CALL FOR PAPERS

PACLING 2017

Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics August 16 - 18, 2017

Yangon, Myanmar

http://pacling.ucsy.edu.mm

PACLING 2017 will be a high-quality, workshop-style conference whose aim is to promote friendly scientific interaction relating to computational linguistics among Pacific rim countries. The emphasis of the conference is on interdisciplinary scientific exchange open towards original high-quality research including one which might fall outside current dominant schools of thought, and on technological transfer within and across the Pacific region.

TOPICS

Substantial, original, and unpublished research is welcome on any topics in computational linguistics, including, but not limited to the following:

Phonology and Phonetics
Morphology and Morphological Analysis
Syntax and Syntactic Analysis
Semantics and Semantic Analysis
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
Spoken Language and Dialogue
Language Resources
Corpora and Corpus-based Language Processing
Text and Message Understanding
Text and Message Generation
Information Extraction and Text Mining
Information Retrieval and Question-Answering
Text Summarization
Language Learning
Machine Translation
Natural Language Interfaces
Semantic Web and Semantic Computation

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline : April 19, 2017
Notification of acceptance : May 25, 2017
Camera-ready copy due : July 10, 2017
Conference dates : August 16 - 18, 2017

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors should prepare submissions in English of up to 6 pages including references. Guidelines and style sheets (based on the IEEE format) are available at the website.
Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence must declare this fact. If a paper appears at another conference, it must be withdrawn from PACLING 2017. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to rejection without review.

All papers will be submitted electronically in PDF format, through the web-based conference management system called EasyChair. To submit through EasyChair, go to the PACLING 2017 EasyChair page:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacling2017
The submitted papers need not be anoymous.

BEST PAPER AWARD AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Awards for best paper and best student paper will be selected based on the reviews by the program committee.
PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in CD-ROM and made available on the website (after a given date).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair: Koiti Hasida
Professor
Social ICT Research Center
University of Tokyo, Japan

contact: pacling2017@gmail.com