ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
- Conference
For the first time, the flagship conferences of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) --the ACL and IJCNLP -- are jointly organized as a single event. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. ACL-IJCNLP 2009 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and pre- and post-conference workshops. The conference invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word segmentation
- Syntax and Parsing
- Grammar induction/development
- Corpus-based parsers
- Mathematical linguistics, grammatical formalisms
- Semantics
- Lexical semantics
- Ontological semantics
- Formal semantics & logic
- Word sense disambiguation
- Semantic role labeling
- Textual entailment & paraphrasing
- Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics
- Language generation
- Summarization
- Machine translation
- Information retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Question Answering
- Text mining and Natural language processing applications
- With vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical or legal text
- On noisy unstructured text, such as emails, blogs, sms
- Spoken language processing
- Statistical and machine learning methods
- Corpus-based language modeling
- Knowledge acquisition
- Formalisms and Metrics
- Language resources and Evaluation
- Lexicon and ontology development
- Development of Treebank, proposition bank, timebank, etc.
- Evaluation metrics, User studies
- Science of annotation
- Feb 22, 2009 Full paper submissions due;
- Apr 12, 2009 Full paper notification of acceptance;
- Apr 26, 2009 Short paper submissions due;
- May 17, 2009 Camera-ready full papers due;
- May 31, 2009 Short Paper notification of acceptance;
- Jun 7, 2009 Camera-ready short papers due;
- Aug 2-7, 2009 ACL-IJCNLP 2009

