The CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of the Technical Committee of Chinese Information, China Computer Federation (CCF TCCI). 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), Kunming (2016), Dalian (2017), Hohhot (2018), and Dunhuang (2019). Today, NLP and CC technologies are among the most active research and development areas due to the 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 intelligent applications and big data, such as business intelligence, social analytics, etc. The Ninth Conference of NLPCC will focus on Natural Language Analysis and Understanding in Multimodal Data and Artificial Intelligence Applications including Fundamental Research in Language Computing, Dialogue and Interactive Systems, Machine Learning for NLP, Machine Translation and Multilinguality, Multimodal Language Processing, NLP for Social Media, Information Extraction & Knowledge Graph, Information Retrieval & Text Mining, Question Answering, Summarization and Generation, as well as the Applications of Language Computing.

There are multiple options for the sponsors of NLPCC 2020:

Primary Sponsor: ￥100,000 RMB or 15,000 USD (Only one position for bidding)

◇ Top priority and free choice of Conference Speech(20 minutes), or Technical Workshop;

◇ Full registration of NLPCC 2020 for 5 persons to participate the conference;

◇ Standard Exhibition Booth (2m * 2m) for innovation and technical expo;

◇ Standard Sponsors Promotion Package (Refer to the notes below). ;

◇ Especially, the brand and info of Primary Sponsor will be on the primary position in all the promotions.

Diamond Sponsor: ￥60,000 RMB or 10,000 USD.

◇ Provide 15 minutes of Conference Speech (limited positions), or Technical Workshop, or Titling the NLPCC Official Activities/Social Events, e.g. Banquet, Receptions, etc.;

◇ Full registration of NLPCC 2020 for 3 persons to participate the conference;

◇ Standard Exhibition Booth (2m * 2m) for innovation and technical expo;

◇ Standard Sponsors Promotion Package (Refer to the notes below). ;

Platinum Sponsor: ￥30,000 RMB or 5,000 USD.

◇ Full registration of NLPCC 2020 for 2 persons to participate the conference;

◇ Options to organize Special Activities/Social Events in NLPCC, or speech in Selected Workshop or Logo in souvenirs. Limited sponsors ONLY.

◇ Standard Exhibition Booth (2m * 2m) for innovation and technical expo;

◇ Standard Sponsors Promotion Package (Refer to the notes below).;

Golden Sponsors: 20,000 RMB or 3,000 USD.

◇ Full registration of NLPCC 2020 for 2 persons to participate the conference;;

◇ Standard Exhibition Booth (2m * 2m) for innovation and technical expo;;

◇ Standard Sponsors Promotion Package (Refer to the following notes).;

Silver Sponsors: 10,000 RMB or 1,500 USD.

◇ Full registration of NLPCC 2020 for 2 persons to participate the conference;

◇ Standard Sponsors Promotion Package (Refer to the following notes).;

Notes: 1. Standard Sponsors Promotion Package including: Brand Promotions of the Proceedings of NLPCC 2020, Conference Websites, Communications and E-Newsletters of CCF via conference news and On-site Promotions.

Standard 2m× 2m booth: NLPCC 2020 will provide for innovation/technology exhibition during the main conference and workshops (October 16-18, 2020). One table & two chairs, the power and free internet access will be provided.

Detail information of Industrial Participations may contact with zhaody@pku.edu.cn or derekfw@umac.mo.

Organizer:

◇ China Compute Federation (CCF);

Supported by:

◇ Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP);

Hosts:

◇ Zhengzhou University

◇ National State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing, Founder Group

Conference General Chairs:

◇ Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

◇ Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University

Program Committee Chairs

◇ Xiaodan Zhu, Queen's University, Canada

◇ Min Zhang, Tsinghua University

Organization Committee Chairs

◇ Hongying Zan, Zhengzhou University

◇ Xiaojun Wan, Peking University

◇ Zhumin Chen, Shandong University

Sponsorship Chairs

◇ Dongyan Zhao, Peking University

◇ Derek F. Wong, University of Macau

China Computer Federation (CCF)

CCF Technical Committee of Chinese Information (TCCI)

March 15, 2020