CALL FOR PAPERS

EACL 2014
The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Gothenburg, Sweden
26–30 April 2014
http://eacl2014.org/


INVITATION FOR SUBMISSIONS

The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated natural language processing, including but not limited to the following areas:

- computational and cognitive models of language acquisition and language processing
- information retrieval and question answering
- generation and summarization
- language resources and evaluation
- machine learning methods and algorithms for natural language processing
- machine translation and multilingual systems
- phonetics, phonology, morphology, word segmentation, tagging, and chunking
- pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue
- semantics, textual entailment
- social media, sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- spoken language processing and language modeling
- syntax, parsing, grammar formalisms, and grammar induction
- text mining and natural language processing applications


IMPORTANT DATES

- Long paper submissions due: 18 October 2013
- Long paper reviews due: 22 November 2013
- Long paper author responses due: 29 November 2013
- Long paper notification to authors: 20 December 2013
- Short paper submissions due: 6 January 2014
- Short paper reviews due: 3 February 2014
- Long paper camera-ready due: 14 February 2014
- Short paper notification to authors: 24 February 2014
- Short paper camera-ready due: 3 March 2014
- EACL conference: 26-30 April 2014


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on appropriateness, clarity, originality/innovativeness, correctness/soundness, meaningful comparison, thoroughness, significance, contributions to research resources, and replicability. 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 two extra pages for references; final versions should take into account reviewers' comments. Papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. Decisions on presentation format will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters.

The long paper submission deadline is:
- Friday, 18 October 2013, 23:59 CET.

Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Characteristics of short papers include a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions, and will be given four (4) pages plus 2 pages for references in the proceedings. 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 as posters. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least two program committee members.

The deadline for submission of short papers is:
- Monday, 6 January 2014, 23:59 CET.

Additional instructions for electronic submission, submission format and style files will be posted on the conference website at http://eacl2014.org/


ORGANIZATION

General Chair:
- Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel

Program Chairs:
- Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Stefan Riezler, Heidelberg University, Germany

Local Chairs:
- Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Aarne Ranta, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Yvonne Adesam, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Martin Kaså, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Publication Chairs:
- Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Yannick Parmentier, University of Orléans, France

Workshop Chairs:
- Anja Belz, University of Brigthon, UK
- Reut Tsarfaty, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Tutorial Chairs:
- Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Marco Baroni, University of Trento, Italy

Demo Chair:
- Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Student Research Workshop Chairs:
- Konstantina Garoufi, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Coskun Mermer, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
- Ivan Vulić, KU Leuven, Belgium

SRW Faculty advisor:
- Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Sponsorship Chairs:
- Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters, Switzerland
- Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
- Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Publicity Chair:
- Peter Ljunglöf, University of Gothenburg, Sweden