CICLing-2008 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics February 17-23, 2008; Haifa, Israel www.CICLing.org/2008 PUBLICATION: LNCS: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, IEEE CS Press volume (anticipated), RCS: Journal "Research in Computing Science" KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ido Dagan, Alon Lavie, Kemal Oflazer, more to be announced (see webpage soon). TOURS: Jerusalem, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Bahai Gardens, and much more. AWARDS: Best paper, best presentation, best poster. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15: registration of abstract, October 25: uploading of full paper (contact organizers for a late submission) TOPICS: Computational linguistics research: Comp. Linguistics theories and formalisms, knowledge representation, discourse models, comp. morphology, syntax, semantics, machine translation, text generation, statistical methods, lexical resources; Intelligent text processing and applications: Information retrieval, question answering, information extraction, text mining, document categorization and clustering, automatic summarization, NL interfaces, spell-checking and all related topics. See complete CFP and contact on www.CICLing.org/2008