|   | 
            
                 
	     
	       HLT/NAACL 2004 continues the combination
	      of the Human Language Technologies and North American
	      Association for Computational Linguistics annual
	      meetings begun in 2003. This year's conference will
	      include a special emphasis on bringing researchers with
	      common interests in computational linguistics,
	      information retrieval, and speech research
	      together. Topics of interest include, but are not
	      limited to, cross-language retrieval; summarization;
	      question-answering; language modeling for speech or IR;
	      all aspects of speech recognition and synthesis; entity
	      extraction; parsing and grammatical formalisms; machine
	      translation; shallow and formal semantics;  language generation; dialogue
	      systems; evaluation of language systems; and
	      applications of machine learning to all three areas
	      represented in the conference.
	       
                
	      
	      Endorsed by
	      
	      
	      
	       General Chair
	      Julia Hirschberg, 
	      Columbia University
	       Local Arrangements Chair 
	      Christy Doran, MITRE
	       Program Committee Co-Chairs
	      Susan Dumais, Microsoft 
	      Daniel Marcu, USC/ISI  
	      Salim Roukos, IBM 
	      
	        
            | 
             |