CFP: IR related papers to ACL2008: HLT

We would like to call the WebIR research community's attention to the "ACL 

2008: HLT" conference.  This year ACL is making a concerted effort to 
attract excellent Information Retrieval research papers. 

Please consider submitting your IR research to ACL:HLT this year.  The 
ACL connection means that there will be some bias toward papers that 
touch on language technologies such as NLP, speech recognition, machine 
translation, discourse, and so on.  However, "general" IR papers, as well 
as WebIR papers, are 
entirely within scope, and areas with IR roots or connections are also 
encouraged: text mining, filtering, recommendation systems, question 
answering, classification, clustering, sentiment analysis, etc.

The submission deadline for ACL:HLT is January 10, 2008.  ACL will be 
held June 15-20 near Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  (The 
discount airline Skybus flies there from a large number of places around 
the US, and guarantees 10 seats for $10 each on every flight.  Of 
course, they're probably already taken, but it's nice to contemplate.)
If you're considering SIGIR instead or in addition, its submission 
deadline is January 28th [abstract due a week earlier].  SIGIR will be 
held July 20-24 in Singapore.  SIGIR's acceptance rate has been running 
slightly below 20% lately.

The complete call for papers as well as other useful information is 
available at http://acl2008.org.

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David Carmel
Information Retrieval Group
IBM Research Lab, Haifa 31905, Israel
Phone: 972-4-829-6223. Fax: 972-4-829-6116
carmel-7z/[email protected]