The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 40th Annual Meeting hosted jointly with the North American Chapter of the ACL. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Click here for more details.
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a set of Program Committee members. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. A description of the format will also be available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. As reviewing will be blind. The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
You must submit a notification of submission by filling out this form. The authors should fill in the title of the paper, the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, one or two general topic areas, up to 5 keywords specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 200 words). The authors should also specify whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences or workshops, and if so, which ones.
Each submission will be assigned an identification number. Please use it on all correspondence with the program committee.
All papers must be submitted electronically at the same web address. The first page of your paper must include the identification number obtained from paper registration. The paper must be submitted no later than 12 noon Mountain Time (7PM GMT) on Feb. 1 2002. Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. Papers must be in PDF format. The submission web page includes information about converting different types of documents to PDF. The program committee will make every attempt to print out your paper successfully, but cannot take responsibility if they do not. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit papers 48 hours before the submission deadline so that unprinting formats can be detected and corrected by the submission deadline. If for some reason an author is not able to submit electronically, or if we have discovered in advance that there is a problem with the PDF file, authors should contact Dekang Lin concerning hard-copy submission.
Paper registration deadline: January 25th, 2002
Paper submissions deadline: February 1st, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 8th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: May 10th, 2002
ACL-02 Conference: July 7th-12th, 2002
ACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is not the language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the ACL meetings. They may also have some trouble with the style of the presentation of the material that is expected for ACL.
The service will be arranged as follows. A set of potential mentors will be identified by Aravind Joshi, who has agreed to organize this service for ACL'02. An author who would like to take advantage of this service must send a draft of his/her paper to:
Aravind K. Joshi
Room 555 Moore
Department of Computer and Information Science
200 South 33rd Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
USA
FAX: +1 215 898 0587
The author must send ONE copy of the paper (HARD COPY by regular mail or by FAX) by no later than December 14th, 2001. The author should try to make the draft as complete as possible in order to get the best advice. An appropriate mentor will be assigned to your paper and the mentor will get back to the author at least two weeks before the deadline for the submission to ACL'02 program committee (February 1, 2002).
Please note that this service is for the benefit of the authors as described above. It is not a general mentoring service for authors to improve their papers.
If you have any questions about this service please feel free to send a message to Aravind Joshi.