The CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of CCF-NLP (Technical Committee of Natural Language Processing, China Computer Federation, formerly known as 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). NLPCC is in the list of CS conferences recommended by CCF. 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), Shenzhen (2014), Nanchang (2015), Kunming (2016), Dalian (2017), Hohhot (2018), Dunhuang (2019), Zhengzhou (2020), and Qingdao (2021). Today, NLP and CC technologies are among the most active research and development areas due to the rapid advancement of the Internet as well as the worldwide proliferation of mobile devices and social media. The fields are facing many new challenges arising from intelligent applications and big data, such as business intelligence, social analytics, etc. NLPCC 2022 welcomes original technical papers on new concepts, innovative research, systems, standards, resources & evaluation, applications, and industrial case studies related to NLP & CC. Authors are invited to submit complete and unpublished papers in English or Chinese in the following categories: * Applications/tools * Empirical/data-driven approaches * Resources and evaluation * Theoretical * Survey papers Papers currently under review in other conferences or journals are acceptable; however, commitment to the conference must be made upon acceptance. Relevant topics of NLPCC 2022 include, but are not limited to, the following: * Computational Social Science and Social Media * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Ethics and NLP * Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation and Multilinguality * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluations * Semantics * Sentiment Analysis * Speech and Multimodality * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Text Summarization and Generation Submission Guidelines The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer LNAI series (EI & ISTP indexed, for English papers), and the ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis (EI and Scopus indexed, for Chinese papers), respectively. English submissions should follow the LNCS formatting instructions. The maximum paper length is 12 pages (including references and appendix). The submissions must therefore be formatted in accordance with the standard Springer style sheets ([LaTeX][Microsoft Word]). Submissions in Chinese should follow the formatting instructions of the ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis [Format Template], without exceeding eight (8) pages (including references) in A4 (210 × 297 mm) size. All submissions should be prepared in the PDF format. Manuscripts (including both English and Chinese papers) should be submitted electronically through the Softconf START conference management system https://www.softconf.com/nlpcc/Main-2022. After logging in, please click the "make a new submission" button, and select the corresponding link according to your paper's language. Email submissions will not be accepted. Authors of Chinese submissions are required to provide Chinese titles in the submission system. Important dates * Paper Submission Deadline: May 9, 2022 * Paper Notification: July 4, 2022 * Camera-ready Deadline: July 18, 2022 * Tutorials: September 22-23, 2022 * Main Conference: September 24-25, 2022 All deadlines are 23:59 PM, Beijing Time. Organization * General Chairs: Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh Ya Zhou, Guilin University of Electronic Technology * PC Chairs: Wei Lu, Singapore University of Technology and Design Shujian Huang, Nanjing University Contact If you have any questions about paper submission, please contact Program Co-Chairs via nlpcc2022-pc-chairs@googlegroups.com. For more information about the conference, please email to nlpcc@pku.edu.cn.