Student Sessions

8-12 June, 1999

University of Bergen

Bergen, Norway

CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS

Purpose

The goal of these sessions is to provide a forum for student members to present work in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The sessions will consist of paper presentations by student authors. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. Note that the existence of the student sessions does not influence the treatment of student-authored papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the aim of the student sessions is to provide a separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work.

Requirements

Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. Papers submitted to the main conference cannot be considered for the student sessions. Students may, of course, submit different papers to the main conference and the student session, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. Note that for papers presenting joint work, all co-authors have to be students.

Format for Submission

The maximum allowable length is 1800 words (exclusive of references).

NOTE: The original limit of 3 pages including references was based on a formatting distinct from the recommended submission styles (see below), which use double spacing. Please keep to the word limit; in the formatting for the final version of the paper, this will roughly correspond to 3 pages.

Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper ID code (see below), title, a short (5 line) summary, up to three general keywords specifying the subject area (e.g., "French syntax, machine translation"), the word count (excluding figures and bibliography) and a notice of multiple submission, if required. Since reviewing will be `blind', the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . . ") should be avoided. Instead, use references of the form "Smith previously showed (1991) . . . " Care should be taken to avoid obvious giveaways in the bibliography such as listings for unpublished in-house technical reports. Papers outside the specified length and/or without an ID code are liable to rejection without review.

To identify each paper, an ID code must be acquired by filing an electronic paper registration form: on successful completion of this form an ID code will be sent to the designated author by e-mail.

Media of Submission

Authors may submit their papers electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submission is strongly preferred.

Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript or PDF (we encourage LaTeX submissions). PostScript submissions must use a standard font. LaTeX submissions should not refer to any other external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.

We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX: eaclsub.sty (plus bibstyle acl.bst -- see also the sample) or Word style files for the preparation of submissions (all available here). These styles include a place for the required information such as ID code and word count, and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication.

If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the required format is here. If you cannot access this web page, send email to eacl99@cogsci.ed.ac.uk with subject SUBSTYLE for an automatic reply.

Electronic submissions should be sent to eacl99-student@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) paper copies of each paper (printed on both sides of the page if possible) should be submitted to the following address:

Enquiries to the Student Session Committee by email at eacl99-student@ims.uni-stuttgart.de.

Schedule

Submissions must be received by 18 January 1999. Late submissions (those arriving on or after 19 January 1999) will not be considered. Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) by 10 March 1999. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received at the main Programme Committee in Edinburgh by 19 April 1999, along with a signed copyright release statement. Detailed formatting guidelines will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. The student paper sessions will take place during the main conference on 9-11 June 1999.

Venue and Local Organisation

The conference will be held in Bergen, Norway from 8 through 12 June, 1999. See the conference home page for local arrangements information. The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Koenraad de Smedt. The Local Arrangements Committee can be reached at:

Student Session Committee

The student session committee is co-chaired by Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki) and Jonas Kuhn (University of Stuttgart).

    Atro Voutilainen
    Department of General Linguistics
    P.O. Box 4
    FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
    Finland

    Phone: +358 9 191 23 507 (office)
    Fax: +358 9 191 23 598
    Email: atro.voutilainen@helsinki.fi

    Jonas Kuhn
    IMS, Univ. Stuttgart
    Azenbergstr. 12
    70174 Stuttgart
    Germany

    Phone: +49-711-121-1354
    Fax: +49-711-121-1366
    Email: jonas@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Timetable

1999
18 Jan Submitted student papers due in Stuttgart
10 Mar Decisions on programme sent to authors
19 Apr Final versions of papers due in Edinburgh
9-11 Jun Student sessions at conference in Bergen

The URL for this page is http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/eacl99-student/

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