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

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 on-going 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 very specific details of a particular area, assuming background knowledge that the majority of the audience may not possess. 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.

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

Submissions for the LTI SRS will be in the form of short abstracts. Abstracts should be 200 to 300 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.

Abstracts should be sent by email to Kenji Sagae (sagae+srs@cs.cmu.edu) by August 25, 2003 (Monday). Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors on September 2, 2003.