Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium: Speech, Language & Learning

The third Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech Language and
    Learning is a one day event that will bring together faculty,
    researchers and students from universities in the Mid-Atlantic
    area doing research on speech, language or machine learning. The
    colloquium is an opportunity to present preliminary or completed
    work and to network with other students, faculty and researchers
    working in related fields.
    
    The first MASC-SLL was held in 2011 at Johns Hopkins University
    and the second in 2012 at the University of Maryland, College
    Park.  

This year the event will be held at the University of
    Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore, MD from 9:30 to
    5:00 on Friday, 11 October 2013. There will be no registration
    charge and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
    
    Students and postdocs are encouraged to submit abstracts
    describing ongoing, planned, or completed research projects,
    including previously published results and negative results.
    Research in any field applying computational methods to any aspect
    of human language, including speech and learning, from all areas
    of computer science, linguistics, engineering, neuroscience,
    information science, and related fields, is welcome.  All accepted
    submissions will be presented as posters and some will also be
    invited for short oral presentations.
    
    Student-led breakout sessions will also be held to discuss papers
    or topics of interest and stimulate interaction and
    discussion. Suggest breakout session topics via easychair.
    
    There will be no registration fee. Students and postdocs are
    encouraged to consult with their supervisors about potential
    reimbursement of travel expenses.
    
    Abstracts should follow the ACL style guidelines and be no more
    than one page, excluding references. LaTeX and Word style files
    are available on the 2013 ACL CFP (http://bit.ly/cfp13acl).
    Submit abstracts and suggestions for breakout sessions via
    Easychair at http://bit.ly/ECmasc13.  Abstract reviewing will not
    be blind; please include all names and affiliations.
    
    Relevant topics include the following.
     o Computational models of human language processing
     o Computational phonology and morphology
     o Discourse and pragmatics
     o Evaluation
     o Information retrieval and question answering
     o Knowledge Base population and machine reading
     o Language acquisition
     o Language disorders
     o Language generation and summarization
     o Language resources and annotation
     o Lexical semantics and ontologies
     o Machine learning
     o Machine translation and multilingual processing
     o NLP for the Web and social media
     o Semantics
     o Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
     o Speaker variability
     o Speech recognition and synthesis
     o Syntax and parsing
     o Text and document classification
     o Text mining and information extraction
    
    Important dates
     o Registration opens: September 1
     o Submission deadline (abstracts): September 6
     o Decisions announced: September 13
     o Program schedule released: September 20
     o Registration closes: October 4
     o Colloquium: October 11
    
    Questions and requests for more information can be sent to the
    2013 MASC-SLL organizers via masc13-org@googlegroups.com.