COLING 2010 - 1st Call For Papers

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COLING 2010 - The 23rd International Conference on
Computational Linguistics
The 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invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research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 at the website: http://www.coling-2010.org

* 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
- 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;
- July 2, 2010 Camera-ready full papers due (Main conference);
- July 10, 2010 Camera-ready full papers due (Workshops);
- Aug 21-22, 2010 Pre-COLING (Collocating conferences/ workshops)
- Aug 23-27, 2010 COLING 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 (CAS)
Sun, Le Institute of Software, CAS