CFP: 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)

The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)
August 23 - 27, 2010, Beijing, China

COLING 2010, the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is being organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) and will be held in Beijing, China on August 23-27th, 2010 under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) . They look forward to welcoming you to Beijing, the cultural, educational, and political capital of China, and the proud host of the 2008 Olympics.

COLING will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. They invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. More details will be available closer to the April 19, 2010 submission deadline.

Important Dates:

• Apr 19, 2010 Full paper submissions due (Main conference)
• May 28, 2010 Acceptance notification of main conference
• May 30, 2010 Submission deadline for workshop papers
• Jun 30, 2010 Acceptance notification of workshop papers
• Jul 2, 2010 Camera-ready full papers due (Main conference)
• Jul 10, 2010 Camera-ready full papers due (Workshops)
• Aug 21-22, 2010 Pre-COLING(Collocating conferences/workshops)
• Aug 23-27, 2010 COLING 2010 Main Conference
• Aug 28, 2010 Post-COLING (one-day workshops)

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Syntax, semantics, grammar, and the lexicon
• Lexical semantics and ontologies
• Phonology/morphology, word segmentation, and tagging
• Summarization
• Language generation
• Paraphrasing and textual entailment
• Parsing and chunking
• Spoken language processing, understanding and speech-to-speech translation
• Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language
• Computational pragmatics
• Dialogue and conversational agents
• Computational models of discourse
• Information retrieval
• Question answering
• Word sense disambiguation
• Information extraction and text mining
• Semantic role labeling
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Corpus-based modeling of language
• Machine translation and translation aids
• Multilingual processing
• Multimodal systems and representations
• Statistical and machine learning methods
• Applications
• Corpus development and language resources
• Evaluation methods and user studies