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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Sorry for multiple postings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>Call for Papers<br>COLING 2012<br>The 24</b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>th</span> International Conference on Computational Linguistics<br>December 8 - 15, 2012<br>Mumbai, India<br><a href="http://www.coling2012-iitb.org">http://www.coling2012-iitb.org</a></b><br><br>The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 24<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>th</span> International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), at IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India).<br>We look forward to welcoming you to the home of the world's first computational linguist, Panini.<br>COLING will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation.<br>The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.<br>We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research, on all theoretical and practical aspects of computational linguistics. <br><br><b>Topics of Interest </b><br>COLING 2012 solicits papers, posters and demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to:<br>1. Indian language technology<br>2. Underresourced languages<br>3. Morphology & POS tagging<br>4. Grammar and formalisms<br>5. Parsing<br>6. Semantics<br>7. Pragmatics<br>8. Coreference resolution<br>9. Ontologies and terminology<br>10. Textual entailment<br>11. Resources and annotation<br>12. Psychological and neurological modelling<br>13. Empirical machine translation<br>14. Expert or hybrid machine translation<br>15. Hybrid man+machine architectures & human factors<br>16. Information retrieval<br>17. Summarization<br>18. Named Entity recognition<br>19. Word Sense Disambiguation<br>20. Sentiment and text classification<br>21. Information & content extraction, text mining<br>22. Question answering<br>23. Speech recognition and synthesis<br>24. Software internationalization & localization<br>25. Deployment of NLP-based applications, software integration & quality<br><br><b>Instructions to Authors </b><br>1. Three communication formats: full papers (14 A5 sized pages with any number of reference pages), short papers (8 A5 sized pages with any number of reference pages) and demo papers (6 A5 sized pages with any number of reference pages).<br>2. Three presentation formats: Oral for full paper, Poster for short paper, Demo.<br>3. Papers are in English. However, if an author so wishes s/he may add elements in another language (L2): a title, an abstract and keywords on the first page, and if s/he wishes, 2 pages (a synopsis) in L2, beginning on page 2. Such papers will have 14+2 (or 8+2, or 6+2) pages, plus any number of pages for reference. <br>4. AT SUBMISSION TIME, PLEASE ANONYMISE everywhere, REPLACING NAMES BY DUMMIES LIKE John DOE_1, Jack DOE_2.<br>5. Papers must conform to official COLING 2012 style guidelines (LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates given on the web site).<br>6. Submission and reviewing will be on-line, managed by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is PDF. Supplementary material- if any, in the form of tools or resources- must be in the form of a single .zip or a .tgz archive file with a maximum size of 10MB; otherwise there are no constraints on its format. Submissions, together with all supplementary material, must be uploaded on the START system by the submission deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible (especially if they contain large supplementary material files).<br><br>The link for the "Call For Papers" is <a href="http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/call_for_papers.php">http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/call_for_papers.php</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><pre><span lang=IT>-- <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT>FLaReNet Coordination<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT>Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli"<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT>Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT>Area della Ricerca di Pisa<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT>Via Giuseppe Moruzzi Nš 1<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=IT>I-56124 Pisa<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=FR>ITALY<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=FR>Phone: [+39] 050 315 2870/2873/3166/2852/2836/2846<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=FR>Fax: [+39] 050 315 2839<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span lang=FR>e-Mail: </span><a href="mailto:flarenet_coordination@ilc.cnr.it"><span lang=FR>flarenet_coordination@ilc.cnr.it</span></a><span lang=FR><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre>Web: <a href="http://www.flarenet.eu">http://www.flarenet.eu</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></body></html>