[Mt-list] COLING 2020 Call for Papers

[Ghazaleh Kazeminejad]

COLING’2020 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (MAIN CONFERENCE)

The 28 th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from 13 to 18 September 2020. We invite
the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all
aspects of computational linguistics.

The first COLING was held in New York in 1965, with the last iteration in
Santa Fe, USA, in 2018. Throughout its history, COLING has brought together
researchers from across the field of Computational Linguistics. COLING’2020
continues this tradition and thus welcomes papers on all topics related to
both natural language and computation, with the expectation that all papers
will include linguistic insight.
IMPORTANT DATES:

   - 8 April 2020 (Wednesday): Final submissions due
   - 10 June 2020 (Wednesday): Notifications
   - 30 June 2020 (Tuesday): Camera-ready (PDF) due
   - 13-14 September 2020 (Sunday - Monday): Tutorials & Workshops
   Pre-Conference
   - 15-18 September 2020 (Tuesday - Friday): Main Conference

Note: All deadlines are: 11:59 PM UTC-12:00.
SUBMISSIONS:

COLING’2020 invites the submission of long and short papers on original and
unpublished research covering all aspects of natural language and
computation. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not
limited to, the following (in alphabetical order):

   - Applications (including BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes,
   NLP for Social Media and Journalism, among others)
   - Dialogue and Interactive Systems
   - Discourse and Pragmatics
   - Document classification, topic modelling, information retrieval and
   crosslingual retrieval
   - Language Generation
   - Language Modelling
   - Information Extraction and Text Mining, and Knowledge Graph
   - Language Resources and Evaluation
   - CL/NLP and Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and
   Psycholinguistics
   - Machine Learning for CL/NLP
   - Multilingual processing, Machine Translation and translation aids
   - Morphology and Word Segmentation
   - Semantics (of words, sentences, ontologies and lexical semantics)
   - Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
   - Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding
   - Summarization and Simplification
   - Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
   - Textual Inference and Question Answering
   - Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition

Papers in all these areas describing NLP engineering experiments or
computationally-aided linguistic analysis as well as survey papers are
welcome. In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include a detailed
description of the methodology, the analysis of the contribution of the
proposal and in technologically-oriented papers, we encourage in-depth
error analysis linked to linguistic information.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, plus bibliography
for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers.
The COLING’2020 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and
also Microsoft Word format. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF
format. Deviations from the provided templates will result in rejections
without review. Submit papers by the end of the deadline day (timezone is
UTC-12) via our Softconf Submission Site:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/papers/

Download the MS Word and LaTeX templates here:
https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip
AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. If the paper is available as
a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the
paper itself. In addition, COLING’2020 will follow the same policy

as
ACL'2018 establishing an anonymity period (from submission to author
notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not
allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not
rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite
published versions of papers instead of preprint version when possible.

Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at
the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted
for publication at COLING, it must be immediately withdrawn from other
venues. If a paper under review at COLING is accepted elsewhere and authors
intend to proceed there, the COLING committee must be notified immediately.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

   - Núria Bel, IULA Institute of Applied Linguistics, Department of
   Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
   - Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Contact us at coling202...@gmail.com
More information about the event in http://www.coling2020.org
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[Mt-list] Call for System Demos @ COLING 2020

[Ghazaleh Kazeminejad]

COLING’2020 CALL FOR SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONSIMPORTANT DATES:

   - Submission deadline: May 8 (Friday), 2020 (11:59pm PST)
   - Notification of acceptance: June 20 (Saturday), 2020
   - Submission of camera ready copies: June 26 (Friday), 2020
   - COLING 2020: September 15-18, 2020

INVITATION FOR SUBMISSION

The COLING 2020 Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for
system demonstrations. The demonstration program is part of the main
conference program and aims at showcasing working systems that address a
wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities to
exchange ideas gained from practical implementation of NLP systems, and to
obtain feedback from expert users.

COLING 2020 will be held at (TBA), Barcelona, Spain, from 13th to 18th of
September, 2020.

