Coling 2004 logo The deadline for submissions has passed. No further submissions will be accepted via the website. Call for Papers The deadline for submissions has passed. No further submissions will be accepted via this website. COLING-04 solicits submissions of original and unpublished papers in all areas of computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technology -- in short, all and any work contributing to the theory and practice of processing natural language by computers. The papers may: * be theoretical or application-oriented * describe methods, environments and specific language processing tasks * relate to spoken or written language processing * relate to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, * discourse or any combination of the above * present small specialized or large integrated systems * relate to the tasks of text understanding or generation * relate to any type of application and any subject and task domain * describe machine-tractable treatment of specific phenomena in any language * relate to knowledge resources and their acquisition and maintenance * be devoted to cross-linguistic work in applications and resource acquisition * present output and resource quality evaluation reports. The program committee especially encourages the submission of high-quality innovative work even if it does not fall into one of the established research and development paradigms in the field. Papers must be written in English. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Notification of acceptance: Camera-ready versions: March 26, 2004 May 14, 2004 June 7, 2004 How to Submit: The main conference solicits original unpublished contributions in two categories * regular papers presenting mature research results (at most seven proceedings pages) and * project notes describing intermediate results of ongoing research projects or system demonstrations (at most four pages). Templates for paper formatting are available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html Frequently Asked Questions Will the reviewing be blind? No, COLING submissions are not blind. The authors should be listed on the submissions. Can I submit a paper that was already submitted to another conference? Yes. However, a paper can be presented at only one conference. If you choose to present it at another conference, the COLING program committee must be informed within 2 days of notification of acceptance. If you choose to present it at COLING, the paper must not appear in any other conference proceedings. Submissions must be electronic. The teams of COLING reviewers will be coordinated by the Program Committee: Christian Boitet Nicoletta Calzolari John Carroll Eva Hajicova Nancy Ide Tanya Korelsky Winfried Lenders Dan Melamed Dan Moldovan Srini Narayanan Sergei Nirenburg (Chair) Martha Palmer Antonio Sanfilippo Harold Somers Tomek Strzalkowski Wayne Ward Shuly Wintner Grenoble University University of Pisa University of Sussex Charles University Vassar College CoGenTex, Inc. University of Bonn New York University University of Texas at Dallas ICSI University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Pennsylvania Pacific Northwest National Laboratory UMIST SUNY at Albany University of Colorado University of Haifa