Call For Presentations

 LTI Student Research Symposium 2005

September 23, 2005

Newell-Simon Hall 1305

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: AUGUST 29, 2004

Best Presentation Award: $500

Two Honorable Mentions: $100

The LTI Student Research Symposium is a one-day series of presentations by LTI students on any research topic currently pursued at the LTI.  The Symposium will be held near the last week of Immigration Courses (IC), and will provide students with the opportunity to showcase their work to current LTI members as well as incoming LTI students.  PhD and Master's students are invited to submit abstracts on original language technologies work conducted at the LTI.  Among the submissions, around ten abstracts will be selected for presentation.

One of the presentations will be selected for a Best Presentation Award, which will be announced at the end of the Symposium.  The winner of the "Best Presentation Award" will receive a cash prize of $500.  Additionally, two Honorable Mentions will be selected, each receiving a cash prize of $100.

The presentation slides will be kept publicly available online on the Symposium website.  Presenters are encouraged to link additional papers or publications related to their topic of presentation.

 
Requirements

Presentations should focus on the research of LTI students.  While it is acceptable to situate that research within a framework provided by the work of others, the main topic of each presentation should be the student's own research.  Both completed and ongoing research efforts are welcomed, including work at early stages.

Because the target audience of SRS presentations will be the entire LTI research community, submissions should avoid focusing too deeply on specific details of a particular area.  Introductory and background information that helps the audience understand the research problem being discussed is both appropriate and encouraged, but the main portion of presentations should be dedicated to novel research.

Presentation Format

Each presentation slot will be 30 minutes long, with 20 minutes for the presentation itself and 10 minutes for questions.

A presentation in the Symposium fulfills the yearly presentation requirement and the speaking requirement for LTI PhD students.

Submission Format

Submissions for the LTI SRS will be in the form of short abstracts.  We strongly recommend the abstracts to be less than 400 words long, not including references.  Only PostScript, PDF, MS-Word and plain text submissions will be accepted.  There are no requirements regarding the specific format of abstracts.

Submission Procedure

Abstracts should be sent by email to Christian Monson by August 29, 2005 (Monday).