The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. It is
held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The
conference has developed into one of the premier Computational Linguistics
(CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a
major international event for the presentation of new research results and
for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of
CL and NLP.
TOPICS OF INTEREST

COLING 2018 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research on
topics, including, but not limited to:

   - Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, grammar and lexicon;
   - Lexical semantics and ontologies;
   - Word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
   - Parsing, syntactic and semantic;
   - Paraphrasing and textual entailment;
   - Modelling of discourse, machine reading;
   - Generation and Summarization;
   - Information extraction and knowledge base linking;
   - Question answering, information retrieval;
   - Multimodal & natural language interfaces, dialogue system and chat bot;
   - Multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
   - Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
   - Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
   - Models of communication by language, computational argumentation;
   - NLP tools, applications, and language resources;
   - System evaluation methodology and metrics;
   - Machine learning for natural language processing;
   - Cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
   processing;

SUBMISSIONS

The submissions should address the following questions:

   - What problem does the proposed system address?
   - Why is the system important and what is its impact?
   - What is the novel in the approach/technology on which this system is
   based?
   - Who is the target audience?
   - How does the system work?
   - How does it compare with existing systems?
   - How is the system licensed?

The maximum submission length is 4 pages (plus up to 1 additional page only
for references). Papers must be submitted in English and must conform to
the official COLING 2020 templates available from the link below. The
anonymization of submissions is optional. If authors choose to remain
anonymous, it is their responsibility to take every measure to conceal
potentially identifying information.

Download the official COLING 2020 MS Word and LaTeX templates here:
https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip

Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system:
http://www.softconf.com/coling2020/demos

The only acceptable format for submissions is PDF. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings within a separate volume dedicated to
demonstration systems.
DEMO SESSION CHAIRS

   - Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami Institute of Technology
   - Bartosz Ziolko, Techmo
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[Mt-list] COLING 2020 INDUSTRY TRACK: CALL FOR PAPERS

[Ghazaleh Kazeminejad]

The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2020) will take place in Barcelona from September 15 to 18, 2020.
The Industry Track will take place as a part of the main conference and
welcomes submission of long and short papers.

DESCRIPTION

The balance between excellent research in academia and industry has
strongly shifted in the last ten years, with industry attracting many of
the best talents and industrial research making strong contributions to
progress in our field -- both from industrial research departments that
contribute to the advancement of CL and also knowledgeable inventors and
developers of innovative language and speech products.

This session will showcase commercially-driven research, from a diverse
range of angles, including challenges of algorithmic fairness, privacy,
production scalability, and a shifting data landscape. The goals of this
session are to foster connections between industry NLP practitioners, to
share insights from industry research to the broader community, and to
increase engagement with academia on research questions of high priority in
industry.

TOPICS

The Industry Track invites submission of long and short papers in all topic
areas of COLING 2020 that focus on the real-world application and
deployment of NLP and computational linguistic advances. We are
particularly interested in the following:

- Challenges of doing applied research at scale
- Noisy and/or unpredictable data (real world v. contrived)
- Negative results related to industry applications
- Analysis, modeling, and dataset construction under the constraint of
respecting data privacy
- Algorithmic ethics and responsibility
- Evaluation methodologies, particularly for monitoring performance after
deployment
- Trade-offs between resources (environmental and production) and
performance; data size and modeling improvements
- Towards replicability in deep learning: experimental procedures necessary
to develop successful models (e.g., data preparation and parameter tuning)

Submissions on novel tasks are welcome, and we particularly encourage
authors to provide representative data samples.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, plus bibliography
for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers.
The COLING’2020 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and
also Microsoft Word format (https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip
).
Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format. Deviations from the
provided templates will result in rejections without review. Submit papers
by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12) via our Softconf
submission site: http://softconf.com/coling2020/industry


Additionally, authors should ensure the following:

- Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. If the paper is available as
a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the
paper itself. In addition, COLING’2020 will follow the same policy as
ACL'2018 establishing an anonymity period (from submission to author
notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not
allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not
rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite
published versions of papers instead of preprint version when possible.

- Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at
the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted
for publication at COLING, it must be immediately withdrawn from other
venues. If a paper under review at COLING is accepted elsewhere and authors
intend to proceed there, the COLING committee must be notified immediately.

Please note that since this track will be a part of the main 

[Mt-list] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: COLING 2020 INDUSTRY TRACK

[Ghazaleh Kazeminejad]

(apologies for cross-posting)

The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2020) will take place in Barcelona from December 8 to 11, 2020. The
Industry Track will take place as a part of the main conference and
welcomes submission of long and short papers.

DESCRIPTION

The balance between excellent research in academia and industry has
strongly shifted in the last ten years, with industry attracting many of
the best talents and industrial research making strong contributions to
progress in our field -- both from industrial research departments that
contribute to the advancement of CL and also knowledgeable inventors and
developers of innovative language and speech products.

This session will showcase commercially-driven research, from a diverse
range of angles, including challenges of algorithmic fairness, privacy,
production scalability, and a shifting data landscape. The goals of this
session are to foster connections between industry NLP practitioners, to
share insights from industry research to the broader community, and to
increase engagement with academia on research questions of high priority in
industry.

TOPICS

The Industry Track invites submission of long and short papers in all topic
areas of COLING 2020 that focus on the real-world application and
deployment of NLP and computational linguistic advances. We are
particularly interested in the following:

- Challenges of doing applied research at scale
- Noisy and/or unpredictable data (real world v. contrived)
- Negative results related to industry applications
- Analysis, modeling, and dataset construction under the constraint of
respecting data privacy
- Algorithmic ethics and responsibility
- Evaluation methodologies, particularly for monitoring performance after
deployment
- Trade-offs between resources (environmental and production) and
performance; data size and modeling improvements
- Towards replicability in deep learning: experimental procedures necessary
to develop successful models (e.g., data preparation and parameter tuning)

Submissions on novel tasks are welcome, and we particularly encourage
authors to provide representative data samples.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, plus bibliography
for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers.
The COLING’2020 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and
also Microsoft Word format (https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip
).
Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format. Deviations from the
provided templates will result in rejections without review. Submit papers
by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12) via our Softconf
submission site: http://softconf.com/coling2020/industry


Additionally, authors should ensure the following:

- Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. If the paper is available as
a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the
paper itself. In addition, COLING’2020 will follow the same policy as
ACL'2018 establishing an anonymity period (from submission to author
notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not
allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not
rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite
published versions of papers instead of preprint version when possible.

- Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at
the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted
for publication at COLING, it must be immediately withdrawn from other
venues. If a paper under review at COLING is accepted elsewhere and authors
intend to proceed there, the COLING committee must be notified immediately.

Please 

[Mt-list] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: COLING 2020 INDUSTRY TRACK [[CORRECT DATES]]

[Ghazaleh Kazeminejad]

The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2020) will take place in Barcelona from December 8 to 11, 2020. The
Industry Track will take place as a part of the main conference and
welcomes submission of long and short papers.

DATES

- 1 July 2020: Submission deadline
- 1 October 2020: Notification of acceptance
- 1 November 2020: Camera-ready papers due
- 8-11 December 2020: COLING 2020

DESCRIPTION

The balance between excellent research in academia and industry has
strongly shifted in the last ten years, with industry attracting many of
the best talents and industrial research making strong contributions to
progress in our field -- both from industrial research departments that
contribute to the advancement of CL and also knowledgeable inventors and
developers of innovative language and speech products.

This session will showcase commercially-driven research, from a diverse
range of angles, including challenges of algorithmic fairness, privacy,
production scalability, and a shifting data landscape. The goals of this
session are to foster connections between industry NLP practitioners, to
share insights from industry research to the broader community, and to
increase engagement with academia on research questions of high priority in
industry.

