ACL 2009 Student Research Workshop

Call for Papers
1. General Invitation for Submissions

The Student Research Workshop is an established tradition at ACL
conferences. The workshop provides a venue for student researchers
investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing to present their work and receive feedback. Participants
will have the opportunity to receive feedback from a general audience
as well as from panelists; the panelists are experienced researchers
who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the
presentation.

We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to
the workshop. Since this workshop is an excellent opportunity to ask
for suggestions, to receive useful feedback and to run your ideas by
an international audience of researchers, the emphasis of the workshop
will be on work in progress. The research being presented can come
from any topic area within computational linguistics including, but
not limited to, the following topic areas:

* pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon
* phonetics, phonology and morphology
* linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language
* information retrieval, information extraction, question answering
* summarization and paraphrasing
* speech recognition, speech synthesis
* corpus-based language modeling
* multi-lingual processing, machine translation, translation aids
* spoken and written natural language interfaces, dialogue systems
* multi-modal language processing, multimedia systems
* message and narrative understanding systems

2. Submission Requirements

The emphasis of the workshop is on original and unpublished research.
The papers should describe original work in progress. Students who
have settled on their thesis direction but still have significant
research left to do are particularly encouraged to submit their papers.

Since the main purpose of presenting at the workshop is to exchange
ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for
further development of the work, papers should clearly indicate
directions for future research wherever appropriate. All authors of
multi-author papers MUST be students. Papers submitted for this
workshop are eligible only if they have not been presented at any
other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Students
who have already presented at an ACL/EACL/NAACL Student Research
Workshop may not submit to this workshop. They should submit their
papers to the main conference instead. It must be indicated if a paper
has been submitted to another conference or workshop.

3. Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2009
Camera-ready submission deadline: May 17, 2009
Conference dates: August 2-7, 2009 (run concurrently with the main
conference)

4. Funding for Travel

In previous years the Student Research Workshop has secured funding to
assist
participants with travel and conference expenses. We will be applying
for such
funding again this year, and sincerely hope that financial constraints
do not
prevent any students from submitting their work.

5. Contact Information

If you need to contact the Co-Chairs of the Student Workshop, please
use: acl09-srw@cs.stanford.edu. An e-mail sent to this address will be
forwarded to all Co-Chairs.

Brian Roark (Faculty Advisor)
Oregon Health & Science University
Beaverton, Oregon, USA

Grace Ngai (Faculty Advisor)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong

Jenny Rose Finkel (Co-Chair)
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

Blaise Thomson (Co-Chair)
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK

Davis Muhajereen D. Dimalen (Co-Chair)
CLCLP, Taiwan International Graduate Program
Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Preliminary Program Committee:

Galen Andrew, Microsoft, USA
Shane Bergsma, University of Alberta, Canada
Dan Bohus, Microsoft, USA
Don Erick Bonus, Jose Rizal University, Philippines
Wauter Bosma, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Bill Byrne, University of Cambridge, UK
Colin Cherry, Microsoft , USA
Huang Chu-Ren, Academica Sinica, Taiwan
Shay Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Editha D. Dimalen, Mindanao State University, Philippines
Mark Dredze, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jacob Eisenstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Greenwood, University of Sheffield, UK
Masato Hagiwara, Nagoya University, Japan
David Hall, Stanford University, USA
LI Haizhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Aurelie Herbelot, University of Cambridge Eva Banik Open
University UK
Samar Husain, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Pei-Yun Hsueh, University of Edinburgh, UK and IBM, USA
Sanaz Jabbari, University of Sheffield, UK
Maggie LI (Li Wenjie Maggie), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Japan
David McClosky, Brown University, USA
Roser Morante, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Teruhisa Misu, NICT/ATR, Japan
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Patrick Pantel, Yahoo, USA
Jong C. Park, KAIST, Korea
JIN Peng, Peking University, China
Le Hong Phuong, INRIA Lorraine, France
Emily Pitler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Daniel Ramage, Stanford University, USA
Antti-Veikko Rosti, BBN, USA
Rachel Edita Roxas, De LaSalle University-Manila, Philippines
Philipp Spanger, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Reut Tsarfaty, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joseph Turian, University of Montreal, Canada
Lonneke van der Plas, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sumithra Velupillai, Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden
Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge, UK
Liang-Chih Yu, Yuan-Ze University, China
JIA Yuxiang, Peking University, China