Natural language processing and Chinese information technologies become one of the most popular research and development field due to the innovations and application on Internet as well as mobile devices in last decade. As a consequence, new developments are expected to support natural language processing and Chinese computing technologies based on open domain, multi-lingual and/or large-scale content processing.

The 1st CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLP&CC 2012) will organize a series of activities dedicated to the advanced NLP and Chinese Computing technologies systems and applications, focusing on Web Innovation and Applications, including Web Mining, Search & Ads, Social Networks, Multi-Lingual Access, Question Answering as well as the Fundamentals and Applications on Chinese Computing.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Both academic researches and industrial contributions are solicited.

NLP&CC 2012 include but not limited to the following areas:

◆ Fundamentals on Language Computing 自然语言处理基础

◇ Word segmentation & Named Entity Recognition 分词、命名实体识别

◇ Syntactic Parsing, Semantic Analysis, Discourse Analysis 句法分析、语义分析、篇章分析

◇ NLP on minority languages 少数民族文自然语言处理

◆ Applications on Language Computing 自然语言应用技术

◇ NLP Applications such as IME, Language Learning, etc. 自然语言处理应用，如输入法、语言学习等

◇ Digital Publishing, Document Engineering & Fonts Computing 数字出版、文档工程、字形计算等

◆ Web Mining Web 挖掘

◇ Information Extraction 信息抽取

◇ Linguistic Data Mining 语义数据挖掘

◇ Ontology 本体

◇ Knowledge Acquisition 知识获取

◆ NLP for Search & Ads 搜索与广告的自然语言处理

◇ Query & Document Understanding 查询与文档理解

◇ Ranking 排序

◇ Personalization, Recommendation 个性化，推荐技术

◇ Log Analysis 日志分析

◆ NLP for Social Networks 社会网络的自然语言处理

◇ Relation Extraction 关系抽取

◇ Topic Detection & Tracking 话题检测与跟踪

◇ Emotion & Opinion Mining 情感分析

◆ Machine Translation & Multi-Lingual Information Access 机器翻译和多语言信息获取

◆ Question Answering 问答系统

In addition to technical contributions, NLP&CC 2012 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, technical evaluation, and industry presentations. For workshops, NLP&CC 2012 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by NLP&CC 2012 workshops will be published in a combined volume of the NLP&CC 2012 Proceeding. Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to zhaody@pku.edu.cn.

◆ Abstract Submission Due：23:59, May 20, 2012 (Beijing Time)

◆ Paper Sumbission Due：23:59, May 31, 2012 (Beijing Time)

◆ Notification: July, 31, 2012

◆ Both Chinese and English submissions are welcome. Chinese Submission should include English titles and abstracts.

All the full research papers will be published in the 《ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis》 and the Proceedings of NLP&CC 2012 electronically. All papers accepted by NLP&CC 2012 workshops will be published in a combined volume of the NLP&CC 2012 Proceeding series, with best Chinese papers to be recommended for publication in 《Journal of Computer》 and 《Journal of Computer Research and Development 》, and best English papers to be recommended for publication in 《journal of computer science and technology》.

◆ Submission:

◇ Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Each submission should include: titles (in both Chinese and English), abstracts (in both Chinese and English), keywords, main body and references.

◇ Both Chinese and English submissions are welcome. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in WORD format, and formatted using the 《ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis》camera-ready templates. The maximum paper length is 8 pages and paper size is A4 (210 × 297 mm). Manuscripts should be submitted by submission website (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NLP2012). Email submission is not supported.

◆ Double-Blind Reviewing:

Anonymity Requirements for Double-Blind Reviewing:

Every research paper submitted to NLP&CC 2012 will undergo a "double-blind" reviewing process: the PC members and referees who review the paper will not know the identity of the authors. To ensure anonymity of authorship, authors must prepare their manuscript as follows:

1. Authors' names and affiliations must not appear on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.

2. Funding sources must not be acknowledged on the title page or elsewhere in the paper.

3. Research group members, or other colleagues or collaborators, must not be acknowledged anywhere in the paper.

4. The paper's file name must not identify the authors of the paper. It is strongly suggested that the submitted file be named with the assigned submission number.

5. You must also use care in referring to related past work, particularly your own, in the paper. For example, if you are Jane Smith, the following text gives away the authorship of the submitted paper:

In our previous work[1,2], we presented two algorithms for ... In this paper, we build on that work by ..."

Bibliography

[1] Jane Smith, "A Simple Algorithm for ...," Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 1997, pp. 1-10.

[2] Jane Smith, "A More Complicated Algorithm for ...," Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 1998,pp.34-44.

The solution is to reference your past work in the third person (just as you would any other piece of work that is related to the submitted paper). This allows you to set the context for the submitted paper, while at the same time preserving anonymity:

In previous work[1,2], algorithms were presented for ... In this paper, we build on that work by ...

Bibliography

[1] Jane Smith, "A Simple Algorithm for ...," Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 1997,pp.1-10.

[2] Jane Smith, "A More Complicated Algorithm for ...," Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 1998,pp.34-44.

It is the responsibility of authors to do their very best to preserve anonymity. Papers that do not follow the guidelines here, or otherwise potentially reveal the identity of the authors, are subject to immediate rejection.

◆ Organizer: China Compute Federation

◆ Hosts: Peking University, Microsoft Research Asia(MSRA)

◆ Address: Fragrant Hill Hotel, Beijing, China.

◆ Time：Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 2012

◇ Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, ADL/Tutorials, MSRA

◇ Nov. 2, Evaluation workshop, MSRA

◇ Nov. 3, Workshops（TBD）

◇ Nov.4-5, Conference, Fragrant Hill Hotel

◆ Tracks & Workshops: All the papers include both Research and Industry & Demo tracks. Evaluation & Open Funding 2011 will be reported in workshops or special sessions on the conference.