The conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of the CCF TCCI (Technical Committee of Chinese Information, China Computer Federation). NLPCC is a leading international conference specialized in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Chinese Computing (CC). It serves as a main forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences, and to promote their research and technical innovations in these fields. In addition, the CCF Advanced Discipline Lecture (ADL) conventionally runs in parallel with the conference as NLPCC tutorials, which is traditionally delivered by world renowned scientists. The primary objective is to introduce the latest NLP & CC research and technology to young researchers and students who are interested in the fields. Previous NLPCC conferences and ADLs were successfully held in Beijing (2012), Chongqing (2013) and Shenzhen (2014).

Today, NLP and CC technologies are among the most active research and development areas due to rapid advancement of the Internet as well as the worldwide proliferation of mobile devices and social media. These fields are facing many new challenges arising from intelligent applications and big data, such as business intelligence, social analytics, etc. The fourth conference of NLPCC will focus on Natural Language Analysis and Understanding in Big Data including Fundamental Research in Language Computing, Multi-Lingual Access, Web Mining/Text Mining, Machine Learning for NLP, Knowledge Graph, NLP for Social Network, Information Retrieval, Question & Answering as well as the Applications of Language Computing.

Noticeably, NLPCC 2015 keynote speakers include Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA), Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada) and Hang Li (Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei, China). And NLPCC Tutorials/ADL will be delivered by Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA), Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Jianzhong Li (Harbin Insitute of Technology, China), Hang Li (Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei, China), Xueqi Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), and Chao Liu (Sogou Inc., China).

NLPCC 2015 Conference will arrange keynotes, panel, ADL/tutorials, poster/demo, industry expo and Campus Open Day, as well as multi-track sessions of research paper reports.

NLPCC 2015 tutorials, held as CCF ADL(Advanced Disciplines Lectures) No. 59, will invite domestic and international specialists to give six lectures/tutorials in three days on Natural Language Processing in the Era of Big Data: Theory, Algorithm and Architecture.

CCF Open Funding Project Workshop and Technical Evaluation Workshop will be held with NLPCC 2015 conference.

For additional information, please visit the NLPCC 2015 Website: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2015/index.html.

◆ Organizer: China Compute Federation(CCF)

◆ Hosts:

◇ Jiangxi Normal University, China

◇ State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing, Founder Group, China

◆ Conference Venue: Treasure Palace Hotel, Nanchang, China.

◆ Schedule: Oct. 9-13, 2015

◆ Tutorials /CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL 59): October 9-11, 2015, International Center of Jiangxi Normal University, White Deer House

◆ Main Conference: October 12-13, 2015, Treasure Palace Hotel

◆ Sponsors: Microsoft Research, Sougou Inc, MingBo Digital Education, Wangfang Data, SpeechOcean, Gridsum

The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards of NLPCC 2015 (sponsored by Microsoft Research), Best Paper of Asian Languages Awards (sponsored by AFNLP) will be selected independently by the Best Paper Award Committee.

NLPCC 2015 will provide a limit number of Travel Grants and Industrial Demo Grants to the scholars and industrial participants:

1. All authors who have submitted to NLPCC 2015 are eligible to apply for the Travel Grants to attend NLPCC 2015. Priority will be given to applicants from west or middle regions of China.

2. In addition, scholars or students who have published (or have papers accepted), as first author, in the leading international conferences or journals within the last 12 months, are eligible to apply to Grants for Free Registration of NLPCC 2015.

3. All the participants attending the Industrial Expo of NLPCC 2015 are eligible to apply to the Expo Grants. The grants will provide free booth and exhibition registration to selected participant(s) who will demonstrate outstanding novel technology or product.

4. Eligible applicants are encouraged to submit their grant application forms (http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2015/pages/page08_dl.html) after completing their Early-bird registration for NLPCC 2015.

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

You can register from now on through the NLPCC 2015 Registration website. Early registrations are preferred and recommended:

Notes:

1．In order to be included in the proceedings, each accepted paper must have at least one independent Full Registration (CCF Members or Non-CCF Member Registration) and make the payment by September 10th, 2015. One full registration can cover one paper only.

2．Students, who do not intent to cover an accepted paper, can select "Student" as registrant type in the Registration website.

3．CCF member should provide your membership ID in the Registration website. No discount will apply without a valid membership ID.

4．All attendees are highly encouraged to complete the Online Registration by September 10th, 2015, to enjoy the discount of Early-bird Registration.

5．Discounts (as listed in the above table) for the Joint Registrations of NLPCC 2015 and Tutorials (ADL59) cannot be combined with other ADL discounts.

6．Eligible Travel Grant applicants should register and pay the fees by September 10th, 2015, and submit the grant application forms to NLPCC@pku.edu.cn, which can be downloaded from the website:(http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2015/pages/page08_dl.html).

You need to choose one of the following ways to pay the registration fee:

1．You are encouraged to make your payment online in the NLPCC 2015 Registration website(http://59.108.48.38/nlpcc2015/index.php). VISA, Master and JCB cards as well as Yinlian bank cards/credit cards, are accepted.

2．You can also make your payment by bank transfer (RMB Only). Here is bank information:

      ◇ Account Name/Bank Holder Name: Nanchang Hengtian Conference and Exhibition Service Company (南昌恒天会务会展服务有限公司)

      ◇ Account Number: 1962 1436 2434

      ◇ Bank Name: (Nanhu Branch, Nanchang, Bank of China) 中国银行南昌市南湖支行

      ◇ The transfer should be noted as following: attendee name + NLPCC2015

3．On-site registration and payment will have no discount.

NLPCC 2015 will provide Demo Booths for Industry and Technology Demo. Innovation Demonstrations including applications and technical demos are warmly welcomed.

Registration of Industry and Technology Demo can be applied by email to ZHAO Dongyan: zhaody@pku.edu.cn. The registration fee is USD 1000 (or RMB 5000) per Demo Booth. The following information should be included in the Registration email: Name of Contact, Company Name, Company Address, Postcode, Invoice Title, Invoice Content, and Mobile/Phone Number.

The registration fee should be paid by bank transfer. The bank information is the same as above, and the transfer should be noted as: company name + NLPCC2015.

NLPCC 2015 (and Tutorials/ADL 59) Registration: JIA Aixia jiaaixia@pku.edu.cn .

Industrial Demo Registration: ZHAO Dongyan zhaody@pku.edu.cn .

Others: nlpcc@pku.edu.cn .

More information will be provided on the conference website.

China Computer Federation (CCF)

CCF Technical Committee of Chinese Information (TCCI)

August 16, 2015