The CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of the Technical Committee of Natural Language Processing, China Computer Federation (CCF-NLP). 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), Dunhuang (2019) and Zhengzhou (2020). 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. NLPCC 2021 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 2021:

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 2021 for 5 persons to participate in 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 2021 for 3 persons to participate in 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 2021 for 2 persons to participate in 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 2021 for 2 persons to participate in 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 2021 for 2 persons to participate in 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 2021, Conference Websites, Communications and E-Newsletters of CCF via conference news and On-site Promotions.

2. Standard 2m× 2m booth: NLPCC 2021 will provide for innovation/technology exhibition during the main conference and workshops (October 15-17, 2021). One table & two chairs, the power and free internet access will be provided.

If you need more information, please contact Prof. Zhaochun Ren via zhaochun.ren@sdu.edu.cn or Prof. Dongyan Zhao via zhaody@pku.edu.cn.

Organizer:

◇ China Compute Federation (CCF);

Hosts:

◇ Shandong University

◇ National State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing, Founder Group

Conference General Chairs:

◇ Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne

◇ Jie Tang,Tsinghua University

Program Committee Chairs

◇ Lu Wang, University of Michigan

◇ Yansong Feng, Peking University

Organization Committee Chairs

◇ Zhumin Chen,Shandong University

◇ Pengjie Ren, Shandong University

◇ Xiaojun Wan, Peking University

Sponsorship Chairs

◇ Dongyan Zhao, Peking University

◇ Zhaochun Ren, Shandong University

China Computer Federation (CCF)

CCF Technical Committee of Natural Language Processing (CCF-NLP)

March 23, 2021