CICLing Conference

Feb 18:	Last-minute changes were made to the schedule; see announcements there.
Feb 14:	Here is the bank account info.
Feb 12:	Here is information on the conf place and hotel. See the conf place in Google Earth.
Feb 12:	You can see the abstract of each paper by clicking on its page number in the schedule. Here is the LNCS frontmatter and RCS frontmatter, with the acceptance rate info, etc. Download all together in one file: LNCS frontmatter and all abstracts, RCS frontmatter and all abstracts. Print these out and read on the plane to decide what talks to attend and to prepare good questions.
Dec 5:	List of accepted papers with acceptance rate.
Oct 21:	Keynote speakers: Nancy Ide, Rada Mihalcea, Eduard Hovy.

Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

Photos of past CICLing-2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (Mexico), 2004 (Korea), 2005 (Mexico).

*Science*	*History*	*Nature*	*Culture*

Igor Mel’cuk explains to Sofia the HUGE success of the Meaning-Text Theory.	70 m. tall, 2000 years old Pyramid of the Sun. I. Bolshakov and I. Mel’cuk.	In the cave, the underground kingdom. Mrs. Gelbukh with her son Boris.	In the streets of Mexico City. Dance of Aztec warriors. Photo by Karine.
Please distribute! Plain text version of CFP, Poster

This conference is the seventh CICLing event. The past CICLing conferences have been very successful, according to the comments of the participants: Fantastic conference! (Martin Kay, 2004), Everything was just great! Super-hyper-ultra-well done! (Igor Mel'cuk, 2000). We consider the following factors to define our identity:

Excellent keynote speakers. We invite the most prominent scientists of the field to give keynote talks which, unlike at many other confs, are published in extenso in the Proceedings. They also organize an additional tutorial or discussion, and usually even participate in the excursions, where you can speak with them in an informal environment. [Past participants' opinions]

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 rather small group of professionals. 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 conferences.

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 ordinary tourists.

Relief from frosts. In the middle of February frosts, the participants from Northern countries can enjoy bright warm sun under the shadow of palms.

The conf is organized by 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).

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:

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.

You can have a look at the past CICLing-2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 tables of contents to get an idea of our interests. If you are not sure whether your particular topic is of interest, please do not hesitate to ask us.

Traditionally, our keynote speakers give a formal talk, which is also published in extenso in the Proceedings, and also organize a "special event" (a discussion, tutorial, experiment, or something just interesting). Such events, as well as publication of the keynote talks in the Proceedings, are distinguishing features of CICLing.

Submission deadline (paper registration: one-paragraph abstract only)	October 17
Uploading main text (for previously submitted abstract)	October 24
Notification of acceptance	November 25
Camera-ready & early registration (see here) deadline	December 10
Conference	February 19 to 25

The deadlines are firm; we do not guarantee consideration of any paper not received by the deadline. Deadlines are the same for full and short papers. Submission is split in two stages:

First, you must register your paper; at this moment you should provide only its tentative abstract (later you can make changes to both title and abstract, provided that the topic and main points do not change significantly). Do not confuse this one-paragraph abstract with a short paper. Both full and short papers are to be registered with a one-paragraph abstract by October 17 (extended); it is the length of the main text (to be submitted by October 24) that differs full and short papers.

One week later, you submit the full text of your paper, complete and in the required format; no changes will be permitted in camera-ready version except those requested by the reviewers. No (extended) abstracts will be considered for review at this stage. Papers for which the abstracts were not received by the first deadline will not be considered: you cannot submit a paper on October 24 if you did not submit its abstract by October 17.

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 the paper and to pay the corresponding early registration fee. The authors of accepted papers will register on-site at the early registration rate.

Public (not authors): For early registration information, please contact us before the early registration deadline, clearly indicating that you are not an author of accepted paper.

The registration will be paid on site, in cash (US$ or Mexican pesos); we are also working on providing a way to pay on site with a credit card. All authors will pay early fee. Those of general public who did not arrange with us the payment of the early fee, will pay full fee. Please do not send us any money, unless otherwise is explicitly agreed with us.

	Professionals	Students	Local students
Early and authors	US$ 320	US$ 250	free entrance
Public on site	US$ 370	US$ 300	free entrance

On reduced registration fee: A very limited number of reduced registrations may be available. To apply, please contact us and thoroughly justify your application. Eligible for reduced registration can be people from underdeveloped countries in case if their institutions have real difficulties paying the full fee (included: Latin America, Eastern Europe; not included: North America, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea). Authors must apply for reduced registration (clearly indicating the discount amount) before submission of their paper; no new applications will be considered for already reviewed papers. Notes: (1) Though all papers are judged by strictly academic criteria, (only) for borderline cases and (only) between papers of comparable quality we may give preference to papers with fully paid fee. (2) Though we will do our best for this not to happen, we cannot guarantee providing the conf material (including the Proceedings) and the conf lunch tickets to participants with reduced fee. Also, in case of lack of seats in the excursion bus we will give preference to fully registered participants.

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 contact us.

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. In all other respects the format of the short papers is identical to that of full papers.

Please provide your paper in the form in which it should appear in the book (but without page numbers, running heads, and copyright note). However, since the review process is blind, please do not indicate the author names or any information that may disclose the authors' identity (obviously, in the camera-ready version you should indicate the names).

Please strictly follow the format guidelines of Springer LNSC series (you can get the style files here). We cannot guarantee publication of any paper that does not follow these guidelines. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions.

1. Word users: Do not underline email addresses or URLs, and do not write them in blue font. See also below the notes on bugs in the Word template.

2. All figures, tables, formulas, etc. must be within margins. We will not be able to include papers that do not meet this requirement.

4. Please do not leave unused space on the pages. Try moving your figures if they cause unused space. Avoid if possible the last page being filled less than to 1/3.

5. No section title should be the last line on the page. Avoid widow and orphan lines.

7. Figure captions must be below the figure; table captions must be above the table (especially important for TeX users). Both figures and tables should be centered.

8. Do not use colors in figures: they will not be visible in paper book. Especially in Excel drawings, a blue and a red line will look the same, and a yellow line will not be visible at all. In Excel drawings, eliminate the outer frame and make the background white (not grey), see below.

9. For homogenous look of the book, please format the tables, whenever it does not cause difficulties in understanding the table, with only three thin horizontal lines:

Incorrect:


Collection	R	P	F
Reuters	0.6	0.8	0.7
CACM	0.7	0.7	0.7
BNC	0.8	0.6	0.7
Penn	0.9	0.5	0.8

Correct:


Collection	R	P	F
Reuters	0.6	0.8	0.7
CACM	0.7	0.7	0.7
BNC	0.8	0.6	0.7
Penn	0.9	0.5	0.8

		Eduard Hovy Director of the Natural Language Group at ISI; Deputy Director of the Intelligent Systems Division of ISI; Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at USC; Director of Research for the Digital Government Research Center (DGRC). Topic: Integrating Semantic Frames from Multiple Sources. NEW: Additional topic: Toward Semantic Corpora: Creating Concepts from Words via Senses, and Storing them in an Ontology. NEW: Informal event: An Exercise in Lexical Semantics: Concept Creation and Validation from Words via Senses.

		Nancy Ide Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, and Chercheur Associé, Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS. Topic: Making Senses: Bootstrapping Sense-tagged Lists of Semantically-Related Words.

		Rada Mihalcea Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of North Texas. Topic: Random Walks on Text Structures.