[NEW: Aravind Joshi among keynote speakers.] CICLing-2003 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 16 to 22, 2003 Mexico City, Mexico SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10, short papers: October 20 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA) Aravind Joshi (U. Pennsylvania, USA) Adam Kilgarriff (Brighton U., UK) Ted Pedersen (U. of Minnesota, USA) EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies, great cave and colonial city, and more. See photos of past events at www.CICLing.org URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2003 Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics ================================================================ The latest complete version of this CFP is at that website. Just in case, below is ABRIDGED text. If you can read the website, please go there and IGNORE the rest of this document. ================================================================ Contents: - WHY CICLing? - Areas of interest - Important dates - Registration - Submission guidelines - Tentative schedule - Cultural Program - Hotel and local guide - Program Committee +------------------------------------------------------- | Why CICLing? +------------------------------------------------------- This conference is the fourth CICLing event. The past CICLing conferences have been very successful, according to the comments of the participants. 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. Mexico is a wonderful country rich in culture, history, and nature. The conference is intended for people feeling themselves young in their souls, adventurous explorers in both science and life. Our cultural program brings the participants to unique marvels of history and nature hidden from the usual tourists. Relief from frosts. In the middle of February frosts, the participants from Europe and North America can enjoy bright warm sun under the shadow of palms. The conf is held at the Center for Computer Research (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico. The IPN is one of the largest universities in the world, with over 120,000 students. The CIC is a relatively new school devoted to the cutting edge research in all areas of science related to computers, both in software and hardware. The conf is organized by the Natural Language Processing laboratory of CIC (you can find some our publications at www.Gelbukh.com). +------------------------------------------------------- | Areas of interest +------------------------------------------------------- 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 In particular, papers on the following narrower themes are especially welcome: HPSG Ambiguity resolution Word Sense Disambiguation Anaphora resolution Subcategorization 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. See more info at www.CICLing.org/2003. +------------------------------------------------------- | Important dates +------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: October 10, short papers: October 20 Notification of acceptance: November 1, short papers: November 10 Firm camera-ready deadline: November 13 Conf: February 17-23 Authors of rejected full papers will be given a chance to re-submit their works as short papers before November 5. 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 midnight November 15. +------------------------------------------------------- | Registration +------------------------------------------------------- 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 us before November 20 for early registration information. Early registration fee (before November 20): Professionals US$ 280 Students US$ 140 On-site registration fee: Professionals US$ 320 Students US$ 180 Local students enter free (no printed material). A limited number of reduced registrations will be available. See more info at www.CICLing.org/2003. +------------------------------------------------------- | Submission guidelines +------------------------------------------------------- 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 (see address below). 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 (see address below). We accept only electronic submissions, which should be properly formatted. To submit a paper, send us both or any one of the following: 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 fax at +1 (928) 441-1817. See more info at www.CICLing.org/2003. +------------------------------------------------------- | Tentative schedule +------------------------------------------------------- The specific schedule will be posted in the Program section at the website. The following schedule and, in particular, the list of excursions and their exact dates 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 16, Sunday: Excursion to Teotihuacan: ancient Indian pyramids. February 17, Monday: Registration. Talks. Welcome party. February 18, Tuesday: Talks. February 19, Wednesday: Excursion to Angangueo: Monarch Butterfly wintering site. February 20, Thursday: Talks. February 21, Friday: Talks and discussions. Excursion to the Anthropological Museum February 22, Saturday: Excursion to Cacahuamilpa and Taxco: very large cave and colonial city. We will try to arrange for an alternative excursion to the City Center on Wednesday; no guarantee yet. +------------------------------------------------------- | Cultural Program +------------------------------------------------------- One of the most exciting things at the conference are excursions to the ancient Indian pyramids and visiting a unique natural phenomenon, the Monarch Butterfly wintering site where you can see millions of beautiful butterflies in the trees and in the air around you. In common opinion of the last year's participants, the excursions were excellent; at our webisite you can see their own photos. Warning: the excursion to the Butterflies is very long and tiresome, especially for not so young people. We think it is worth the trouble, but you decide. What is more, after the death of very many butterflies in 2002, we do not know if their population will recover for the conf time. If not, this excursion may be cancelled. We will try to arrange for an alternative informal excursion to the city center at the same time as the excursion to the Butterflies. Here is the tentative list of excursions: - The Anthropological Museum: inside Mexico City - The City Center; tentative and informal - Teotihuacan: ancient Indian pyramids, 1 hour drive - Cacahuamilpa and Taxco: great cave and colonial city, 2 hours drive - Angangueo: Monarch Butterfly wintering site, 4 hours drive The reception 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). +------------------------------------------------------- | Hotel and local guide +------------------------------------------------------- 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 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/2003, Hotel, for specific info. Also, at the website you will find the following information: - How to get to the Hotel, - How to get to CIC, the conf place, - Useful local information: currency and credit cards, transportation, food museums, security. +------------------------------------------------------- | Program Committee +------------------------------------------------------- 1. Barbu, Catalina, UK 2. Boitet, Christian, France 3. Bolshakov, Igor, Mexico 4. Bontcheva, Kalina, UK 5. Brusilovsky, Peter, USA 6. Calzolari, Nicoletta, Italy 7. Carroll, John, UK 8. Cassidy, Patrick, USA 9. Cristea, Dan, Romania 10. Gelbukh, Alexander (chair), Mexico 11. Hasida, Koiti, Japan 12. Harada, Yasunari, Japan 13. Hirst, Graeme, Canada 14. Johnson, Frances, UK 15. Kittredge, Richard, USA / Canada 16. Kharrat, Alma, USA 17. Knudsen, Line, Denmark 18. Koch, Gregers, Denmark 19. Kuebler, Sandra, Germany 20. Lappin, Shalom, UK 21. Laufer, Natalia, Russia 22. Lopez-Lopez, Aurelio, Mexico 23. Loukanova, Roussanka, USA / Bulgaria 24. Luedeling, Anke, Germany 25. Maegaard, Bente, Denmark 26. Martin-Vide, Carlos, Spain 27. Mel'cuk, Igor, Canada 28. Metais, Elisabeth, France 29. Mikheev, Andrei, UK 30. Mitkov, Ruslan, UK 31. Murata, Masaki, Japan 32. Narin'yani, Alexander, Russia 33. Nevzorova, Olga, Russia 34. Nirenburg, Sergei, USA 35. Palomar, Manuel, Spain 36. Pedersen, Ted, USA 37. Pineda-Cortes, Luis Alberto, Mexico 38. Piperidis, Stelios, Greece 39. Ren, Fuji, Japan 40. Sag, Ivan, USA 41. Sidorov, Grigori, Mexico 42. Sharoff, Serge, Russia 43. Sun Maosong, China 44. Tait, John, UK 45. Trujillo, Arturo, UK 46. T'sou Ka-yin, Benjamin, Hong Kong 47. Van Guilder, Linda, USA 48. Verspoor, Karin, USA / The Netherlands 49. Vilares Ferro, Manuel, Spain 50. Wilks, Yorick, UK More info: g e l b u k h (a t) C I C L i n g (d o t) o r g www.Gelbukh.com