Submission Guidelines
1. Important Dates (modified)
- Paper submissions deadline: May 14, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2007
- Camera ready papers due: June 29, 2007
- Doctoral Consortium: July 30 - August 2, 2007
- Summer School dates: July 23 - August 3, 2007
2. Submission Requirements
The submissions should describe original work, still in progress. The submissions may have more than one author; however, all of them MUST be students (PhD and MSc heading towards PhD).
The paper should include:
- the problem(s) that the proposed research is addressing;
- the main contribution(s) of the research to the CL & NLP field;
- the proposed solution(s), including a brief description of the methodology adopted;
- the future research plan.
3. Submission Procedure
Submission must be electronic. The only format acceptable is PDF (.pdf). Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, including references and annexes and should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings, available directly from ACL-07 or from a local copy. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly.
Papers must conform to the official style guidelines, and we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles including font size restrictions.
The papers will be uploaded on the dedicated EasyChair Paper webpage.
4. Reviewing
Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the Program Committee. Reviewers will be asked to provide detailed comments, and to score submitted papers on the following factors:
- ORIGINALITY: the results or ideas are novel and previously unknown;
- SOUNDNESS: the paper is technically sound and complete;
- RELEVANCE to the Doctoral Consortium;
- PRESENTATION: the paper is well-organized, easy to understand and is it well-formatted according to the templates;
- LANGUAGE: the paper is written in correct English.
5. Accepted papers policy
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium, at the Publishing House of the Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi.
By submitting a paper at the Doctoral Consortium, the authors agree that, in case the paper is accepted for publication, at least one of the authors will attend the Doctoral Consortium.
Questions regarding the submission procedure should be directed to the Organizing Committee.