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 the fields. Previous NLPCC conferences were successfully held in Beijing (2012), Chongqing (2013), Shenzhen (2014), Nanchang (2015).

China Computer Federation and the Chinese Language Computer Society (CLCS) are pleased to announce that their joint meeting will take place in Kunming, China from December 2nd to 6th, 2016.

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. The fields are facing many new challenges arisen from intelligent applications and big data, such as business intelligence, social analytics, etc. NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 will focus on Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications including Fundamental Research in Language Computing, Multi-Lingual Access, NLP Data Science/Text Mining, Machine Learning for NLP, Knowledge Graph/IE/QA, NLP for social network, Information Retrieval, Conversational Bot/Summarization/Discourse as well as the Applications of Language Computing.

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 will feature keynote speakers Bin Yu (Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA), Jacob Devlin (Senior Research Scientist, MSR, USA), Haizhou Li (IEEE Fellow, Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Huan Liu (Professor, Arizona State University, USA). NLPCC-ICCPOL Tutorials/ADL 74 will be delivered by Guodong Zhou (Professor, Soochow University), Zhengdong Lu (Senior Researcher, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei), Jacob Devlin (Principal NLP Scientist, Microsoft Research), Dekang Lin (ACL Fellow, co-founder and co-CEO of naturali.io.) and Huan Liu (Professor, Arizona State University). In addition, a Panel whose title is “Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence:Challenges and Opportunities”, will be organized during ADL 74.

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Conference has arranged keynotes, panels, ADL/tutorials, poster/demo, industry expo and Campus Open Day, as well as multi-track sessions of research paper reports.

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 tutorials, held as CCF ADL(Advanced Disciplines Lectures) No. 74, will feature domestic and international specialists to give five lectures/tutorials and one panel in three days on Natural Language Processing in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Foundation, Challenges and Opportunity.

Student Workshop, CCF Open Funding Project Workshop and Technical Evaluation Workshop will be held with NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 conference.

For additional information, please visit the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Website: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2016/index.html.

◆ Organizer: China Compute Federation(CCF)

◆ Hosts:

◇ University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

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

◆ Conference Venue: Kunming Yunan Conference Resort, Kunming, China.

◆ Schedule: Dec. 2-6, 2016

◇ Tutorials /CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL 74): Dec. 2-4, 2016, Kunming Yunan Conference Resort

◇ Main Conference: Dec. 5-6, 2016, Kunming Yunan Conference Resort

◆ Sponsors:

◇ Platinum Sponsors: Microsoft Research, DeepShare, Baidu, GridSum, Sougou Inc.

◇ Golden Sponsors: RSVPTech, YaTrans.

The Best Paper (sponsored by Microsoft Research) and Best Student Paper Awards (sponsored by AFNLP) of NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016, will be selected independently by the Best Paper Award Committee.

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 will provide a limited number of Travel Grants and Industrial Demo Grants to the scholars and industrial participants:

1. All authors who have submitted to NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 are eligible to apply for the Travel Grants to attend NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016. 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-ICCPOL 2016.

3. All the participants attending the Industrial Expo of NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 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/2016/pages/page08_dl.html) after completing their Early-bird registration for NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016.

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

You can register from now on through the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Registration website. Early registrations are preferred and recommended:

Notes:

1. CCF Member, means members of China Computer Federation (CCF); CLCS Member, members of Chinese Language Computer Society.

2. In order to be included in the proceedings, each accepted paper must have at least one independent Full Registration (CCF/CLCS Members or Non-CCF/CLCS Member Registration) and make the payment before October 20, 2016. One full registration can cover one paper only.

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

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

5. All attendees are highly encouraged to complete the Online Registration before November 10, 2016, to enjoy the discount of Early-bird Registration.

6. Discounts (as listed in the above table) for the Joint Registrations of NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 and Tutorials (ADL 74) cannot be combined with other ADL discounts.

7．Eligible Travel Grant applicants should register and pay the fees by November 10, 2016, and submit the grant application forms to NLPCC@pku.edu.cn, which can be downloaded from the website:(http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2016/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-ICCPOL 2016 Registration website (http://59.108.48.38/nlpcc2016/index.php). VISA, Master and JCB cards as well as UnionPay 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: 中国计算机学会(China Computer Federation)

      ◇ Account Number: 0109 0519 5001 2010 9702 028

      ◇ Bank Name: 北京银行北京大学支行(Peking University Branch, Beijing Bank)

      ◇ The transfer should be noted as following: attendee name + NLPCC2016

3．On-site registration and payment (have no discount, and maybe can not get the invoice on-site).

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 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 + NLPCC2016.

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 (and Tutorials/ADL 74) 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)

NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Organization Committee

October 10, 2016

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