The Student Research Workshop (SRW) will be held in conjunction with ACL 2018 in Melbourne, Australia on July 16th–20th, 2018.

The ACL 2018 Student Research Workshop (SRW) provides a forum for student researchers who are investigating various areas related to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for student participants to present their work and receive valuable feedback from the international research community as well as from selected panelists - experienced researchers, specifically assigned according to the topic of their work, who will prepare in-depth comments and questions in advance of the presentation. The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education: from those in the final stages of undergraduate training to those active with graduate thesis research.

The SRW invites two types of submissions:

• Research Papers: completed work or work-in-progress along with preliminary results. We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students, as well as Masters or advanced undergraduate students.
• Research Proposals: for advanced Masters and Ph.D. students who have decided on a thesis topic and are interested in feedback about their proposal and ideas about future directions for their work.

This year we provide two mentoring programs:

• Pre-submission Mentoring: the goal is to improve presentation of the student's work, not to critique the work itself. Mentors will provide feedback in the format of guidelines and suggestions to improve the overall writing.
• Mentoring for Accepted Papers: mentors will be responsible for providing feedback to students and preparing in-depth comments and questions prior to the workshop presentation.

Important Dates

• Pre-submission mentoring deadline: February 26, 2018
• Pre-submission mentoring feedback: March 19, 2018
• Paper submission deadline: April 8, 2018
• Review deadline: April 25, 2018
• Acceptance notification: May 2, 2018
• Camera-ready deadline: May 21, 2018

Submission procedure

The deadline for submission is April 8, 2018. Students who wish to receive pre-submission mentoring must submit by February 26, 2018. Please see the list of Important Dates and Submission Guidelines.

The SRW invites papers on topics related to computational linguistics, including but not limited to:

• Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
• Corpus development and evaluation
• Dialog and interactive systems
• Discourse and pragmatics
• Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval
• Natural language generation
• Information extraction, text mining, and question answering
• Language-inclusive multimodal integration
• Linguistic theories for NLP
• Low-resource or endangered languages
• Machine learning
• Machine translation
• Mathematical models of language
• Multilinguality
• Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation
• Resources and evaluation
• Semantics
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Social media: Twitter, blogs, discussion forums and other social media
• Sociolinguistics
• Speech, prosody and spoken dialog
• Summarization
• Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing
• Vision, robots, and other grounding applications