Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium

Welcome to the NAACL HLT 2009 Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium! We are pleased to continue this established tradition at ACL conferences. The Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium provides a venue for student researchers in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Human Language Technologies to present their work and receive feedback from the community. Unlike regular conference sessions, the workshop welcomes work in progress. In the tradition of previous doctoral consortia, we recruited expert panelists to provide a brief commentary on each oral presentation. We hope that as a result of this workshop, the student participants are able to obtain exposure to the NAACL community and that it helps with their future careers in this field. This year we received 29 submissions from 11 countries. With a strong program committee of 86 reviewers, from advanced graduate students to senior experts in their field, we were able to keep the individual reviewing load light and assign to each paper a team of three to six reviewers. Most papers were reviewed by two student reviewers and two established researchers.