Costs & Inclusions

Pre-conference REGISTRATION is now CLOSED.

You may still register onsite at the pre-conference workshops and tutorials, or the main conference, at onsite fees.

Summary of Costs

Main conference registration 17 - 21 July

Full registration includes: CD-ROM version of the proceedings; admission to all main conference technical / thematic sessions, demos, and exhibits; coffee breaks; Sunday night Welcoming Cocktails; Poster Sessions on the 2 evenings Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 July; and the grand excursion on Wednesday 19 July.

ALL registration payments must be in Australian Dollars; the equivalent approximate prices in US Dollars, Euros and Yen are provided for your comparison only

CANCELLATION POLICY

Registrations may be cancelled in writing without penalty until 1st July 2006. After that date a $A77.00 administration fee will apply. Substitute delegates are acceptable at any time.

Conference Registration

	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Full Registration
Early Bird by 1 June	600	450	360	51,600
Late 1 June – 30 June	750	562	450	64,500
Onsite after 30 June	870	652	522	74,820
Student Early Bird by 1 June	300	225	180	25,800
Student Late 1 June – 30 June	375	281	225	32,250
Student Onsite	435	326	261	37,410

Conference registration FOR ANY ONE DAY
Early Bird by 1 June	200	150	120	17,200
Late 1 June – 30 June	250	187	150	21,500
Onsite	290	217	174	24,940
Student Early Bird by 1 June	100	75	60	8,600
Student Late 1 June – 30 June	125	93	75	10,750
Student Onsite	145	108	87	12,470

Pre- and Post- Conference Workshops and Co-Located events

These are priced depending on the length of the event: 1 full day, 1.5 days, 2 full days. The cost of attending these events is not included in the Conference Registration fee, but note that the prices are subsidised if you are attending the main conference.

One-day Workshops
	Start	End	Title
WS2	22-Jul	22-Jul	Information Extraction Beyond the Document
WS3	22-Jul	22-Jul	Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text
WS4	22-Jul	22-Jul	CSLP: Constraints and Language Processing
WS5	22-Jul	22-Jul	2nd Ontology Learning and Population Workshop
WS6	22-Jul	22-Jul	LINC: Merger of 7th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) & Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III: Finding Common
WS7	23-Jul	23-Jul	Task-Focused Summarization and Question Answering
WS8	23-Jul	23-Jul	How can Computational Linguistics improve Information Retrieval?
WS9	23-Jul	23-Jul	ARTE II: Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events II
WS10	23-Jul	23-Jul	MLR: Merger of Workshop on interoperable XML-based language resources: Using annotation resources to achieve cross-linguistic interoperation & MLR 2006: Multilingual Linguistic Resources
WS11	23-Jul	23-Jul	Linguistic Distances
WS12	23-Jul	23-Jul	Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties

Prices for One-Day Workshops for delegates also attending Coling-ACL
	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Early Bird by 1 June	133	99	79	11,438
Late or Onsite	167	125	100	14,362
Student Early Bird by 1 June	100	75	60	8,600
Student Late or Onsite	120	90	72	10,320

Prices for One-Day Workshops for delegates NOT also attending Coling-ACL
Early Bird by 1 June	200	150	120	17,200
Late or Onsite	250	187	150	21,500
Student Early Bird by 1 June	100	75	60	8,600
Student Late or Onsite	120	90	72	10,320

1.5-day Workshops
	Start	End	Title
WS1	22-Jul	23-Jul	SIGHAN - Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

Prices for 1.5-Day Workshops for delegates also attending Coling-ACL
	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Early Bird by 1 June	200	150	120	17,200
Late or Onsite	250	187	150	21,500
Student Early Bird by 1 June	150	112	90	12,900
Student Late or Onsite	180	135	108	15,480

Prices for 1.5-Day Workshops for delegates NOT also attending Coling-ACL
Early Bird by 1 June	300	225	180	25,800
Late or Onsite	375	281	225	32,250
Student Early Bird by 1 June	150	112	90	12,900
Student Late or Onsite	180	135	108	15,480

