Connectionists: NAACL HLT 2016 - 2nd Call for Papers

[Wei Xu]

The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2016)

June 12 to June 17, 2016

San Diego, California, United States

http://naacl.org/naacl-hlt-2016/


NAACL HLT 2016 will feature long papers, short papers, demonstrations, and
a student research workshop, as well as associated tutorials and workshops.
In addition, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers
accepted for the new Transactions of the ACL journal (
http://www.transacl.org).

The conference invites the submission of long and short papers on
substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated
language processing and creation of language resources. The short paper
format may also be appropriate for a small, focused contribution, a work in
progress, a negative result, an opinion piece or an interesting application
nugget.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the study of the
following language areas, tasks, genres and approaches to language analysis:

* Linguistic Areas of Study *
- Discourse: anaphora resolution, discourse relation tagging, theories and
systems for text organization evaluation, methods for analysis of dialog
structure (spoken or written) and discourse semantics
- Morphology
- Phonology and phonetics
- Pragmatics
- Prosody
- Semantics: event, lexical, distributional, formal, extra-propositional,
grounding and ontologies
- Tagging, chunking, syntax and parsing

* Application Tasks *
- Dialogue and interactive systems, automatic speech recognition other
spoken language processing
- Image/video description generation
- Language understanding, language generation, summarization, information
extraction, question answering, information retrieval, machine translation,
recognizing textual entailment and semantic equivalence, relation
extraction, text simplification
- Mathematical models of language
- Predicting speaker/writer characteristics
- Sentiment analysis, text categorization (of words, sentences and longer
texts), text quality prediction, style analysis and lexicon induction
- Spelling and grammar correction and computer-aided learning
- Tokenization/word segmentation for Chinese and similar languages and word
segmentation in spoken utterances

* Research Goals *
- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistic research
- Corpus creation and evaluation
- End-user application building
- Integrate language and other modalities
- Linguistic theories for NLP
- Machine learning for NLP
- Sociolinguistic research

* Approaches to Language Processing Tasks *
- Machine learning: topic modeling, structured prediction, deep learning,
bayesian models, kernel methods, generative models, discriminative models,
semi-supervised learning, representation learning
- Optimization
- Exploiting multilingual resources
- Modeling linguistic knowledge (e.g., grammars)
- Algorithm development for NLP
- Corpus/data analysis

* Genres *
- Biological and medical text (BioNLP)
- Chat and Email (private unedited written dialog)
- Literature
- News
- Social media: twitter, blogs, discussion forums and other social media
- Spoken dialog and other spoken genres
- Search log analysis

* Languages *
- Low-Resource Languages
- Morphologically rich languages
- Other specific living language(s)


= Important Dates =

* Deadline for BOTH Long and Short paper submission: Jan 6, 2016
* Author response period: Feb 10–15, 2016
* Notification to authors: Mar 2, 2016

All deadlines are 11:59PM Pacific Time. Please DO NOT submit the same paper
in long and short paper form.


= Submissions =

* Long Papers *

NAACL HLT 2016 long paper submissions must describe substantial, original,
completed and previously unpublished work. The long paper deadline is
January 6, 2016 by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8). Each submission
will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.

Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited
pages for references. Upon acceptance, final versions of long papers will
be given one additional page (up to 9 pages with unlimited pages for
references) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.

Papers will be presented orally or as a poster presentation as determined
by the program committee. There will be no distinction in the proceedings
between long papers presented orally and those presented as poster
presentations.

* Short Papers *

NAACL HLT 2016 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must
describe original, completed and previously unpublished work. The short
paper deadline this year is also January 6, 2016 by 11:59PM Pacific
Standard Time (GMT-8). Types of short papers include:

- A small, focused contribution
- A negative result
- An opinion piece
- An interesting application nugget

Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited
pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5)
pages in the proceedings and unlimited pages for references. Authors are
encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in
their final versions.

Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions.
While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the
proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short
papers presented orally and those presented as poster presentations. Each
short paper submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee
members.

* Electronic Submission *

Papers should be submitted electronically using the Softconf START
conference management system at the following URL:

https://www.softconf.com/naacl2016/papers

The site will be open for accepting submissions one month before the
conference deadline.

* Multiple Submission Policy *

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors of papers
accepted for presentation at NAACL HLT 2016 must notify the program chairs
by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All
accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the
proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that
overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or
have been) published elsewhere.

Authors submitting more than one paper to NAACL HLT must ensure that
submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content
or results. Authors should not submit short and long versions of papers
with substantial overlap in their original contributions.

What is Considered “Unpublished Work”?
All prior peer-reviewed publications, either at a conference or workshop,
are considered published prior work. Preprints such as those on arXiv.org
and technical reports that are not peer reviewed are not considered prior
published work for purposes of submission. Authors must state in the online
submission form the name of the workshop or preprint server and title of
the non-archival version. The version submitted to NAACL HLT should be
suitably anonymized and not contain references to the prior non-archival
version. Reviewers will be told: “The author(s) have notified us that there
exists a non-archival previous version of this paper with significantly
overlapping text. We have approved submission under these circumstances,
but to preserve the spirit of blind review, the current submission does not
reference the non-archival version.” Reviewers are free to do what they
like with this information.


= Contact =

* Program Co-Chairs *

Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania
Owen Rambow, Columbia University

Email: naacl2016-program at googlegroups.com


* General Chair *

Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute


* Area chairs *

Mohit Bansal, TTI-Chicago
Regina Barzilay, MIT
Eduardo Blanco, University of North Texas
Asli Celikyilmaz,  Microsoft
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cornell University
Markus Dreyer, Amazon
Chris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Micha Elsner, The Ohio State University
Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University
Alexander Fraser, University of Munich
Michel Galley, Microsoft Research
Kevin Gimpel, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Microsoft Research
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University
Yulan He, Aston University
Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen
Heng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
Annie Louis, University of Essex
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research
Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California
Margaret Mitchell, Microsoft Research
Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
Viet-An Nguyen, Facebook
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
Marius Pasca, Google
Slav Petrov, Google
Dan Roth, University of Illinois
Alexander Rush, Harvard University
Kenji Sagae, KITT.AI <http://kitt.ai/>
Giorgio Satta, University of Padua
Hinrich Schuetze, LMU Munich
William Schuler, the Ohio State University
Mihai Surdeanu, University of Arizona
Kristina Toutanova, Microsoft Research
Byron Wallace, University of Texas at Austin
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University
Furu Wei, Microsoft Research
Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fei Xia, University of Washington
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