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COLING 2016 -- Second Call For Papers (Main Conference Full Papers)
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The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2016)
December 11-16, 2016
Osaka, Japan.
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is
pleased to announce the 26th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING 2016), in Osaka, Japan, at the Osaka International
Convention Center (OICC) (located in Nakanoshima in the center of Osaka).
COLING 2016 will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to
natural language and computation. The conference will include full
papers (presented as oral or poster presentations), demonstrations,
tutorials, and workshops. Oral and poster presentations of full papers
will not be distinguished in the proceedings of the conference.
We invite the submission of full papers on original and unpublished
research on all aspects of computational linguistics.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, grammar and lexicon;
- Lexical semantics and ontologies;
- Word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- Parsing, syntactic and semantic;
- Semantic role labeling;
- Discourse relations and Discourse Structure;
- Dialogue and conversational agents;
- Language generation;
- Summarization;
- Question answering;
- Paraphrasing and textual entailment;
- Multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- Information retrieval;
- Information extraction;
- Sentiment analysis, opinion mining;
- Computational argumentation;
- Social media;
- Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- Multimodal systems and representations;
- Applications;
- Tools in aid of NLP tasks and applications;
- Corpus development and language resources;
- System evaluation methodology and metrics;
- Machine learning for natural language;
- Cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing;
- Models of communication by language.
In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the
influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights), to
technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data), and/or
contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically
oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors
made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the
presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions
that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet)
attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.
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ABOUT COLING
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The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. The
conference is held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700
delegates. The 1st conference was held in New York, 1965. Since then,
the conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language
Processing conferences worldwide. The last five conferences were held
in Sydney (COLING-ACL 2006), Manchester (COLING 2008), Beijing (COLING
2010), Mumbai (COLING 2012), and Dublin (COLING 2014).
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SUBMISSION TIMELINE
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Main Conference (Full papers):
June, 2016: Opening of the submission website
July 15th, 2016: Paper submission deadline
September 20, 2016: Author notification
October 10, 2016: Camera-ready PDF due
November 30, 2016: Official proceedings publication date
December 11-16, 2016: Main conference
Paper submissions for COLING 2016 will be handled by the START system.
Before submitting your paper please ensure you have read the
Instructions for Authors and that your paper uses the prescribed style
files. To submit your work, please use the submission page at the
following address https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/main/ .
For COLING 2016, there will be one category of research papers only. All
papers will be included in the conference proceedings, this time in
electronic form only.
The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for
references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space in
the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming
from reviewers comments.
Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral
or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will
recommend an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee
which will then make the final decision. There will be no distinction in
the proceedings between research papers presented orally vs. as posters.
Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the
authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on
the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style
as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information
is removed from files submitted for review.
Reviewing of papers will be blind, and each paper will be reviewed by
three reviewers.
Papers must conform to official COLING 2016 style guidelines, which are
available in coling2016.zip. coling2016.zip has LATEX files, Microsoft
Word template file, and sample PDF file.
Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The
only accepted format for submitted papers is in Adobe's PDF. Submissions
must be uploaded on the START system
(https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/main/) by the submission deadlines;
submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network
congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as
possible.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Rashmi Prasad, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
AREA CHAIRS
1) Linguistic Issues in NLP
Tracy Holloway King, A9 Amazon, USA
Annie Zaenen, Stanford University, USA
2) Machine Learning for NLP
Trevor Cohn, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sujith Ravi, Google Inc., USA
3) Computational Psycholinguistics
Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Germany
Shravan Vasishth, University of Potsdam, Germany
4) Morphology, Segmentation, Tagging, Chunking
Daichi Mochihashi, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
Hinrich Schutze, University of Munich, Germany
5) Syntactic and Semantic Parsing, Grammar Induction
Daisuke Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
6) Lexical Semantics, Ontologies
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
7) Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics, Compositionality
Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Roser Morante, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stephen Wu, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
8) Discourse Relations, Coreference, Pragmatics
Vincent Ng, University of Texas - Dallas, USA,
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
9) Natural Language Generation, Summarization
Donia Scott, University of Sussex, UK
Hiroya Takamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Michael White, Ohio State University, USA
10) Paraphrasing, Textual Entailment
Roy Bar-Haim, IBM Research, Israel
Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University, Japan
11) Sentiment Analysis, Computational Argumentation
Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Swapna Somasundaran, ETS, USA
12) Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question Answering
Mausam, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India
Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
13) Applications
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Maria Liakata, University of Warwick, UK
14) Dialog Processing and Dialog Systems, Multimodal Interfaces
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK
Simon Keizer, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy
15) Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Chung-Hsien Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
16) Machine Translation
Graham Neubig, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Taro Watanabe, Google Inc., Japan
Min Zhang, Soochow University, China
17) Resources, Software and Tools
Christian Chiarcos, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
18) Under-resourced Languages
Alexis Palmer, Heidelberg University, Germany
Richard Sproat, Google Inc., USA
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CONTACT
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coling2016 [at] anlp.jp