Important Dates
• January 15, 2012 (11:59pm PST) : Long Submission Deadline
• March 11, 2012 : Long Notification
• April 30, 2012 : Long Camera Ready Deadline
• March 18, 2012 (11:59pm PST) : Short Submission Deadline
• April 23, 2012 : Short Notification
• May 7, 2012 : Short Camera Ready Deadline
• July 9, 2012 : Conference Starts
Invitation for Submissions
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Human Language Technologies conference will be organized as a single event to be held at the International Convention Center Jeju, Jeju, Korea, on July 8-14, 2012. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. ACL 2012 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. The conference is organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics.

The conference invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including but not limited to:
1. Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
2. Information Extraction
3. Information Retrieval
4. Language Resources
5. Lexical Semantics
6. Lexicon and ontology development
7. Machine Translation
8. Multilinguality
9. Multimodal representations and processing
10. Social Media
11. Natural Language Processing Applications
12. Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
13. Question Answering
14. Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
15. Spoken Language Processing
16. Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
17. Summarization and Generation
18. Syntax and Parsing
19. Text Classification
20. Text Mining
21. User Studies and Evaluation Methods