YCCL 2012 - The 6th Youth Conference of Computational Linguistics (YCCL 2012)

Youth Conference of Computational Linguistics (YCCL) is a serious of conferences held by Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS) of China every two years. These conferences are organized by students themselves, and includes communication between students and professors.
YCCL is free for students of Computational Linguistics and other associated fields.
YCCL 2012 is the 6th Youth Conference of Computational Linguistics. The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include disciplines such as psycholinguistics, speech, information retrieval, multimodal language processing. The conference welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application-orientated papers as well as papers targeting emerging domains such as bioinformatics and social media. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval
Language Resources
Lexical Semantics
Lexicon and ontology development
Machine Translation
Multilinguality
Multimodal representations and processing
Social Media
Natural Language Processing Applications
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Spoken Language Processing
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Summarization and Generation
Syntax and Parsing
Text Classification
Text Mining
User Studies and Evaluation Methods
Important Dates
paper submission deadline: August 25, 2012

Acceptance notification: September 20, 2012
Conference meeting: November 17-18, 2012
All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT −11 hours)
Submission Information
Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. All submissions must be submitted electronically as PDF and must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. Please use the official ACL 2012 style files for the paper.
As reviewing will be blind, the submission should not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
Submission is electronic using paper submission software at:
https://www.softconf.com/c/yccl2012/
Committees:
Program Co-Chairs:
Yang Liu Tsinghua University
Xuezhe Ma Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Area Chairs:
Deyi Xiong Institute for Infocomm Research
Haitao Mi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qi Zhang Fudan University
Ruifeng Xu Harbin Institute of Technology
Shoushan Li Soochow University
Shiqi Zhao Baidu Inc.
Wenliang Chen Institute for Infocomm Research
Weiwei Sun Peking University
Wangxiang Che Harbin Institute of Technology
Xiaojun Wan Peking University
Xu Sun University of Tokyo
Yan Song City University of Hong Kong
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Xuezhe Ma Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shaohua Yang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Local Arrangements Committee
Xiaolin Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xiaotian Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peilu Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qiongkai Xu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yangyang Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University