Conferences of Interest to the Lab

1. Computational Linguistics

• ACL : yearly
• NAACL : yearly, unless ACL located in North America
• EACL : yearly, unless ACL located in Europe
• EMNLP : yearly
• COLING: every other year

• [http://www.aclweb.org/ ACLWeb] (external CL resource page)

• LREC

2. Psycholinguistics

• Psychonomics
• CUNY

• Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) ([http://www.amlap.org/ AMLAP])

  • Deadline: May
  • Conference: Early September, Barcelona
  • Presentation types: same as CUNY

  • Summary: Same audience as CUNY, but more folks from Europe (since it takes place in Europe). Maybe traditionally more accepting of modeling work. Also less limited to sentence processing.

• International Workshop on Language Production ([http://www.lang-prod.org/])

  • Presentation types: invited talks, posters
  • Summary: Relatively small gathering (~60 people?) focused on language production. Talks are by invitation only, with a restriction that no speaker will be invited more than once. Talks are ~45 minutes, with ~15 minutes for questions. Discussion is heavily encouraged, and there are generally several panel-type sessions.
  • Publications: Work presented here is usually collect for a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes.

3. Cognitive Science

• CogSci

• Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

  • Deadline: Early May
  • Conference: Early December, Vancouver

  • Presentation types: oral (< 2% chance), spot-light poster (2min; < 5%), poster

  • Summary: Annual conference on machine learning on topics related to neural or cognitive themes, but actually pretty much hard core machine learning. About 1,000+ people from CS, engineering, cogsci, computational linguistics, neuroscience. Both theoretical and method related work is accepted as long as it meets the (high!) formal standards.

4. Linguistics

• Linguistics Society of America (LSA) ([http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm LSA])

  • Deadline: Beginning September (need to be member for submission; can become member along with submission)
  • Conference: January 7th-10th 2010 in Baltimore, MD.
  • Presentation types: oral (20+10), poster
  • Summary: Annual linguistics meeting. About 1,000+ linguists from all over the world. Many (6ish) parallel sessions about all types of linguistic work. Sometimes hard to attract enough people with processing or computational interest, but it's getting better. Good for overview talks.
• ICCM

5. Statistics

• http://www.cis.fordham.edu/QR2009/index.html