COLING 2010 - COLING 2010 The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)

COLING 2010
The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
1st Call for Papers (PDF file download)
August 23 - 27, 2010
Beijing, China
http://www.coling-2010.org

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) . We 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. We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics.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 of interest:
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