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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">1st (Preliminary) Call for Papers - Coling 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">August 23 - 29, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin, Ireland, European Union). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Most of the local organizers
are from CNGL, