IJCNLP 2013 Call for Papers, Call for Demonstrations, Call for Tutorials,
and Call for Workshop Proposals

IJCNLP 2013: The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language
Processing
October 14-19, 2013, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan
http://www.ijcnlp2013.org

The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language
Processing, organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language
Processing, will be held in Nagoya, Japan during the period October 14-19,
2013. The conference will cover a broad range of technical areas related to
the computational treatment of natural language. IJCNLP 2013 will
feature full papers, short papers, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.


October 14: Tutorials, Pre-Conference Workshop
October 15-17: Main Conference
October 18-19: Post-Conference Workshop


General Chair
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Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Program Committee Chairs
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Jong Park, KAIST, Korea

Local Organizing Committee Chair
Hitoshi Isahara, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Workshop Committee Chairs
Naoaki Okazaki, Tohoku University, Japan
Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Vincent Ng, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA

Demo Chairs
Hang Li, Huawei Technologies Co., China
Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan

Sponsorship Committee Chair
Hiromi Nakaiwa, NTT, Japan

Publication Committee Chairs
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Finance Committee Chairs
Masayuki Okabe, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Publicity Committee Chairs
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Diego Moll?-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia
Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


Call for Papers
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IJCNLP 2013 invites submissions of papers reporting original and unpublished
research on all aspects of language processing and computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following: Phonology;
Morphology; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Discourse; Dialog; Corpora;
Dictionaries; Ontologies; Language resources for minority languages;
Statistical and Machine Learning approaches; Finite-State Technology;
Language models; POS tagging; Parsing; Semantic role labeling; Word- sense
disambiguation; Anaphora and co-reference resolution; Natural language
generation; Speech processing; Dialog Systems; Machine Translation;
Information Retrieval; Information Extraction; Named Entity Recognition;
Text summarization; Question Answering; Text mining; Opinion Mining
and Sentiment Analysis; NLP for medical applications; NLP for
educational applications; Text accessibility; Plagiarism detection;
Author identification; Spam filtering.


Important Dates
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May 17, 2013: Full paper/short paper submission due
July 8, 2013: Full paper/short paper acceptance notification
August 9, 2013: Camera ready due
October 15-17, 2013: Main conference


Program Committee Chairs
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Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Jong Park, KAIST, Korea


Call for Demonstrations
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The IJCNLP 2013 Demonstration Committee invites proposals for
the Demonstrations Program. We encourage both the submission of
early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. We also
welcome demo proposals related to submission to the main
conference. Commercial sales and marketing activities are inappropriate for
the Program.


Areas of interest
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Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied
computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed
for the conference paper submission.

The systems may be of the following kinds:
* Natural Language Processing systems or system components
* Application systems using language technology components
* Software tools for computational linguistics research
* Software for demonstration or evaluation
* Development tools


Format for submissions
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Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to
the Demo Chairs. Please use the main IJCNLP paper formatting guidelines. The
entire proposal should not be more than four pages.

* An extended abstract of the technical content to be
demonstrated, including title, authors, full contact information,
references, and acknowledgements.
* A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including
accompanying narrative, and either a Web address for accessing the demo
or visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).
* A detailed description of the hardware, software and internet service
requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer.


Submissions procedure
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Submission procedure will be announced later. The deadline for proposals is
May 24, 2013. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance
to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution,
presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints. Accepted
submissions will be allocated maximum four pages in the Companion Volume to
the Proceedings of the Conference.


Important dates
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May 24, 2013: Demo proposal submission due
July 8, 2013: Demo proposal acceptance notification
August 9, 2013: Demo paper camera ready due
October 15-17: Conference


Demonstrations chairs
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Kentaro Torisawa (NICT, Japan)
Hang Li (Huawei Technologies, China)


Call for Tutorials
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IJCNLP 2013 seeks proposals for tutorials on all topics of computational
linguistics, broadly conceived to include areas such as speech processing,
information retrieval, psycholinguistics and language issues in emerging
domains such as social media, bioinformatics, and processing of legal
documents. Especially encouraged are tutorials that introduce recent
advancements in cross-disciplinary areas such as network analysis, machine
learning, and grounding in language processing.


Submission details
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Proposals for tutorials should contain:
1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and
its relevance to the NLP community (not more than 2 pages).
2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that
the tutorial's core content can be covered in a three-hour slot
(including a coffee break). In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots
are available as well.
3. A sample (and preferably all, if available) of the slides and any
other material that will be used for the tutorial.
4. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of
their research interests and areas of expertise.
5. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, ifthe
same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise
an estimate of the audience size.
6. A description of special requirements for technical
equipment (e.g., internet access).

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in a single PDF file or a
single plain ASCII text file no later than May 17, 2013
to tcc@ijcnlp2013.org.

The subject line should be: "IJCNLP 2013: TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".

You will receive an email confirmation that your proposal has
been received. If you do not receive this confirmation 24 hours
after sending the proposal, please send email again to the above addresses.


Tutorial speaker responsibilities
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Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by June 17, 2013, and must then
provide the brief descriptions and outlines of their tutorials for inclusion
in the conference registration material by August 5, 2013. The descriptions
and outlines should be in ASCII version that can be included in email
announcements and published on the conference web site. Tutorial speakers
must provide the final tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the
course slides as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the
tutorial, by August 26, 2013.


Important dates
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Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: May 17, 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 17, 2013
Tutorial descriptions due: August 5, 2013
Tutorial course material due: August 26, 2013
Tutorial date: October 14, 2013


Tutorials co-chairs
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Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA


More information
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Please send inquiries concerning IJCNLP-13 tutorials to Satoshi
Sekine (tcc@ijcnlp2013.org).


Call for Workshop Proposals
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IJCNLP 2013 solicits proposals on any topic of interest to the
natural language processing communities.


Submission Information
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Proposals for workshops should be no more than four pages on A4
sized paper in length, and should be in text or PDF format. It
should contain the following information:
1. A title and brief (two-page max) description of the workshop topic
and content.
2. The desired workshop length (half day, full day or two days), the
preference (pre- or post-conference) and an estimate of the number of
attendees.
3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
the organizers with one-paragraph statements of their research interests
and areas of expertise.
4. A list of potential members of the program committee with
an indication of which members have already agreed.
5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.
6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.

Soft versions of the Workshop proceedings will be published in a USB flash
drive and may also be made available in the ACL archive (to
be finalized). Although AFNLP holds the copyrights of the published papers,
workshop organizers are encouraged to go for special issues of reputed
journals with extended versions. Please submit workshop proposals to the
workshop co-chairs (wcc at ijcnlp2013 dot org) by March 8, 2013.


Important Dates
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March 8, 2013: Workshop proposal due
March 22, 2013: Notification of acceptance

Timelines for IJCNLP 2013 Workshops
April 5, 2013: Proposed workshop 1st CFP
May 10, 2013: Proposed workshop 2nd CFP
June 7, 2013: Proposed paper submission due date
July 29, 2013: Proposed notification of acceptance
Aug 23, 2013: Camera-ready deadline
Oct 14, 2013: Pre-Conference Workshops
Oct 18-19, 2013: Post-Conference Workshops


Workshop Co-Chairs
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Naoaki Okazaki (Tohoku University, Japan)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)

Sanja Stajner
http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in3168/index.html

PhD candidate at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics Research
Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP) University of
Wolverhampton, UK