2017Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative

Introduction:

The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), organized by The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) and hosted by The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) Associations, will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on November 27 – December 1, 2017.

Main Conference (Overall) Chair:

Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

Events: 1 Main Conference; 6 Workshops; 5 Shared Tasks

Event Chairs:

Main Conferece (Program):

Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta, gkondrak@ualberta.ca

Taro Watanabe, Google, taro.wtnb@gmail.com

Tutorial:

Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, kuro@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies GmbH, Michael.Strube@h-its.org

Workshop:

Min Zhang, Soochow University, minzhang@suda.edu.cn

Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology and Design, yue_zhang@sutd.edu.sg

Shared Task:

Chao-Hong Liu, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie

Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, pnakov@hbku.edu.qa

Nianwen Xue, Brandies University, xuen@brandeis.edu

Demo:

Seong-Bae Park, Kyungpook National University, seongbae@knu.ac.kr

Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) of Thailand,thepchai.supnithi@nectec.or.th