Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop

Welcome to the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop! The Student Research Workshop is now an established tradition at ACL conferences and provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their work and receive feedback. This year we received a total of 25 submissions coming from 15 different countries, and accepted 12 of them. 5 will be presented orally, and 7 as posters, during a common poster session with the main conference. A total of 43 students and senior researchers agreed to serve on the program committee, which allowed us to assign 3 reviewers per paper. We would like to thank the reviewers for understanding the spirit of the Student Research Workshop and giving careful and constructive reviews. We hope their comments will be helpful to all the students who submitted their work. All presenters were offered travel grants to assist them in their travel to Singapore, thanks to generous support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, The Nagao Fund of the AFNLP, and The Walker Fund of the Association for Computational Linguistics.