ROCLING 2018 is the 30th annual Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing in Taiwan sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP). The conference will be held in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, during October 4-5, 2018.

ROCLING 2018 will provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all NLP areas, including computational linguistics, information understanding, and speech processing. We invite paper submission reporting original investigation results and system development experience as well as real-world applications.

* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
It is our pleasure and honor to have the following keynote speakers:
  . Prof. Kathleen McKeown, Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
  . Prof. Shinji Watanabe, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

* TOPICS OF INTEREST
The conference invites the submissions related to the topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Computational Linguistics
  . Cognitive/Psychological linguistics
  . Computational semantics
  . Computational pragmatics
  . Computational morphology
  . Computational phonology
  . Discourse processing
  . Dialogue system
  . Natural language generation
  . Syntax and parsing
  . Word segmentation / POS tagging / Chunking

- Information Understanding
  . Information extraction and database linking
  . Information retrieval
  . Language learning
  . Machine translation/ Multi-lingual systems
  . Named entity recognition
  . NLP tools/resources
  . Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
  . Question answering
  . Semantic processing
  . Summarization
  . Textual Entailment
  . Applications/software/ Tools

- Speech Processing
  . Spoken language processing
  . Speech analysis
  . Speech understanding
  . Speech synthesis/conversion
  . Speech/speaker/language recognition
  . Speech based affective computing
  . Speech summarization
  . Speech enhancement
  . Speech coding
  . Text-to-speech

* PAPER SUBMISSION

Each submission will be reviewed based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as poster presentations. Both oral and poster presentations will be published in the ROCLING 2018 conference proceedings and included in the ACL Anthology. A number of papers will be selected as Journal versions and invited for extension and publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP), http://www.aclclp.org.tw/journal/.

* IMPORTANT DATES
  . Paper Submission Due August 03, 2018
  . Notification of Acceptance August 24, 2018
  . Camera-Ready Final Papers Due September 3, 2018
  . Conference Early Registration Deadline September 10, 2018