box 30001/3CRL, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA; +1-505-646-6221; 6218 fax; ted@nmsu.edu. ACL INFORMATION: For other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-914-478-1802 phone/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 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 same file by FTP (user typein is underlined): $ ftp cs.columbia.edu ------------------- Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous --------- Password:pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ------------------------ ftp> cd acl-l -------- ftp> get membership-form.txt.Z ------------------------- ftp> quit ---- $ uncompress membership-form.txt.Z --------------------------------