Preliminary Call for Papers
SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2008. The conference will be held on October 25-27, 2008, at the Hilton Prince Kuhio, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, immediately following AMTA-2008 and the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation.
We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to:
* information extraction
* information retrieval
* language and dialogue modeling
* lexical acquisition
* machine translation
* multilingual technologies
* question answering
* statistical parsing
* summarization
* generation
* speech recognition and synthesis
* discourse and dialogue
* tagging
* term and named entity extraction
* word sense disambiguation
* word, term, and text segmentation
* general NLP-related machine learning techniques:
theory, methods and algorithms
Important Dates (Preliminary):
Submission deadline: July 3, 2008 Acceptance notification: August 21, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: September 15, 2008
Conference: October 25-27, 2008
Program Co-Chairs:
Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh (mlap at inf.ed.ac.uk) Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore (nght at comp.nus.edu.sg)
Conference URL: http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp08