Youth Conference of Computational Linguistics (YCCL) is a serious of conferences held by Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS) of China every two years. These conferences are organized by students themselves, and includes communication between students and professors.

YCCL is free for students of Computational Linguistics and other associated fields.

YCCL 2012 is the 6th Youth Conference of Computational Linguistics. The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include disciplines such as psycholinguistics, speech, information retrieval, multimodal language processing. The conference welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application-orientated papers as well as papers targeting emerging domains such as bioinformatics and social media. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval
Language Resources
Lexical Semantics
Lexicon and ontology development
Machine Translation
Multilinguality
Multimodal representations and processing
Social Media
Natural Language Processing Applications
Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Spoken Language Processing
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Summarization and Generation
Syntax and Parsing
Text Classification
Text Mining
User Studies and Evaluation Methods