NAACL Emerging Regions Fund CFP (deadline Aug 31, 2013)

[Ted Pedersen]

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

NAACL Emerging Regions Fund
Deadline:

31 August 2013 (midnight PST) for events to take place between
September 2013 and September 2014

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The goal of the NAACL Emerging Regions fund is to assist the creation
of a larger and more cohesive Computational Linguistics community in
Latin America, and to enhance more regional interactions among
students and researchers anywhere in the Americas.

If you cannot make this deadline, there will another deadline in
December for proposals in the coming year, however depending on funds
allocated during this deadline we may not be able to fully fund
proposals after December so please try to make this first deadline if
you can. NAACL recognizes that each region has specific needs and
concerns, and so we are open to a wide range of possible proposals,
subject to the constraint that these awards are intended to support
individuals, institutions, or events located in the Americas, and to
support travel within the Americas. NAACL will not support travel to
or from locations outside of the Americas, and in general travel
should be limited to a specific region in the Americas.

Examples of proposals that might help to build community could include
financial support for regional conferences or workshops, or providing
financial or material support for Natural Language Processing and
Computational Linguistics classes at colleges and universities in
Latin America. In addition, NAACL has a long tradition of supporting
student participation in conferences, summer schools, and NLP/CL
competitions, and would give high priority to such efforts in Latin
America or at regional events in the Americas. Note that this fund is
not intended to support student travel to the NAACL HLT conference, as
there is a separate fund available for the purpose.

Proposals will be evaluated by a committee consisting of members of
the NAACL Executive Board.

Please submit a proposal using the online form: http://bit.ly/naacl-er-2013

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If you have any questions about this CFP please send them to
naacl-...@aclweb.org

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Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse