ACL demos 2008

Call for Demos

The 46th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

http://www.acl2008.org/

June 15-20, 2008 Columbus, Ohio, USA

Demos Chair: Jimmy Lin (College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA)

The ACL 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. We encourage both the exhibition of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. Commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program, and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program.

We invite proposals for two types of demonstrations:

- Type I: theater-style, as part of the regular program

- Type II: poster-style, where demos are to be presented on table tops in sessions scheduled for a specific time slot.

Areas of Interest -

The special theme for ACL 2008 is "interfaces for NLP systems". We especially encourage work that attempts to bridge the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computational linguistics. Work of interest includes, but is not limited to:

systems, including retrieval, summarization, and QA engines (e.g., error analysis)
 * User interfaces for monolingual and multilingual information access
 * Dialogue and conversational systems
 * Visualization tools
 * Tools that assist in the development of other NLP applications

In addition, proposals for demonstrations of software related to any aspect of computational linguistics are solicited. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:


 * End-to-end natural language processing systems
 * Applications using embedded language technology components
 * Reusable components (parsers, generators, speech recognizers, etc.)
 * Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research
 * Software for evaluating natural language systems and components
 * Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts

Format for Submission -

Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair. Please use the main ACL paper formatting guidelines.

including title, authors, full contact information, references, and acknowledgements. Please indicate a Type I or Type II demo.
 * An extended abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated,

narrative, and either a Web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).
 * A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying

expected to be provided by the local organizer.
 * A detailed description of hardware and software requirements

The entire proposal should not be more than four pages.

Submissions Procedure -

Proposals should be submitted by March 14, 2008 to the ACL 2008 Demonstrations Chair. Submissions must be received electronically. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to:

Jimmy Lin College of Information Studies University of Maryland jimmylin -at- umd .dot. edu

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints.

Accepted submissions will be allocated four pages in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.

Important Dates ---

Proposal submission deadline: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance:  Apr 14, 2008 Camera ready copies due:     Apr 21, 2008 ACL-07 Conference:           June 15-20, 2008 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP