CLIC-it 2014 - First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
9-10 December 2014, Pisa, Italy
http://clic.humnet.unipi.it
Co-located with Evalita 2014 (http://www.evalita.org ) and AI*IA 2014
(http://aiia2014.di.unipi.it)
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 25 JULY 2014 **
NEW: INVITED SPEAKERS
Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University)
John Nerbonne (University of Groningen)
CLIC-it, Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, is a new event aiming
to establish a reference forum for research on Computational Linguistics of the
Italian community. CLIC-it covers all aspects of automatic language
understanding, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-art theoretical
results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application
perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field.
The spirit of the Conference is inclusive. In the conviction that the
complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLIC-it
intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as
Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning,
Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval and Digital
Humanities. CLIC-it is open to contributions on all languages, with a
particular emphasis on Italian.
The first edition of CLIC-it, CLIC-it 2014, will be held in Pisa onDecember
9-10 2014, and it will be co-located with EVALITA-2014
(http://www.evalita.org), the fourth edition of the evaluation campaign of
Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian. CLIC-it will provide
additional opportunities to discuss research aspects related with EVALITA, as
well as new tasks and new evaluation methodologies.
CLIC-it 2014 CO-CHAIRS
Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento)
CLIC-it 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference invites the submission of papers on research in all aspects of
automated language processing. Relevant topics for the conference include, but
are not limited to, the following thematic areas (in alphabetical order):
Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics
Area chairs: Marco Baroni (University of Trento) and Vito Pirrelli (ILC-CNR,
Pisa)
Topics: Models of human language acquisition, incremental parsing, Multimodal
acquisition of linguistic knowledge, Grounded Learning, Applications of
cognitive models of language, e.g., in tutoring systems, human evaluation,
clinical and cognitive neuroscience settings.
Digital Humanities
Area chairs: Sara Tonelli (FBK, Trento) and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University
of Rome Tor Vergata)
Topics: Text Readability, Language Complexity, Historical Content Analysis, NLP
for Literature, NLP and Digital Libraries, Linguistics and Social Media
Analysis.
Information Extraction
Area chairs: Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome Tor Vergata) and Paola
Velardi (University of Rome Sapienza)
Topics: Information Extraction, Question Answering, Semantic Web applications,
NLP for the Web and social media, Summarization.
Information Retrieval
Area Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
Topics: Spoken and written Document Retrieval, Opinion Mining and Sentiment
Analysis, Text Classification.
Linguistic Resources
Area chairs: Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) and Monica Monachini
(ILC-CNR, Pisa)
Topics: Corpora, Annotation schema, Lexical resources for Italian, Standard for
Resources, Ontologies, Linguistic aspects of Computational Linguistics,
Crowdsourcing, Evaluation methods.
Machine Translation
Area chair: Marcello Federico (FBK, Trento)
Topics: Cross-Language Processing, Text and Speech Translation, Computer Aided
Translation, Bilingual Dictionaries, Parallel and Comparable Corpora,
Crowd-sourcing methods for Machine Translation.
Pragmatics and Creativity
Area chairs: Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venezia) and Malvina Nissim
(University of Bologna)
Topics: Anaphora, Metaphor, Discourse, Emotions in language, Language
Creativity.
Semantics and Knowledge Acquisition
Area chairs: Gianni Semeraro (University of Bari) and Alessandro Moschitti
(University of Trento)
Topics: Word Sense Disambiguation, Entity Recognition and Linking, Relation
Extraction, Semantic Role Labeling, Semantic Similarity, Textual Entailment,
Ontology Population, Formal Semantics, Distributional Semantics, Automatic
construction/alignment of Resources, Ontology Learning.
Spoken Language Processing
Area chairs: Franco Cutugno (University of Napoli Federico II) and Cinzia
Avesani (ISTC-CNR, Padova)
Topics: Automatic Speech Recognition, Text to Speech Synthesis, Phonology,
Prosody, Dialogue Systems, Interactive Systems.
Syntax and Parsing
Area chairs: Giuseppe Attardi (University of Pisa) and Alessandro Mazzei
(University of Torino)
Topics: Morphological Analysis, Parsing, POS tagging, Pipelines for Italian,
Standard for Interoperability.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
CLIC-it 2014 has the goal of a broad technical program. We invite original
papers (i.e. previously unpublished) in the following four broad categories:
theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches,
resources/evaluation, applications/tools. We also invite papers describing a
challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers, and papers that
describe a negative result.
Papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional
pages of references. Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the
abstract both in English and Italian. Accepted papers will be published on-line
and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. The
deadline for paper submissions is July 15, 2014(extended to July 25).
Paper submissions should follow the two-column format. We strongly recommend
the use of LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to the ACL
format, which are available on the conference website under “Submissions”.
Submission must be electronic in PDF, using the Easychair submission software
athttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clic2014
Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information
from manuscripts.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be
published online.
YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARDS
One best paper award for each of the ten CLIC-it thematic areas will be given
to young authors (PhD students and Postdocs) who appear as first author of the
paper. Best papers will be presented orally at the conference and will be given
the possibility to submit an extended version to be published on a Journal.
CONFERENCE VENUE
Pisa, Italy, University & CNR
IMPORTANT DATES
31/1/2014: First call for papers
15/7/2014: Deadline for paper submission (extended to July 25)
22/9/2014: Notification to authors
15/10/2014: Camera ready version of the accepted papers
9-10/12/2014: CLIC-it Conference
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