SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL 2001).

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 dialog modeling
• lexical acquisition
• machine translation
• multilingual technologies
• question answering
• statistical parsing
• summarization
• tagging
• term and named entity extraction
• word sense disambiguation
• word, term, and text segmentation

Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme:

Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches have made great progress; and important practical situations where common assumptions fail to hold. We emphasize that we seek submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. It is desired that such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation, of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result.

Submissions

• Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information (see submission format); in the event of multiple acceptances, authors are requested to immediately notify the EMNLP program chair (llee@cs.cornell.edu) and choose which meeting to present and publish the work at as soon as possible - EMNLP cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

• Format: Submissions must be hardcopy, and consist of full papers of not more than 3200 words (exclusive of references). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available here -- these formats will ease the transition to the proceedings version.

  Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and affilations, but also self-references that reveal authors' identities; for example, "We have previously shown (Smith 1999)" should be changed to "Smith (1999) has previously shown". A separate identification page is required: see below.

• Procedure: First, an electronic notice of intent to submit is required. Please email llee@cs.cornell.edu (subject line EMNLP 2001 ITS) by March 9 with the following information:

  Paper title
  Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
  Contact author
  A short list of keywords
  A short (no more than 5 lines) summary of the contents
  Whether or not the paper is under consideration for other conferences (please specify)
  

  Second, six hardcopies of the paper (without identifying information) together with a single separate page listing all the information from the notice of intent to submit (i.e., title, authors, contact author, keywords, summary, and multiple-submission information -- a printout of the notice of intent to submit suffices) must be received by March 13 at the following address:

  EMNLP 2001 Submissions
  Lillian Lee
  4130 Upson Hall
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
  USA
  

  The EMNLP committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mail problems. Papers will not be accepted electronically, and submissions that do not conform to the guidelines above are subject to rejection without review.

Important Dates

Regina Barzilay, Columbia
Thorsten Brants, Xerox
Chris Brew, Ohio State University
Eugene Charniak, Brown University
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
Ken Church, AT&T Research
Stephen Clark, University of Edinburgh
Michael Collins, AT&T Research
Eric Gaussier, Xerox
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Don Hindle, AnswerLogic
Changning Huang, Microsoft
Rebecca Hwa, University of Maryland
Hitoshi Iida, Sony
Paul Jacobs, AnswerLogic
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI
Maghi King, University of Geneva
Wessel Kraaij, TNO-TPD
Maria Lapata, Saarland University
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
Marc Light, MITRE
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta
Kim-Teng Lua, National University of Singapore
Lluís Màrquez, Technical University of Catalonia
Diana McCarthy, University of Sussex
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paola Merlo, University of Geneva
Rada Mihalcea, Southern Methodist University
Guenter Neumann, DFKI
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Franz Josef Och, RWTH Aachen
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Erik Tjong Sang Kim, University of Antwerp
Anoop Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania
Paola Velardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Atro Voutilainen, Conexor
Kiri Wagstaff, Cornell University
Roman Yangarber, New York University
Joe Zhou, Intel

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