================================================================ [*NEW*] Speech Processing keynote speaker; late submissions ================================================================ CICLing-2004 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 15 to 21, 2004 Seoul, Korea SUMMARY PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS (indexed by SCI Extended) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, short papers: October 20 [*NEW*] Contact us for late submissions KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Martin Kay, Philip Resnik, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, [*NEW*] Nick Campbell: "Expressive Speech Processing" EXCURSIONS: Archeological sites, Royal Palaces, traditional village, and more See photos at www.CICLing.org/2004 Air ticket price from EU/US: $800 - $1000 in February URL: http://www.CICLing.org/2004 ================================================================ The latest complete version of this CFP is on the website. Just in case, below is an 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? +------------------------------------------------------- We consider the following factors to define our identity: - ISI-indexed publication - Excellent keynote speakers - General interest - Informal interaction - Excellent excursions +------------------------------------------------------- | Areas of interest +------------------------------------------------------- We are interested in whatever helps, will help eventually, or might help computers meaningfully process language data. 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 +------------------------------------------------------- | Important dates +------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: October 1, 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. +------------------------------------------------------- | Registration +------------------------------------------------------- Authors: By submitting a paper, at least one author thereby promises, in case of acceptance, to attend the conf in person and to pay the EARLY registration fee. Public: Please contact us before November 10 for early registration information. Early (before November 10) / On-site registration fee: Professionals US$ 280 / 350 Students US$ 180 / 220 A limited number of reduced registrations will be available. +------------------------------------------------------- | 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. Page limit: 12 / 4 pages (full / short papers). Format: Springer LNCS, www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submission: (see contact information below). +------------------------------------------------------- | Tentative schedule +------------------------------------------------------- The specific schedule will be posted in the Program section at the website. February 15, Sunday: Excursion to Yellow Sea, archeological site. February 16, Monday: Registration. Talks. Welcome party. February 17, Tuesday: Talks and discussions. February 18, Wednesday: Excursion the Royal Palaces of Seoul. February 19, Thursday: Talks. February 20, Friday: Talks and discussions. February 21, Saturday: Excursion to traditional village and more. +------------------------------------------------------- | Welcome Party +------------------------------------------------------- The welcome party will be combined with the Poster and Demo section. We will have some snack, maybe some wine. (No music, no heavy food, no tables.) +------------------------------------------------------- | 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 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. +------------------------------------------------------- | Program Committee +------------------------------------------------------- 1. Boitet, Christian, France 2. Bolshakov, Igor, Mexico 3. Bontcheva, Kalina, UK 4. Calzolari, Nicoletta, Italy 5. Carroll, John, UK 6. Cristea, Dan, Romania 7. Gelbukh, Alexander (chair), Mexico 8. Hallett, Catalina, UK 9. Han, SangYong, Korea 10. Harada, Yasunari, Japan 11. Hasida, Koiti, Japan 12. Hirst, Graeme, Canada 13. Hovy, Eduard, USA 14. Johnson, Frances, UK 15. Kharrat, Alma, USA 16. Kilgarriff, Adam, UK 17. Kittredge, Richard, USA / Canada 18. Kuebler, Sandra, Germany 19. Lopez-Lopez, Aurelio, Mexico 20. Loukanova, Roussanka, USA / Bulgaria 21. Luedeling, Anke, Germany 22. Maegaard, Bente, Denmark 23. Martin-Vide, Carlos, Spain 24. Mel'cuk, Igor, Canada 25. Metais, Elisabeth, France 26. Mihalcea, Rada, USA/Romania 27. Mitkov, Ruslan, UK 28. Murata, Masaki, Japan 29. Narin'yani, Alexander, Russia 30. Nirenburg, Sergei, USA 31. Palomar, Manuel, Spain 32. Pedersen, Ted, USA 33. Pekar, Viktor, UK 34. Pineda-Cortes, Luis Alberto, Mexico 35. Piperidis, Stelios, Greece 36. Pustejovsky, James, USA 37. Ren, Fuji, Japan 38. Riloff, Ellen, USA 39. Sag, Ivan, USA 40. Sidorov, Grigori, Mexico 41. Sharoff, Serge, UK 42. Sun Maosong, China 43. Tait, John, UK 44. Trujillo, Arturo, UK 45. T'sou Ka-yin, Benjamin, Hong Kong 46. Van Guilder, Linda, USA 47. Verspoor, Karin, USA / The Netherlands 48. Vilares Ferro, Manuel, Spain 49. Wilks, Yorick, UK More info: www.CICLing.org; g e l b u k h (a t) C I C L i n g (d o t) o r g