CFP: COLING 2010 in Beijing!

CALL FOR PAPERS

COLING 2010
The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 1st Call for Papers

August 23-27, 2010
Beijing, China
http://www.coling-2010.org

COLING 2010, the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is being organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) and will be held in Beijing, China on August 23-27th, 2010 under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL). We look forward to welcoming you to Beijing, the cultural, educational, and political capital of China, and the proud host of the 2008 Olympics.

COLING will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. More details will be available closer to the April 19, 2010 submission deadline.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
-Syntax, semantics, grammar, and the lexicon
-Lexical semantics and ontologies
-Phonology/morphology, word segmentation, and tagging
-Summarization
-Language generation
-Paraphrasing and textual entailment
-Parsing and chunking
-Spoken language processing, understanding and speech-to-speech translation
-Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language
-Computational pragmatics
-Dialogue and conversational agents
-Computational models of discourse
-Information retrieval
-Question answering
-Word sense disambiguation
-Information extraction and text mining
-Semantic role labeling
-Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
-Corpus-based modeling of language
-Machine translation and translation aids
-Multilingual processing
-Multimodal systems and representations
-Statistical and machine learning methods
-Applications
-Corpus development and language resources
-Evaluation methods and user studies

Important Dates
Apr 19, 2010: Full paper submissions due (Main conference)
May 28, 2010: Acceptance notification of main conference
May 30, 2010: Submission deadline for workshop papers
Jun 30, 2010: Acceptance notification of workshop papers
Jul 2, 2010: Camera-ready full papers due (Main conference)
Jul 10, 2010: Camera-ready full papers due (Workshops)
Aug 21-22, 2010: Pre-COLING(Collocating conferences/workshops)
Aug 23-27, 2010: COLING 2010 Main Conference
Aug 28, 2010: Post-COLING (one-day workshops)

General Chair
Joshi, Aravind K, University of Pennsylvania

Program Committee Chairs
Huang, Chu-Ren, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Academia Sinica
Jurafsky, Dan, Stanford University

Organization Committee Chairs
Zong, Chengqing, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sun, Le, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences