CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
ACL HLT 2011 & EMNLP 2011

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the ACL Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data and Corpus-Based Approaches to NLP (SIGDAT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with either the ACL HLT or EMNLP conferences in the summer of 2011. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL and EMNLP communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the workshop organizers for both conferences.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Similar to 2010, the submission and reviewing of workshop proposals for ACL HLT and EMNLP will be coordinated.

Proposals for workshops should contain:

  1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
  2. The desired workshop length (one or two days), and an estimate of the number of attendees.
  3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.
  4. A list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed.
  5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.
  6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.
  7. A note specifying which venue(s) (ACL HLT versus EMNLP) would be acceptable to you; if both are acceptable, you may express preference for one or the other.
There will be a single workshop committee, coordinated by the two sets of workshop chairs. This single committee will review the quality of the workshop proposals. Once the reviews are complete, the workshop chairs will work together to assign workshops to each of the two conferences, taking into account the location preferences given by the proposers.

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops at http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-support-general-policy.html, the financial policy for workshops at http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-conf-financial-policy.html, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshops-Sig-financial-policy.html.

Please submit proposals in plain text in the body of an email to the workshop organizers no later than November 15, 2010, 23:59:59 UTC/GMT (which is 18:59:59 EST, 15:59:59 PST, and 08:59:59 JST on Nov 16).

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later than December 5, 2010. Since the two conferences will occur at different times, the timescales for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timescales for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary.

TIMELINES FOR 2011 WORKSHOPS

SHARED DATES
Nov 15, 2010* Workshop proposal deadline
Dec 05, 2010 Notification of acceptance
ACL HLT 2011
Dec 18, 2010 Proposed workshop CFP
Mar 18, 2011 Proposed paper due date
Apr 15, 2011 Proposed notification of acceptance
Apr 22, 2011 Camera-ready deadline
Jun 23-24, 2011 Workshops
EMNLP 2011
Jan 22, 2011 Proposed workshop CFP
Apr 22, 2011 Proposed paper due date
May 20, 2011 Proposed notification of acceptance
Jun 03, 2011 Camera-ready deadline
Jul 30-31, 2011 Workshops

* Deadline is 23:59:59 UTC/GMT for workshop proposals (18:59:59 EST, 15:59:59 PST, and 08:59:59 JST on Nov 16). We suggest that workshop organizers adopt the same time deadlines for their individual workshops.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers.