Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

We welcome you to NAACL HLT 2009! The NAACL HLT program continues to include high-quality work in the areas of computational linguistics, information retrieval, and speech technology. This year, 260 full papers were submitted, of which 75 papers were accepted (giving a 29% acceptance rate); and 178 short papers were submitted, of which 71 were accepted (giving a 40% acceptance rate).