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***** Deadline extended to: April 3, 2009 *****

The Sixth Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC-09)

MCLC offers a less formal forum for computational linguistics
researchers to get together and present ideas and research results. It
is intended to be primarily for researchers from the Midwest region,
but applications from all regions are welcome. We particularly
welcome work in progress from graduate students and other young
researchers. The first meeting of MCLC was successfully held
at Indiana University, Bloomington in 2004, and we're pleased to bring
it back to Indiana.

http://cl.indiana.edu/~mclc09/

==== Submission Guidelines ====

- Researchers should prepare a 2-page, extended abstract using the ACL
style files.
- The abstract should be anonymous.
- Abstracts should be emailed to [log in to unmask] no later than
March 27, 2009. The abstract should be in .pdf format.

Each abstract will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. The major
criteria of evaluation will be the originality, soundness, and clarity
of the research idea presented and the relevance of the topic to the
colloquium.

==== Registration ====

Registration will be free.

==== Publication ====

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited (but not required) to
submit a 4-8 page full paper using the ACL style files for the
proceedings. Copyright of a submitted paper remains with the
author(s).

==== Important Dates ====

Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2009
Final papers due: April 24, 2009
Colloquium: May 2-3, 2009

==== Organizing Committee ====
Markus Dickinson, Indiana University
Sandra Kuebler, Indiana University

==== Program Committee ====

Steve Abney, University of Michigan
Helen Aristar-Dry, Institute for Language and Information Technology
Chris Brew, Ohio State University
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mike Gasser, Indiana University
Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJohn
Goldsmith, University of Chicago
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stefan Kaufmann, Northwestern University
Brett Kessler, Washington University in St. Louis
Larry Moss, Indiana University
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota at Duluth
Victor Raskin, Purdue University
Jason Riggle, University of Chicago
Jim Rogers, Earlham College
William Schuler, University of Minnesota
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mike White, Ohio State University

==== Contact ====

Email questions to: [log in to unmask]
http://cl.indiana.edu/~mclc09/