CICLing Conference

Schedule
NEW Registration and payment form

Announcements

February 19		Schedule is changed slightly. See the details in the announcements there.
February 17		Please look at the CFP for International Journal of Translation and contact me at the conference if you are interested.
February 16		The topic of the keynote talk by Kathy McKeown will be: Text Summarization: News and Beyond (corrected in the schedule).
February 14		Registration page is ready at last! Please URGENTLY fill in your information. We appreciate if you fill it in even if you have previously sent it to us by email. In addition, you can pay your registration fee via this page (preferably), or you can pay on site if you wish, with a credit card (Visa or MasterCard) or cash. Also, please book your room in the hotel via this page. (If you have booked it earlier via email. please repeat this information via the page just in case; however, if you don't, nothing bad happens: we hopefully have your info.)
February 14		In addition to Blackwell (see below), during the conference there will be free full-text access for the participants to a subset of journals of Springer editorial house, www.springerlink.com (from the internal network of the Institute).
February 14		Schedule is updated: specific times are added, some talks moved, general view and transportation schedule added.
February 13		During the conference there will be free full-text access for the participants to all journals of Blackwell editorial house, www.blackwell-synergy.com (from the internal network of the Institute).
February 12		Hotel: To simplify things, we've passed to the hotel the list of all authors (see here). When you tell them you come to CICLing and your name is on this list, you will have a discounted discounted price and one of the 70 rooms reserved for the conf. If you are not on this list, please contact us.
February 6		Banquet is added on Friday evening. We may have to make small changes to the schedule to free up the time for it.
February 6		The Springer LNCS Proceedings (oral talks) have arrived. The book is: LNCS volume 4394, ISSN 0302-9734, ISBN-10: 3-540-70938-X, ISBN-13: 978 3-540-70938-1. The final table of contents is here (large files -- scanned images of the book!): page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
February 6		Hotel: The price confirmed by the hotel El Ejecutivo (the same hotel as planned originally) is here. A list of all specific requests we have received so far is here; we will confirm the details of each specific request by email. For those not on the list: We have booked a number of rooms enough for all participants. We will contact you soon to ask for the details, but in any case, there are enough rooms for all. Please do not book your room directly with the hotel if you want to pay the discounted price.
January 29		Registration: we are still working on a web system that will allow you to pay with a credit card and fill in some information, such as reserve your seats in the excursion buses. We will contact you when ready. Authors and persons who contacted us in time will pay the early fee.
January 29		Posters: The format and camera-ready deadline are not yet defined. We are working on this, and will contact you when ready. Please have your paper ready meanwhile.

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Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

Photos of past CICLing-2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 (Mexico), 2004 (Korea), 2005, 2006 (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 eighth 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 to, 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-2006, 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.

		Gregory Grefenstette Professor of the Laboratoire d'ingénerie de la connaissance multimédia multilingue, France. Topic of the special event: Is NLP good for anything?.

		Kathleen McKeown Professor of Computer Science Department at Columbia University, New York, USA. Topic of the special event: Evaluation: When does it help and when does it hurt?

		Raymond Mooney Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA. Topic: To be announced.

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.

Deadline for registration of abstracts	Now!
Deadline for uploading of full text of registered papers	October 6
(contact the organizers for late submission)
Notification of acceptance	November 19
Camera-ready & early registration (see here) deadline	December 8
Conference	February 18 to 24

We cannot guarantee processing of any paper that does not arrive by the corresponding deadline. However, you may contact us if you really cannot submit your paper in time, and we will see what can be done.

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 registration fee.

We expect to provide a way to pay by credit card via Internet. The payment instructions will be announced here later.

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.

See a link to the submission web system at the end of this section. However, please read first the format guidelines.

The papers should not exceed 12 pages. A small additional fee will be charged for additional pages exceeding this limit. Please contact us if you exceed the limit by more than 2 pages. The additional fee is charged for the pages exceeding the page limit in either the version submitted for review or in the camera-ready version, whichever is greater. This means that you should not shorten the camera-ready version in comparison with the version submitted for review, unless the reviewer required this; in any case such shortening would not reduce the additional fee.

Note: Traditionally, there has been the modality of short papers. Since this year, according to the instructions that we received from our publisher, Springer, we only offer the modality of full papers. We apologize for inconvenience. Poster session papers will be published in another journal.

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 double 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:

	Professionals	Students	Local students
Early	US$ 340	US$ 270	free entrance
On site	US$ 390	US$ 320	free entrance

2007 Keynote Speakers (more to be announced)

Gregory Grefenstette	Kathleen McKeown	Raymond Mooney