The CCF International conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of 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 ideas, research results and experiences, to promote research and technical innovations in the fields. Previous NLPCC conferences were successfully held in Beijing (2012), Chongqing (2013), Shenzhen (2014), Nanchang (2015), Kunming (2016), and Dalian (2017).

Today, NLP and Chinese Computing 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 arising from big data and intelligent applications, such as business intelligence, text analytics, etc. The Seventh Conference of NLPCC will focus on Natural Language Analysis and Understanding in Big Data including Fundamental Research in Language Computing, Multilingual Access, Web Mining/Text Mining, Machine Learning for NLP, Knowledge Graph, Information Extraction, Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Chatbot, NLP for Social Networks, as well as the Applications of Language Computing.

China Computer Federation is pleased to announce that the Seventh CCF International conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2018) will take place in Hohhot, China, from August 26 to 30, 2018.

NLPCC 2018 will feature keynote speakers Prof. Charles Ling (Tenured Full and Science Distinguished Research Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada), Joyce Chai (Professor, Michigan State University, USA), Dr. Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Assistant Professor, Cornell University, USA), and Dr. Luo Si (Chief Scientist of NLP with Alibaba DAMO Institute Machine Intelligence Technologies, China). NLPCC 2018 Tutorials/CCF ADL 92 will be delivered by Dr. Tie-Yan Liu (assistant managing director, Microsoft Research Asia), Dr. Xipeng Qiu (associate professor, Fudan University), Prof. Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal), Dr. Yue Zhang (assistant professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design), Dr. Yiqun Liu (tenured associated professor, Tsinghua University) and Dr. Jie Bao (the Co-founder and CEO at Memect).

NLPCC 2018 Conference has arranged keynotes, tutorials/ADL, multi-track sessions of research paper reports, technical workshops, student workshop, shared task workshop, poster/demo, and industry expo.

NLPCC 2018 tutorials, held as CCF ADL 92 (Advanced Disciplines Lectures), will feature domestic and international specialists to give six lectures/tutorials in three days on Natural Language Understanding with Novel Learning and Knowledge.

Technical Workshops, Student Workshop, Shared Task Workshop will be held with NLPCC 2018 conference.

For additional information, please visit the NLPCC 2018 Website: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2018/index.php.

◆ Organizer: China Computer Federation (CCF)

◆ Hosts:

◇ Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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

◆ Conference Venue: Inner Mongolia Xincheng Hotel, Hohhot, China(中国，呼和浩特市，内蒙古新城宾馆).

◆ Schedule: August 26~30, 2018

◇ Tutorials /CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL 92): August 26~28, 2018, Room 8, Academic Conference Center, Inner Mongolia University（内蒙古大学学术会议中心8号会议室）

◇ Workshops: August 28~30, 2018, Inner Mongolia Xincheng Hotel, Hohhot, China(中国，呼和浩特市，内蒙古新城宾馆)

◇ Main Conference: August 29~30, 2018, Inner Mongolia Xincheng Hotel, Hohhot, China(中国，呼和浩特市，内蒙古新城宾馆)

The Best Paper Award (sponsored by Microsoft Research) and Best Student Paper Award (sponsored by AFNLP), as well as Distinguish Paper Awards (sponsored by Springer) of NLPCC 2018 will be selected independently by the Best Paper Award Committee.

NLPCC 2018 will provide a limited number of Travel Grants and Industrial Demo Grants to scholars and industrial participants:

◆ All authors who have submitted to NLPCC 2018 are eligible to apply for the Travel Grants to attend NLPCC 2018. Priority will be given to applicants from west or middle regions of China as well as the students all over the world.

◆ 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 2018.

◆ Eligible applicants are encouraged to submit their grant application forms (http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2018/info.php) after completing their early-bird registration for NLPCC 2018.

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

You can register from now on through the NLPCC 2018 registration website (http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/nlpcc/2018/index.php). Early registrations are preferred and recommended:

Notes:

1. CCF Member, indicates the members of China Computer Federation (CCF).

2. In order to be included in the proceedings, each accepted paper must have at least one independent Full Registration (CCF Member or Non-CCF Member Registration) and make the payment before June 30, 2018. 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 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 and make payment before July 27, 2018, to enjoy the discount of Early-bird Registration.

6. Discounts (as listed in the above table) for the Joint Registrations of NLPCC 2018 and Tutorials (ADL 92) cannot be combined with other ADL discounts.

7. Eligible Travel Grant applicants should register and pay the fees by July 27, 2018, and submit the grant application forms to nlpcc@pku.edu.cn, which can be downloaded from the website:http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2018/info.php.

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 2018 registration website. 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 NLPCC2018.

3. On-site registration and payment (no cash accepted, no discount, and invoice will be provided after the conference only).

NLPCC 2018 (and Tutorials/ADL 92) Registration: JIA Aixia jiaaixia@pku.edu.cn, telephone: 01082529251

Industrial Demo Registration: ZHAO Dongyan zhaody@pku.edu.cn, telephone: 01082529252

Others: nlpcc@pku.edu.cn

More information will be provided on the conference website.

The following is NLPCC 2018 local hosts and sponsors. Thanks for their organization work and financial support. They are significant for NLPCC 2018.