CICLing

CICLing is a series of international conferences devoted to computational linguistics (CL), intelligent text processing, natural language processing (NLP), human language technologies (HLT), natural-language human-computer interaction (HCI), and speech processing and speech recognition (SR).

Topics of interest

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: text processing, computational morphology, tagging, stemming, syntactic analysis, parsing and shallow parsing, chunking, recognizing textual entailment, ambiguity resolution, semantic analysis, pragmatics, lexicon, lexical resources, dictionaries and machine-readable dictionaries (MRD), grammar, anaphora resolution, word sense disambiguation (WSD), machine translation (MT), information retrieval (IR), information extraction (IE), document handling, document classification and text classification, text summarization, text mining (TM), and spell checking (spelling).

Why CICLing?

Some factors that define its identity are:

• Excellent keynote speakers. The conference invites the most prominent experts to give keynote talks which, unlike at many other conferences, are published in extenso in the proceedings. These expert also organize an additional tutorials or discussions, and usually participate in the tours and social life, where you can speak with them in an informal environment.

• Prestigious publication. Proceedings are usually published in the Springer LNCS series, which is distributed to hundreds of libraries worldwide and is indexed by major indices. CICLing is included in the CORE list of conferences, which is important at some universities for promotion scoring.

• General interest. The conference covers nearly all topics related to computational linguistics. This makes it attractive for people from different areas and leads to vivid and interesting discussions and exchange of opinions.

• Informal interaction. The conference is intended for a rather small group of professionals. This allows for informal and friendly atmosphere, more resembling a friendly party than an official event. At CICLing, the attendees can pass hours speaking with most famous experts who one could hardly greet in the crowd at larger conferences.

• Excellent tours. The conference is intended for people young in their souls, adventurous explorers in both science and life. The conference's cultural program brings the attendees to unique marvels of history and nature hidden from ordinary tourists.

• Relief from frosts. In the middle of winter frosts, the attendees from Northern countries enjoy bright warm sun under the shadow of palms.