PRELIMINARY Call for Papers:
CICLing-2004
Fourth International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing
and Computational Linguistics
February 15 to 21, 2004
Seoul, Korea
SUMMARY
PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: October 20
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
To be announced
EXCURSIONS:
To be announced (one: Royal Palaces of Seoul)
See photos of past events at www.CICLing.org
AIR TICKET PRICE FROM EU/US: about $1000 in February
URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2004
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Contents:
- WHY CICLing?
- Areas of interest
- Important dates
- Registration
- Submission guidelines
- Tentative schedule
- Cultural Program
- Hotel and local guide
- Program Committee
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| Why CICLing?
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This conference is the fourth CICLing event. We consider the
following factors to define our identity:
General interest. The conf covers nearly all topics related
to computational linguistics. This makes it attractive for
people from different areas and leads to vivid and interesting
discussions and exchange of opinions.
Informal interaction. It is intended for a small group of
professionals, some 50 participants. This allows for informal
and friendly atmosphere, more resembling a friendly party than
an official event. At CICLing you can pass hours speaking with
your favorite famous scientists who you scarcely could greet in
the crowd at large confs.
Excellent excursions. The conference is intended for
people feeling themselves young in their souls, adventurous
explorers in both science and life. Our cultural program often
brings the participants to unique marvels of history and nature
hidden from the ordinary tourists.
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| Areas of interest
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In general, we are interested in whatever helps, will help eventually,
or might help computers meaningfully process language data.
The conference is intended to the exchange of opinions between the
scientists working in different areas of the growing field of
computational linguistics and intelligent text processing. Our idea
is to get a general view of the state of art in computational
linguistics and its applications.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited by, the following topics,
as long as the topic is presented in computer-related or formal
description aspects:
Computational linguistics research:
Computational linguistic theories and formalisms
Representation of linguistic knowledge
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse models
Text generation
Statistical methods in computational linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Lexical resources
Intelligent text processing and applications:
Document classification and search
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Text mining
Automatic summarization
Spell checking
Natural language interfaces
Naturally, we welcome the works on processing any language, not
necessarily English, though major languages are of more general
interest. Note: when describing phenomena of languages other than
English, please be sure to make your discussion understandable for
people not familiar with this language.
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| Important dates
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Submission deadline: October 10, short papers: October 20
Notification of acceptance: October 20, short papers: November 1
Firm camera-ready deadline: November 10
Conf: February 15-21
Authors of rejected full papers will be given a chance to re-submit
their works as short papers.
Please note that the camera-ready deadline is firm. We do not guarantee
the inclusion of any paper that does not arrive (camera-ready version)
by the November 10.
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| Registration
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Authors of accepted papers: By submitting a paper, at least one author
thereby promises, in case of acceptance of the paper, to attend the
conf in person to present their paper and to pay the corresponding early
registration fee. Unless the current policy changes, the authors of
accepted papers will register on-site at the early registration rate.
Note: We reserve the right to change this information before
November 15; please check our website.
Public: Please contact registration@cicling.org before November 10 for
early registration information.
Early registration fee (before November 10):
Professionals US$ 280
Students US$ 180
On-site registration fee:
Professionals US$ 350
Students US$ 220
A limited number of reduced registrations will be available.
See more info at www.CICLing.org/2004.
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| Submission guidelines
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All accepted full and short papers will be published in a
Proceedings volume edited by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series.
The full papers should not exceed 12 pages, though we encourage
you to keep it as short as possible (but not shorter!). If you
really need more pages, please let us know: gelbukh@cicling.org.
Short papers should not exceed 4 pages and should, if possible,
contain references to Internet sites where more detail on the work
can be found. Otherwise the format of the short papers is identical
to that of full papers.
Please strictly follow the format guidelines of Springer LNSC series,
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. We cannot guarantee
publication of any paper that does not follow these guidelines. Please
do not hesitate to ask any questions at gelbukh@cicling.org.
We accept only electronic submissions, which should be properly
formatted. To submit a paper, send both or any one of the following
at submission@cicling.org:
PostScript or PDF file. PostScript usually better works
with non-English characters.
Source file in RTF or DOC. Or, file in LaTeX together with
a PostScript or PDF file.
When sending us the camera-ready paper, please send all of the
following:
Source file in LaTeX or RTF (not in DOC). If you use LaTeX,
then also all necessary source files, such as EPS pictures
and all style files different from llncs.cls (note that the
use of custom style files is strongly discouraged).
PostScript and PDF file, if you are unable to produce a PDF
file. If you use LaTeX, then also DVI file.
Copyright form (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/copyrigh.html)
by email as a scanned fine fax resolution image.
See more info at www.CICLing.org/2004.
