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。ACL年会是该领域的主要国际会议。该项目将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行、会议和住房费用，该研讨会是2008年6月15日至20日在俄亥俄州哥伦布市举行的ACL会议的一部分。研讨会由两部分组成：论文全文和海报展示。所有入选作品只有学生作者。完整的论文会议由论文演示和由该领域受人尊敬的研究人员领导的讨论小组组成。工作坊由学生组织运作。本次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一个宝贵的机会。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，并与其他学生和该领域的高级研究人员建立联系，迈出成为专业计算语言学家的重要的第一步。参与撰写和选择研讨会论文的学生也将获得宝贵的专业成长机会，并与主要会议组委会的研究人员进行互动。该研讨会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劳动力队伍，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.