Full Title: 12th Meeting of the European Chapter of the ACL
Short Title: EACL 2009

Date: 30-Mar-2009 - 03-Apr-2009
Location: Athens, Greece
Contact Person: Joakim Nivre
Meeting Email: nivre@msi.vxu.se
Web Site: http://www.eacl2009.gr

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 10-Oct-2008

Meeting Description:

EACL 2009 is the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for
Computational Linguistics.

First Call for Papers

EACL 2009
March 30 - April 3, 2009
Athens, Greece
URL: http://www.eacl2009.gr

Submission Deadline: October 10, 2008

The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, original,
and
unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including,
but
not limited to:
- phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
- spoken language processing and language modeling;
- word segmentation, tagging, and chunking;
- syntax, parsing, and grammar formalisms;
- lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation;
- compositional semantics and textual entailment;
- pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue;
- lexicon, lexical databases, and ontologies;
- generation and summarization;
- information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction;
- machine translation and multilingual systems;
- dialogue systems and multimodal systems;
- language resources and tools, and resources for lesser studied languages;
- linguistic, psychological, and mathematical models of language;
- machine learning and algorithms for natural language;
- evaluation methodology.

Requirements:
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work
rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of
completion
of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at EACL 2009
cannot
be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available
published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences
or
workshops must indicate this on the submission page.

Review and Selection:
Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, and all submissions will receive
three
independent reviews. Final decisions on the program will be made by the
Program
Committee, consisting of the Program Co-Chairs and Area Chairs.

Submissions will be assessed with respect to appropriateness, clarity,
soundness/correctness, meaningful comparison, originality/innovativeness,
and impact of ideas or results. For more information about the review
criteria,
see the review form appended below.

Publication and Presentation:
All papers that are accepted will be published in the proceedings of the
conference, and will be presented as a poster or an oral presentation.
Authors
will be asked on submission to state their preferred mode of presentation,
and
the program committee will attempt to fulfill as many of these preferences
as
possible, organizational factors permitting. EACL 2009 will additionally aim
to
give poster presentations higher status than usual (by scheduling, physical
arrangement, combination with refreshments). The proceedings will not
distinguish long papers by presentation format.

Submission Information:
All submissions must be electronic in PDF and must follow the two-column
format of EACL proceedings. Authors are strongly recommended to use the
style files available on the conference web site. The maximum length of
a manuscript is eight (8) pages of content and one (1) additional page
of references. The page limits have to be strictly observed. As reviewing
will
be double-blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity,
e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'', should be avoided.
Instead,
use citations such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''. (Do not
use
anonymous citations.) Do not include acknowledgments. Papers that do not
conform
to these requirements will be rejected without review.

The deadline for submission is 23:59 CET on October 10, 2008. Additional
instructions for electronic submission will be posted on the conference
website at http://www.eacl2009.gr.

Instructions for Submission:
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: October 10, 2008
Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2008
Camera-ready papers due: February 13, 2008
EACL 2009 Conference: March 30 - April 3, 2009

Organization
General Chair: Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Program Co-Chairs:
Claire Gardent (CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France)
Joakim Nivre (Växjö University and Uppsala University, Sweden)

Area Chairs:
Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK)
Sabine Buchholz (Toshiba Research Europe, UK)
Chris Callison-Burch (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Philipp Cimiano (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst, Italy)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Richard Power (The Open University, UK)
Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento, Italy)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Local Chair:
Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)

Local Co-Chairs:
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Stelios Piperidis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece)