Deadline: 23:59, June 15, 2013 (Beijing Time)

Open for New Submissions

NLP&CC (CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing) is the annual conference of CCF TCCI (Technical Committee of Chinese Information). As a leading conference on the field of NLP & Chinese Computing of CCF, NLP&CC is the premier forum for the NLP researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government in China and Pacific Asia area to share their ideas, research results and experiences, which will highly promote the research and technical innovation in these fields domestically and internationally.

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 the last decade. As a consequence, new developments are expected to support Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing technologies based on Deep Learning, Deep Mining and Intelligent Applications, especially for big data issues.

The 2nd CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing & Chinese Computing (NLP&CC 2013) will organize a series of activities dedicated to the advanced NLP and Chinese Computing technologies systems and applications, focusing on Data Intelligence, Knowledge Intelligence & Social Intelligence, including Web Mining & Big Data, Multi-Lingual Access, Machine Learning for NLP, Knowledge Acquisition Social Networks, Search & Ads, Question Answering as well as the Fundamentals and Applications on Language Computing. Especially, NLP&CC 2013 honorably invited Dr. Wei-Ying Ma, Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia, and Dr. Xiaojin Zhu, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to deliver the keynote speeches.

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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal.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 2013 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, OCR & Fonts Computing 数字出版、文档工程、文字识别、字形计算等

◇ NLP App for Mobile Computing 移动应用

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

◆ Machine Learning for NLP 机器学习与自然语言处理

◆ Web Mining & Big Data (Web 挖掘与大数据处理)

◇ Information Extraction 信息抽取

◇ NLP Parallel Processing 并行处理方法

◇ Visualization 可视化

◆ Knowledge Acquisition 知识获取

◇ Linguistic Data Mining 语义数据挖掘

◇ Ontology 本体

◇ Semantic Web & Knowledge Base 语义网与知识库

◆ 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

◆ Question Answering & User Interaction 问答系统与人机交互

In addition to technical contributions, NLP&CC 2013 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, technical evaluations, and industry presentations. For workshops, NLP&CC 2013 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication.

All papers accepted by NLP&CC 2013 workshops will be published in a combined volume of the NLP&CC 2013 Proceedings.

Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to zhaody@pku.edu.cn.

Best Paper Awards and Best Student Awards of NLP&CC 2013, sponsored by Microsoft Research Asia, will be selected by the Program Committee in two-round double-blinded review and vote.

NLP&CC 2013 will provide travel grants and industrial demo grants to the scholars and industrial participants:

The first author of the paper which submitted to NLP&CC, especially employed or studying in west or middle regions of China, can apply to the Travel Grants to attend NLP&CC 2013.

In addition, the first authors who published papers in (or accepted by) the leading international conferences or journals within 12 months (according to the submission or registration time), can apply to grants for free registration of NLP&CC 2013.

All the participants which attended the Industrial Expo of NLP&CC 2013 have the chance to apply to the Expo Grants. The grants will provide free booth and exhibition registration to the selected participant(s) who demos outstanding novel technology or product.

Eligible applicants are encouraged to submit their grant application forms (http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2013/pages/page10_dl.html) after finishing their Early-bird registration for NLP&CC 2013.

Contacts:nlpcc@pku.edu.cn or zhaody@pku.edu.cn.

◆ Paper Sumbission Due：23:59, June 15, 2013 (Beijing Time)

◆ Notification: August 15, 2013

◆ 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 Proceedings of NLPCC 2013 in Springer CCIS series and the 《ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis》. In addition, selected Poster/Demo papers will be published as short papers in the Proceedings of NLPCC 2013, Springer CCIS series. The best English papers will be recommended for publication in 《Journal of Computer Science and Technology》 after necessary extension. All papers accepted by NLP&CC 2013 workshops will be published in a combined volume of the NLP&CC 2013 Proceeding series.

◆ 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. All submissions in Chinese should follow the formatting instructions of the 《ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis》(http://xbna.pku.edu.cn/cn/contr.xbna), without exceeding eight (8) pages in A4 (210 × 297 mm) size. English submissions should follow the LNCS formatting instructions (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), without exceeding twelve (12) pages. We strongly recommend the use of LNCS LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word templates available on the LNCS websites. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the submission website (https://www.softconf.com/e/nlpcc2013/). Email submissions will not be considered.

◇ Authors of Chinese submissions are required to provide Chinese titles in the submission system.

◇ All student first authors are encouraged to contact nlpcc@pku.edu.cn, indicating their names, affiliations, and the titles of their submissions.

◆ Double-Blind Reviewing :

Anonymity Requirements for Double-Blind Reviewing:

Every research paper submitted to NLP&CC 2013 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: Chongqing University, State Key Lab of Digital Publishing Technology

◆ Address: Junhao Hotel, Chongqing, China.

◆ Time: Nov. 15 - Nov. 19, 2013

◇ Nov. 15 - 17, ADL/Tutorials，Chongqing University

◇ Nov. 18 - 19, Conference, Junhao Hotel

◆ Tracks & Workshops: All the papers include both Research and Industry & Demo tracks. Evaluations & Open Funding 2012 will be reported in workshops or special sessions on the conference.

Conference Website:http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2013/index.html

 

Download: 《NLP&CC 2013 Grants Application Form》

 

 

Program Co-Chairs: ZHOU Guodong (Soochow University), LI Juanzi (Tsinghua University)

General Co-Chairs: ZHOU Ming (MSRA), YANG Dan (Chongqing University)

 

China Computer Federation (CCF)

CCF Technical Committee of Chinese Information (TCCI)

June 7, 2013