Student Research Workshop

HLT/NAACL 2003 Student Workshop Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

May 30-31, 2003

Submissions to the workshop are now closed.

Call For Papers

We would like to invite student researchers to submit their work to the upcoming HLT-NAACL 2003 Student Workshop. The main mission of the workshop is to provide feedback for students' work in progress. Original and unpublished research is invited on all aspects of speech, information retrieval, and computational linguistics, but we encourage research that is in the intersection of two or three of these areas:

Primary Topics

• Language Modeling
• Topic Detection
• Information Extraction

Additional Topics

  - Dialog systems and spoken language understanding (NLP and Speech).
  - Speech synthesis and natural language generation (NLP and Speech).
  - Speech-to-speech translation                     (NLP and Speech).
  - Spoken document retrieval                        (IR and Speech)
  - Prosody and parsing                              (NLP and Speech)
  - Question Answering                               (NLP and IR)
  - Summarization and Gisting                        (NLP and IR)
  - User Modeling and Adaptation                     (IR and Speech)
  - Disambiguation, Stemming, Lexical Chains         (NLP and IR)

Important Dates

(NOTE! submission deadline has been pushed back a week)

Paper submissions deadline:    March 22, midnight EST (hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance:    April 7
Camera ready papers due:       April 14, 9:00am EST (hard deadline)
Workshop date:		       May 30-31

Area Coordinators

Speech: Costas Boulis,   University of Washington,             boulis AT ee.washington.edu
NLP:    Eric Breck,      Cornell University,                   ebreck AT cs.cornell.edu
IR:	Victor Lavrenko, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, lavrenko AT cs.umass.edu 

Faculty
Advisor:Marc Light,      University of Iowa,          marc-light AT uiowa.edu