NAACL 2001 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS Language Technologies 2001: 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

Demonstrations Chair: Ronnie W. Smith (East Carolina University)

The NAACL 2001 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program, and should be arranged as part of the NAACL 2001 Exhibit Program)

Areas of Interest

We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Natural language processing systems, including
  • Dialog systems and interfaces
  • Machine translation systems and translation aids
  • Message and narrative understanding systems.
  • Language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction systems
• Application systems using embedded language technology components
• Reusable components (speech recognizers, parsers, generators, ...)
• Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research
• Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational linguistics research
• 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 (electronic submissions preferred).

• An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgements.
• A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions.
• A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total.

Submissions Procedure

Proposals should be submitted by March 2, to the NAACL-2001 Demonstrations Chair. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to:

Ronnie W. Smith
Department of Computer Science
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858 USA
rws@cs.ecu.edu
phone: +1 (252) 328-1906
fax: +1 (252) 328-6414

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

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