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{{Event
|Acronym=EMNLP 2008
|Title=Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
|Series=EMNLP
|Type=Conference
|Field=Natural language processing
|Start date=2008/10/25
|End date=2008/10/27
|Homepage=conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp08/
|City=Honolulu
|State=Hawaii
|Country=USA
|Submission deadline=2008/07/03
|Notification=2008/08/21
}}
'''2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008)'''


==Topics==
*information extraction
* information retrieval
* language and dialogue modeling
* lexical acquisition
* machine translation
* multilingual technologies
* question answering
* statistical parsing
* summarization
* generation
* speech recognition and synthesis
* discourse and dialogue
* tagging
* term and named entity extraction
* word sense disambiguation
* word, term, and text segmentation
* general NLP-related machine learning techniques: theory, methods and algorithms


==Submissions==
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Each paper may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content and one (1) extra page for references. Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Please use the official ACL 2008 style files at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/acl08/stylefiles.html. We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles, including font size restrictions. 

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate identification information is required, and will be part of the web submission process. 

Submission/Reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. To submit a paper, please visit https://www.softconf.com/s08/emnlp08/.

A PDF file of the paper must be uploaded onto the system by the submission deadline. Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed. 

Submissions presented at EMNLP should mainly contain new material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must disclose this information at submission time.


==Important Dates==
Submission deadline: July 3, 2008 (11.59pm PDT Pacific Daylight Time)<br>
Acceptance notification: August 21, 2008 <br>
Camera-ready copy due: September 15, 2008<br>
Conference: October 25-27, 2008


==Committees==
'''Program Co-Chairs'''
*Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
*Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore)


'''Area Chairs'''
*Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country) 
*Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research) 
*Noemie Elhadad (Columbia University) 
*Radu Florian (IBM Research) 
*Rebecca Hwa (University of Pittsburgh) 
*Dan Klein (University of California at Berkeley) 
*Hang Li (Microsoft Research) 
*Mu Li (Microsoft Research) 
*Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland) 
*Chris Manning (Stanford University) 
*Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) 
*Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington) 
*Bo Pang (Yahoo! Research) 
*Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research) 
*Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania) 


'''Local Arrangements Chair'''
*Priscilla Rasmussen 


'''Publications Chair'''
*Sebastian Pado (Stanford University)
Acceptance rate	30.1 +
Accepted papers	116 +
Acronym	EMNLP 2008 +
End date	October 27, 2008 +
Event in series	EMNLP +
Event type	Conference +
Has coordinates	21° 18' 16", -157° 51' 20"Latitude: 21.304547222222 Longitude: -157.85567777778 +
Has location city	Honolulu +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	Hawaii +
Homepage	http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/emnlp08/ +
IsA	Event +
Notification	August 21, 2008 +
Start date	October 25, 2008 +
Submission deadline	July 3, 2008 +
Submitted papers	385 +
Title	Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing +