4th Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
NLPCC2015
Friday, 9 October 2015 to Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Country: 
China
City: 
Nanchang
Contact: 
Juanzi Li
Submission Deadline: 
Sunday, 7 June 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC2015)

Theme: Natural Language Analysis and Understanding in Big Data

October 9 - 12, 2015, Nanchang, China

URL: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2015

About the NLPCC Conference
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The conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of the CCF TCCI (Technical Committee of Chinese Information, China Computer Federation). NLPCC is a leading international conference specialized in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Chinese Computing (CC). It serves as a main forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences, and to promote their research and technical innovations in the fields. Previous NLPCC conferences were successfully held in Beijing (2012), Chongqing (2013) and Shenzhen (2014).

Today, NLP and CC technologies are among the most active research and development areas due to rapid advancement of the Internet as well as the worldwide proliferation of mobile devices and social media. The fields are facing many new challenges arisen from intelligent applications and big data, such as business intelligence, social analytics, etc. The fourth conference of NLPCC will focus on Natural Language Analysis and Understanding in Big Data including Fundamental Research in Language Computing, Multi-Lingual Access, Web Mining/Text Mining, Machine Learning for NLP, Knowledge Graph, NLP for social network, Information Retrieval, Question & Answering as well as the Applications of Language Computing.

Paper Submissions
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The conference welcomes original technical papers on new concepts, innovative research, systems, standards, testing & evaluation, applications, and industrial case studies related to NLP & CC. Authors are invited to submit complete and unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conferences or journals in English or in Chinese. Relevant topics of NLPCC’2015 include, but are not limited to, the following:
? Fundamentals of Language Computing
? Word segmentation & Named Entity Recognition
? Syntactic Parsing, Semantic Analysis, Discourse Analysis
? NLP for minority and low-resource languages
? Applications of Natural Language Processing
? Digital Publishing, Document Engineering, OCR & Fonts Computing
? NLP for Mobile Computing
? Machine Translation & Multi-Lingual Information Access
? Machine Learning for NLP
? Web/Text Mining & Big Data
? Information Retrieval & Extraction
? Knowledge Representation & Acquisition
? Personalization & Recommendation
? Semantic Web & Knowledge Base
? NLP for Search & Ads
? Query & Document Understanding
? Topic Detection & Tracking
? Sentiment analysis & Opinion Mining
? Question Answering & User Interaction
? Social Computing
? Rumor Detection

Submission Guidelines
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The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer LNAI series. All submissions must therefore be formatted in accordance with the standard Springer style sheets ([LaTeX][Microsoft Word]) and should be no more than 102 pages in length. Submissions should be in PDF format. Authors should specify a preference for ORAL or POSTER presentation.

Submission details are provided on the conference website.

For more information about paper submission, contact Juanzi Li (lijuanzi [at] mail.tsinghua.edu.cn), program co-chair.

Important Dates
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?Submission Deadline: June 7, 2015 (23:59, Beijing time)
?Notification: July 31, 2015
?Camera ready: August 10, 2015
?Tutorials /CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL):
October 9-11, 2015
?Main Conference: October 12-13

Organization
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Organizer:
China Computer Federation (CCF)

?Supported by
Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)

Hosts:
" Jiangxi Normal University, China
" State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing, Founder Group, China

Conference General Co-Chairs:
Zhi TANG, Peking University, China
Kam-Fai WONG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ch

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Juanzi LI, Tsinghua University, China
Heng JI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs:
Dongyan ZHAO, Peking University, China
Mingwen WANG, Jiangxi Normal University, China

Publishers:
Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer Verlag
ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis