Linguistics 2018 - International Workshop "Computational Linguistics"

International Workshop «Computational Linguistics» (CompLing-2018) will be held in St.
Petersburg, Russia on June 1-2, 2018 as a joint event of two conferences - “Digital Transformations
& Global Society” (DTGS-2018) and “Internet and Modern Society” (IMS-2018). It will be organized
within the framework of the Information Society Technologies Week at the ITMO University and
the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg Campus).
The goal of the workshop is to discuss the actual issues of interaction of linguistics and information
technologies – regarding the development of technology solutions on the basis of a natural
language, and the influence of information technologies on the language. Target audience are
linguists of all profiles, the staff of organizations developing information systems that involve
natural language processing, specialists in knowledge representation, higher education teachers,
translators.
The key topics of the workshop are the following:
 Computer modeling of language
 Computer analysis of natural language
 Corpus linguistics
 Digital linguistic resources
 Computational and linguistic ontologies
 Information extraction
 Document analysis
 Information retrieval
 Machine translation
 Computational lexicography
 Speech technologies
 Linguistic analysis of social networks.