Two-day Workshops and Co-Located events
WS13	15-Jul	16-Jul	SIGDIAL: 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
WS14	15-Jul	16-Jul	INLG / SIGGEN: Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation
WS15	15-Jul	16-Jul	TAG+8: The Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms
WS16	22-Jul	23-Jul	EMNLP

Prices for Two-Day Workshops or Co-Located events for delegates also attending Coling-ACL
	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Early Bird by 1 June	267	200	160	23,000
Late or Onsite	333	249	199	28,638
Student Early Bird by 1 June	200	150	120	17,200
Student Late or Onsite	240	180	144	20,640

Prices for Two-Day Workshops or Co-Located events for delegates NOT also attending Coling-ACL
Early Bird by 1 June	400	300	240	34,400
Late or Onsite	500	375	300	43,000
Student Early Bird by 1 June	200	150	120	17,200
Student Late or Onsite	239	179	143	20,554

Pre-Conference Tutorials

These are all of half-day duration, either 0930-1230 or 1400-1700.

	Date	Session	Title
TUT 1	16-Jul	morning	Synchronous Grammars and Tree Automata
TUT 2	16-Jul	afternoon	Dependency Parsing
TUT 3	16-Jul	afternoon	Discourse Annotation: Discourse Connectives and Discourse Relations
TUT 4	16-Jul	afternoon	Multimodal Language Processing
TUT 5	16-Jul	morning	Mining Unstructured Data

Prices for all Half-Day Tutorials for delegates also attending Coling-ACL
	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Early Bird by 1 June	160	120	96	13,760
Late or Onsite	180	135	108	15,480
Student Early Bird by 1 June	113	84	67	9,718
Student Late or Onsite	133	99	79	11,438

Prices for Half-Day Tutorials for delegates NOT also attending Coling-ACL
Early Bird by 1 June	240	180	144	20,640
Late or Onsite	270	202	162	23,220
Student Early Bird by 1 June	170	127	102	14,620
Student Late or Onsite	200	150	120	17,200

Additional Items to Pre-Pay

We recommend pre-purchase of some items:

the 6-day Monorail Pass will be a great saving for those staying in hotels in the Darling Harbour precinct;
lunchboxes may be pre-ordered if you wish to collect and eat on-site - otherwise you're welcome to go out and buy your own lunch from the many eateries in the area;
if you wish to purchase a hard-copy of the 2-volume set of main conference proceedings, as well as having a free CD thereof included in your registration fee, please so order

	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Six-day Monorail Pass	25	18	15	2,150
Lunchbox for any one day Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri	27	20	16	2,322
Hardcopy of 2-volume Coling/ACL2006 Conference Proceedings	66	49	39	5,676

Social activities

The Welcoming Cocktails plus the Excursion on Wednesday 19 July are included in the full registration fees for delegates; additional tickets for guests may be purchased. Note that the conference dinner is not included in the Conference Registration Fee, so tickets for the Conference Dinner on Thursday 20 July must be purchased separately for both delegates and guests.

	AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Dinner - Full delegates	99	74	59	8,514
Dinner - Students	77	57	46	6,622
Dinner - guests	125	93	75	10,750
Welcome - guests- adults	55	41	33	4,730
Welcome - guests- child 14 and under	22	16	13	1,892
Excursion - guests	99	74	59	8,514
Excursion - guests - child 14 and under	44	33	26	3,784

Partner Tours

Two Partner Tours may also be pre-booked.

		AUD	USD	EUR	JPY
Sydney Tour Monday	Adult	58	43	34	4,988
	Child 14 & under	29	21	17	2,494
Blue Mountains Tour Friday	Adult	138	103	82	11,868
	Child 14 & under	69	51	41	5,934

Pre-conference REGISTRATION is now CLOSED.

You may still register onsite at the pre-conference workshops and tutorials, or the main conference, at onsite fees.