TOPICS

The Industry Track invites submission of long and short papers in all topic
areas of COLING 2020 that focus on the real-world application and
deployment of NLP and computational linguistic advances. We are
particularly interested in the following:

- Challenges of doing applied research at scale
- Noisy and/or unpredictable data (real world v. contrived)
- Negative results related to industry applications
- Analysis, modeling, and dataset construction under the constraint of
respecting data privacy
- Algorithmic ethics and responsibility
- Evaluation methodologies, particularly for monitoring performance after
deployment
- Trade-offs between resources (environmental and production) and
performance; data size and modeling improvements
- Towards replicability in deep learning: experimental procedures necessary
to develop successful models (e.g., data preparation and parameter tuning)

Submissions on novel tasks are welcome, and we particularly encourage
authors to provide representative data samples.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, plus bibliography
for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers.
The COLING’2020 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and
also Microsoft Word format (https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip
).
Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format. Deviations from the
provided templates will result in rejections without review. Submit papers
by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12) via our Softconf
submission site: http://softconf.com/coling2020/industry


Additionally, authors should ensure the following:

- Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. If the paper is available as
a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the
paper itself. In addition, COLING’2020 will follow the same policy as
ACL'2018 establishing an anonymity period (from submission to author
notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not
allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not
rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite
published versions of papers instead of preprint version when possible.

- Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at
the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted
for publication at COLING, it must be immediately withdrawn from other
venues. If a paper under review at COLING is 

[Mt-list] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- COLING’2020 (Main Conference)

[Ghazaleh Kazeminejad]

The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from 8 to 13 December 2020. We invite the
submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of
computational linguistics.

Because of the COVID19 pandemic, we have postponed the date of the
conference from September to December and adjusted the submission deadlines
accordingly. We are still forging ahead with our plans for an in-person
conference in Barcelona in December complemented with remote participation.
However, the situation in the coming months is very uncertain. For this
reason, we are also making parallel contingency plans for a fully virtual
conference if necessary.

Important Dates:
• 1st June 2020 Anonymity period started
• 1st July 2020 Final submissions due
• 1st October 2020 Notifications
• 1st November 2020 Camera-ready (PDF) due
• 8-11 December 2020 Main Conference
• 12-13 December 2020 Tutorials & Workshops Pre-Conference


Note: All deadlines are: 11:59 PM UTC-12:00.

Invited speakers:
• Harald Baayen, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen.
• Monica Lam, Stanford University
• Tal Linzen, John Hopkins University
• Margaret Mitchell, Google
• Amanda Stent, Bloomberg

Submissions:
COLING’2020 invites the submission of long and short papers on original and
unpublished research covering all aspects of natural language and
computation. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not
limited to, the following (in alphabetical order):

Applications (including BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, NLP for
Social Media and Journalism, among others)
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Document classification, topic modelling, information retrieval and
crosslingual retrieval
Language Generation
Language Modelling
Information Extraction and Text Mining, and Knowledge Graph
Language Resources and Evaluation
CL/NLP and Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for CL/NLP
Multilingual processing, Machine Translation and translation aids
Morphology and Word Segmentation
Semantics (of words, sentences, ontologies and lexical semantics)
Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding
Summarization and Simplification
Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
Textual Inference and Question Answering
Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition

Papers in all these areas describing NLP engineering experiments or
computationally-aided linguistic analysis as well as reproduction papers
and survey papers are welcome. In all relevant areas, we encourage authors
to include a detailed description of the methodology, the analysis of the
contribution of the proposal and in technologically-oriented papers, we
encourage in-depth error analysis linked to linguistic information.

Submission Instructions:

We invite submissions of up to nine (9) pages maximum, excluding
references, for long papers and four (4) pages, excluding references, for
short papers. The abstract should be no more than 200 words.
The COLING’2020 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and
also Microsoft Word format. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF
format. Deviations from the provided templates will result in rejections
without review. Submit papers by the end of the deadline day (timezone is
UTC-12) via our Softconf Submission Site:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/papers/

Download the MS Word and LaTeX templates here:
https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip

Author Responsibilities:
Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be
anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. If the paper is available as
a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the
paper itself. In addition, COLING’2020 will follow the same policy as
ACL'2018 establishing an anonymity period (from June 1st. to author
notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not
allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not
rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite
published versions of papers instead of preprint version when possible.

Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at
the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted
for publication at COLING, it must be immediately withdrawn from other
venues. If a paper under review at COLING is accepted elsewhere and authors
intend to proceed there, the COLING committee must be notified immediately.

Program Committee Chairs:
Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
Chengqing Zong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Contact us at coling202...@gmail.com
More information in http://www.coling2020.org
Special FAQ in https://coling2020.org/pages/faq

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