ROCLING XVI

The 16th ROCLING Conference will be held September 2-3, 2004 at Howard Pacific Green Bay in Taipei. Sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP), ROCLING is the most historied and comprehensive conference focused on computational linguistics, speech processing, and related areas in Taiwan. ROCLING XVI will be hosted by Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. The conference will feature invited lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, and lecture and poster sessions and two workshops: Workshop on Intelligent Web Technologies and Student Workshop.

Topics of Interest

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished researches on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to the following topic areas.

(a) cognitive linguistics

(l) parsing/generation

(b) discourse modeling

(m) phonetics/phonology

(c) document database/large corpora

(n) quantitative/qualitative linguistics

(d) electronic dictionaries

(o) speech analysis/synthesis

(e) information retrieval

(p) speech recognition/understanding

(f) language understanding

(q) spoken dialog systems

(g) language processing over Internet

(r) spoken language processing

(h) machine translation

(s) syntax/semantics

(i) NLP and educational applications

(t) Web information extraction

(j) morphology

(u) Web corpora

(k) computer assisted language learning

(v) others

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than 25 A4-sized pages in pdf or MS Word format. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Prospective authors without web access should contact the Program Committee Co-Chair (whm@iis.sinica.edu.tw) before the submission deadline. The submitted papers should be written in either Chinese or English, and in single column, double-spaced format. The first page of the submitted paper should bear the items of paper title, author name, affiliation and email address. All these items should be properly centered on the top, with a short abstract of the paper following.

Best Paper Award

The best paper will be selected and announced at ROCLING XVI.

Important Dates

Paper submission due:

July 12, 2004 (Extended!)

Notification of acceptance:

July 31, 2004

Final paper due:

August 15, 2004
Early registration due: August 16, 2004

 

Conference Program

 

Sponsors

 

Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)

Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

National Languages Committee, Ministry of Education

IEEE

SUNPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Behavior Design Corp.

Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories

ITRI-The Computer & Communications Research Labs (CCL)

Institute For Information Industry

Inventec Besta Co., Ltd.

Delta Electronics, Inc.

 

Conference Chairs

 

Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica

Chin-Chuan Cheng, Academia Sinica

 

Program Committee

 

Contact Us

 

For registration and accommodation, please contact:

    Qi Huang

    Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

    Tel: +886-2-2788-3799 ext. 1502

    Email: jessie@hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw

 

For general queries, please contact:

    Hsin-Min Wang
    Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Nankang 115, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

     Tel: +886-2-2788-3799 ext. 1714

    Email: whm@iis.sinica.edu.tw