Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT)

February 22, 2008

ACL-08: HLT takes place in Columbus, Ohio. It combines the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) with the Human Language Technology Conference (HLT) of the North American Chapter of the ACL. The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction.

January 10, 2008 - 11:59 PM EST Deadline for full paper submission
February 28, 2008 Notification of full paper acceptance
March 14, 2008 - 11:59 EST Deadline for short paper submission
April 14, 2008 Notification of short paper acceptance
April 21, 2008 - 11:59 EST Camera ready full/short papers due
June 15, 2008 Conference Tutorials
June 16-18, 2008 Main Conference
June 19-20, 2008 Conference Workshops

*Full paper submission period now over. Short paper submissions due March 14, 2008*: See https://www.softconf.com/acl08/papers
Letters of Invitation to Obtain Visas:
Requests for letters of invitation should be directed to:

Priscilla Rasmussen
ACL
acl@aclweb.org
Please include whether you have a paper accepted for presentation at the conference and, if so, the name of your paper. The letter of invitation will be emailed as a Word attachment to you on ACL letterhead.
General Conference Chair:
Kathleen McKeown (Columbia University) acl08chair@ling.osu.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
Johanna D. Moore (University of Edinburgh) J.Moore@ed.ac.uk
Simone Teufel (Cambridge University) sht25@cl.cam.ac.uk
James Allan(University of Massachusetts, Amherst) allan@cs.umass.edu
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) furui@cs.titech.ac.jp
Workshop:
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research China) mingzhou@microsoft.com

Tutorials:
Ani Nenkova (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA) nenkova@seas.upenn.edu
Marilyn Walker (Univ of Sheffield, UK) m.a.walker@sheffield.ac.uk
Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA) eugene@mathcs.emory.edu

Demos:
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) jimmylin@umd.edu
Student Co-Chairs:
Faculty rep: Jan Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh) wiebe@cs.pitt.edu
Student NL: Wolfgang Maier (U of Tubingen, Germany) wo.maier@uni-tuebingen.de
Student Speech: Ebru Arisoy (Bogazici University, Turkey) arisoyeb@boun.edu.tr
Student IR: Keisuke Inoue (Syracuse University, USA) kinoue@syr.edu
Local Arrangements:
Chris Brew cbrew@ling.osu.edu
Donna Byron dbyron@cse.osu.edu
Eric Fosler-Lussier fosler@cse.osu.edu
Detmar Meurers dm@ling.osu.edu
Michael White mwhite@ling.osu.edu
DJ Hovermale acl08local@ling.osu.edu (Webmaster)