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| Tentative schedule
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The specific schedule will be posted in the Program section
at the website.
The following schedule is tentative.
There will be four working days and three days of excursions. You can
arrive on Monday and leave on Friday if you wish; then you will loose
two excursions.
February 15, Sunday:
Excursion (to be announced).
February 16, Monday:
Registration. Talks. Welcome party.
February 17, Tuesday:
Talks.
February 18, Wednesday:
Excursion (to be announced, probably to the Royal Palaces of
Seoul).
February 19, Thursday:
Talks.
February 20, Friday:
Talks and discussions.
February 21, Saturday:
Excursion (to be announced).
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| Welcome Party
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The welcome party will be combined with the Poster and Demo section.
We will have some snack, maybe some wine. (No music, no real food, even
no tables, sorry: we consider official banquets waste of your valuable
time.) You will enjoy the informal atmosphere to speak with each other
and with the presenters of the posters and demos. You will also have a
chance to show and discuss your own programs (for this, please let us
know your software and hardware requirements).
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| Hotel and local guide
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We suggest that it is convenient for the participants to stay in the
same hotel, to facilitate informal interaction. Usually our participants
form ad-hoc informal companies in the hotel reception to go to some
restaurant, walking tours, etc.
We will try to provide free transportation from the recommended hotel
to the conf place. Also, we will try to get discounted rates for the
conf participants in this hotel.
Please notify us in advance if you wish to reserve a room in this
hotel. Please see www.CICLing.org/2004, Hotel, for specific info.
Also, at the website you will find the following information:
- How to get to the Hotel,
- How to get to the conf place,
- Useful local information: currency and credit cards, transportation,
food museums, security.
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| Program Committee
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This is a tentative list! More people will be added.
1. Barbu, Catalina, UK (to be confirmed)
2. Boitet, Christian, France (to be confirmed)
3. Bolshakov, Igor, Mexico
4. Bontcheva, Kalina, UK
5. Brusilovsky, Peter, USA (to be confirmed)
6. Calzolari, Nicoletta, Italy (to be confirmed)
7. Carroll, John, UK (to be confirmed)
8. Cassidy, Patrick, USA (to be confirmed)
9. Cristea, Dan, Romania
10. Gelbukh, Alexander (chair), Mexico
11. Han, SangYong, Korea
12. Harada, Yasunari, Japan
13. Hasida, Koiti, Japan
14. Hirst, Graeme, Canada (to be confirmed)
15. Johnson, Frances, UK (to be confirmed)
16. Kharrat, Alma, USA
17. Kilgarriff, Adam, UK
18. Kittredge, Richard, USA / Canada
19. Knudsen, Line, Denmark (to be confirmed)
20. Koch, Gregers, Denmark (to be confirmed)
21. Kuebler, Sandra, Germany (to be confirmed)
22. Lappin, Shalom, UK (to be confirmed)
23. Laufer, Natalia, Russia (to be confirmed)
24. Lopez-Lopez, Aurelio, Mexico (to be confirmed)
25. Loukanova, Roussanka, USA / Bulgaria (to be confirmed)
26. Luedeling, Anke, Germany
27. Maegaard, Bente, Denmark (to be confirmed)
28. Martin-Vide, Carlos, Spain
29. Mel'cuk, Igor, Canada (to be confirmed)
30. Metais, Elisabeth, France
31. Mihalcea, Rada, USA/Romania
32. Mikheev, Andrei, UK (to be confirmed)
33. Mitkov, Ruslan, UK
34. Murata, Masaki, Japan (to be confirmed)
35. Narin'yani, Alexander, Russia
36. Nevzorova, Olga, Russia (to be confirmed)
37. Nirenburg, Sergei, USA (to be confirmed)
38. Palomar, Manuel, Spain (to be confirmed)
39. Pedersen, Ted, USA
40. Pekar, Viktor, UK
41. Pineda-Cortes, Luis Alberto, Mexico (to be confirmed)
42. Piperidis, Stelios, Greece (to be confirmed)
43. Pustejovsky, James, USA
44. Ren, Fuji, Japan
45. Sag, Ivan, USA
46. Sidorov, Grigori, Mexico
47. Sharoff, Serge, Russia (to be confirmed)
48. Sun Maosong, China (to be confirmed)
49. Tait, John, UK
50. Trujillo, Arturo, UK (to be confirmed)
51. T'sou Ka-yin, Benjamin, Hong Kong (to be confirmed)
52. Van Guilder, Linda, USA
53. Verspoor, Karin, USA / The Netherlands
54. Vilares Ferro, Manuel, Spain (to be confirmed)
55. Wilks, Yorick, UK (to be confirmed)
More info: gelbukh@CICLing.org
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