Student Research Workshop in Computational Linguistics at the ACL 2008 Conference

计算语言学协会(ACL)是自然语言处理领域的主要国际组织。该协会的年度会议是这一领域的主要国际会议。这个项目是为了资助被选中参加计算语言学协会(ACL)学生研究研讨会的学生的旅费、会议费和住宿费，该研讨会是2008年6月15-20日在俄亥俄州哥伦布市举行的计算语言学协会会议的一部分。研讨会包括两个轨道：完整的论文演示和海报演示。所有选定的作品都只有学生作者。完整的论文会议由论文报告组成，随后由该领域受人尊敬的研究人员领导的讨论小组进行。这个研讨会是由学生组织和管理的。研讨会为下一代自然语言处理研究人员进入计算语言学领域提供了宝贵的机会。它允许该领域最优秀的学生通过接受外部专家对他们工作的批判性反馈，以及通过与他们所在领域的其他学生和高级研究人员进行接触，迈出成为专业计算语言学家的重要第一步。参与管理和挑选研讨会论文的学生也获得了宝贵的专业成长机会，并与主会议组委会的研究人员进行了互动。讲习班有助于维护和发展一支熟练和多样化的计算语言学和自然语言处理工作队伍，帮助培养一批具有自然语言处理科学和工程知识的研究人员。

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the primary international organizationin the field of natural language processing. The ACL's annual conference is the major internationalconference in this field. This project is to subsidize travel, conference, and housing expenses ofstudents selected to participate in the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) StudentResearch Workshop, which is part of the ACL conference on June 15-20, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio.The workshop consists of two tracks: full paper presentations and poster presentations. All selectedwork has only student authors. The full paper sessions are composed of paper presentations followedby a discussion panel led by respected researchers in the field. The workshop is organized and run bystudents. The workshop provides a valuable opportunity for the next generation of natural languageprocessing researchers to enter the computational linguistics community. It allows the best studentsin the field to take their first important step toward becoming professional computational linguistsby receiving critical feedback on their work from external experts, and by making contacts withother students and senior researchers in their field. The students who are involved in running andselecting papers for the workshop also gain valuable opportunities for professional growth and interactionwith the researchers on the organizing committee of the main conference. The workshop contributesto the maintenance and development of a skilled and diverse computational linguistics and naturallanguage processing workforce, helping to produce a pool of researchers with the scientific andengineering knowledge for natural language processing.