ACL-HLT 2011 Call for Papers

Long Paper Submission Deadline: December 17, 2010
Short Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2011

The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Human Language Technologies conference will be organized as a single event to be held in Portland, Oregon, on June 19-24, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. ACL-HLT 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. The conference is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics, in cooperation with The North American Chapter of the ACL.

The conference invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including but not limited to:
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval
Language Resources
Lexical Semantics
Lexicon and ontology development
Linguistic Creativity
Machine Translation
Multilinguality
Multimodal representations and processing
NLP for Web 2.0
NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
Natural Language Processing Applications
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Spoken Language Processing
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Summarization and Generation
Syntax and Parsing
Text Classification
Text Mining
User Studies and Evaluation Methods

Important Dates
Long Submission Deadline: 12/17
Long Notification: 02/11
Long Camera Ready Deadline: 04/15
Short Submission Deadline: 02/25
Short Notification: 04/08
Short Camera Ready Deadline: 04/22
Conference Starts: 06/19

Submission Information
Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
 
ACL-HLT 2011 will also accept papers accompanied by the resource (software or data) described in the paper. In addition to the regular review of the research quality of the paper, these papers will also be reviewed for the quality of the resource that is being made available. A separate review process will be organized for the research papers and for the accompanying resources. Papers that are submitted with accompanying software/data will receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation score, and acceptance or rejection decision will be made based on the quality of both the research and the software/data component.

Long papers
Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentation as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between full papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations. The deadline for long papers is December 17, 2010 (PDT).
Submission is electronic using paper submission software at: https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/papers/

Short papers
Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references. Short papers will be published in a separate volume, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentations. The deadline for short papers is February 25th. The following types of papers are appropriate for a short paper submission:
A small, focused contribution
Work in progress
A negative result
An opinion piece
An interesting application nugget

Mentoring Service
ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. If you would like to take advantage of the service, please upload your paper in PDF format by November 1, 2010 using the paper submission software for the mentoring service below. Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to (tb at ldwin.net)
Submissions for mentoring: https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/mentoring