The Program Committee of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ACL-02, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7th-12th, 2002. The tutorials for ACL '02 will be held on July 7th, 2002. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three-hour tutorial slot (including a 30 minute break). However, in exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are possible as well. There will be space and time for at most four three-hour tutorials.
Tutorials Chair
Hwee Tou Ng, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore.Tutorial Reviewers
Pamela Jordan (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Jakub Zavrel (Textkernel, the Netherlands)
Submission Details
Proposals for tutorials should contain:
- A title and brief (less than 500 words) content description of the tutorial topic.
- The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement of the speaker's(s') research interests and areas of expertise.
- Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector, computer infrastructure, etc.)
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII (iso8859-1) text as soon as possible, but in any case no later than January 11th, 2002.
Please email your proposals to nght@comp.nus.edu.sg.
PLEASE NOTE: PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY REGULAR MAIL OR FAX.
Practical Arrangements
Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by January 25th, 2002 and must then provide descriptions of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by March 29th, 2002. The description should be in three formats:
- a latex version that fits onto 1/2 page;
- an ASCII (iso8859-1) version that can be included with the email announcement;
- and an HTML version that can be included on the conference home page.
Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the overhead transparencies to be used as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial by May 10th, 2002.
Financial Information
The current ACL policy is that tutorials are reimbursed at the following rate: US$500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15 per registrant in excess of 50. Note that this is per tutorial, not per presenter: multiple presenters will split the proceeds, the default assumption being an even split. The ACL does not usually cover any further expenses.
Important Dates
Submission deadline for proposal: 11th January, 2002
Notification of acceptance: 25th January, 2002
Tutorial descriptions due: 29th March, 2002
Tutorial course material due: 10th May, 2002
Tutorials date: 7th July, 2002