Welcome to ROCLING 2013, the flagship conference on computational linguistics, natural language processing, and speech processing in Taiwan. The conference will be held in National Sun Yat-sen University located in Kaohsiung. Kaohsiung is a rich and dynamic city with airport, high-speed railway, and mass-transportation subway. National Sun Yat-sen University is right next to the harbor area with world-class views. ROCLING 2013 is an academic event you do not want to pass! We invite paper submission, including-but-not-limited-to, in the following research areas:

Natural Language Processing
Information retrieval
Machine translation
Named entity recognition
Question answering and information extraction
Computational Linguistics
Computational morphology
Computational phonology
Parsing and part-of-speech tagging
Speech Processing
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
Voice conversion
Multi-lingual systems
Speaker recognition
Language identification
Affective Computing
Affect recognition
Affect synthesis
Affective learning

Important Dates

Paper submission: 8 August 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: 5 September 2013
Submission of camera-ready papers: 19 September 2013
Conference date: 4-5 October 2013

Paper Publications

Each submission will be reviewed based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and relevance to the conference. The conference proceedings will be included in the ACL Anthology. Selected papers will be invited to be extended and published in a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP).