NAACL HLT 2007 Call for Papers

Human Language Technologies:
The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07

UPDATE: Paper submission deadline extended to October 18, 2006

General Conference Chair:  Candace Sidner (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)

Program Co-Chairs:

                        Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon University) 

                        Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)

                        ChengXiang Zhai  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Local Arrangements:  James Allen, Len Schubert, and Dan Gildea (University of Rochester)

NAACL HLT 2007 continues the tradition of the combined Human Language Technology Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings begun in 2003. The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. NAACL HLT 2007 will feature full papers, late-breaking (short) papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops. The conference is organized by the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), who is advised by a board representing the IR and speech communities and North American HLT funding agencies.

Topics of Interest:

• Computational analysis of language
  • Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialogue, discourse, style
• Speech processing, including:
  • Speech recognition and speech generation
  • Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information structure and sources in speech
• Information retrieval, text classification, and information filtering/recommendation
• Text data mining, information extraction, text summarization, and question answering
• Multimodal representations and processing
• Statistical and learning techniques for language, including
  • Corpus-based language modeling
  • Lexical and knowledge acquisition
• Development of language resources, including
  • Lexicons and ontologies
  • Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
• Language generation and text planning
• Multilingual processing, including
  • Machine translation of speech and text
  • Cross-language information retrieval
  • Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
• Intelligent systems for natural language interaction, including
  • Conversational systems for collaboration, tutoring and behavioral intervention
  • Embodied conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot conversation
  • Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative and digital entertainment
• Evaluation, including
  • Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
  • Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings

Submission information:

Full papers: Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work and should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings without exceeding eight pages, including references. Each submission will be judged chiefly on the strength of the argument it provides in support of its contribution, through e.g. experimental evaluation, theoretical analysis, or critical engagement with HLT. Reviewing will be double-blind; each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.

Late-breaking (short) papers: Submissions describing original, unpublished work can be submitted as short papers with a later deadline. The submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings without exceeding four pages, including references. Reviewing will be double-blind; each submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Short paper submissions may be accepted for oral presentation in plenary OR for presentation in a poster session.

Format: Submissions must be electronic in PDF, should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings, and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. Please see the conference website for detailed typesetting specifications. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files available on the conference website.

Demonstration, doctoral consortium, tutorial, and workshop proposals: See website.

Multiple-submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. In the event of multiple acceptances, authors must notify the program chairs by January 5, 2007, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. HLT-NAACL 2007 cannot accept for publication work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

Important Dates:

Please visit http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07 for more information.  

INTERSPEECH 2007
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS & CALL FOR TUTORIALS

August 27-31 2007
Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.interspeech2007.org

INTERSPEECH 2007 is the eighth conference in the annual series of INTERSPEECH events and also the tenth biennial EUROSPEECH conference. The conference is jointly organized by scientists from the Netherlands and Belgium, and will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007, under the sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

The INTERSPEECH meetings are considered to be the top international conferences in spoken language processing, with more than 1000 attendees from universities, industry, and government agencies. The conference offers the prospect of meeting the future leaders of our field, exchanging ideas, and exploring opportunities for collaboration, employment, and sales through keynote talks, tutorials, technical sessions, exhibits, and poster sessions. In recent years the INTERSPEECH meetings have taken place in a number of
exciting venues including most recently Pittsburgh, Lisbon, Jeju Island (Korea), Geneva, Denver, Aalborg (Denmark), and Beijing.

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS

ISCA, together with the INTERSPEECH 2007 organizing committee, would like to encourage submission of Special Session proposals for the upcoming conference, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics:

• Human speech production and perception

• Human speech communication

• Speech coding and speech enhancement

• Speech and audio signal processing

• Automatic speech and speaker characterization

• Speech synthesis

• Automatic speech recognition

• Speech technology applications

• Speech and multimodal resources

• Other relevant topics

Persons who would like to organize a special session are invited to submit a one-page proposal to special_sessions@interspeech2007.org on or before November 15, 2006.

Special sessions will be allocated one time slot of two hours. In exceptional cases two consecutive time slots may be allocated. Proposals should clearly describe the topic and the format of the session and explain why the topic cannot be covered appropriately in one or more regular sessions. Proposals also should include a list of at least ten names of independent persons or research groups who can be expected to make contributions to the special session. All papers submitted for Special Sessions will undergo the normal peer
reviewing process organized by the Scientific Committee of the conference.

CALL FOR TUTORIALS

We also encourage proposals for three-hour tutorials to be held on August 27, 2007. Those interested in organizing a tutorial should send a one-page description of the proposed tutorial to tutorials@interspeech2007.org on or before January 8, 2007.

Proposals for tutorials should contain the following information:

• Title of the tutorial

• Summary and relevance

• The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement describing the research interests and areas of expertise of the speaker(s)

• Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector, computer infrastructure, etc.)

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposals for special sessions: November 15, 2006
Proposals for tutorials: January 8, 2007
Tutorial Day: August 27, 2007
Main conference: August 28-31, 2007

Further information via website or email.

Organizers
Professor Dirk Van Compernolle (General Chair)
Professor Lou Boves (General Co-Chair)
c/o Annitta De Messemaeker
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Electrical Engineering
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
B3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Fax: +32 16 321723
Email info@interspeech2007.org
Website www.interspeech2007.org

IEEE/ACL SLT 2006 - Spoken Language Technology Workshop

Aruba Marriott - December 10-13, 2006

Given the limited space at the workshop, registration will be granted on a first come, first served basis, with priority given to authors with accepted papers. To register or obtain further information, please visit our website at www.slt2006.org. Further information is also available by calling the DISCOH spoken dialog system at 1-888-681-5290.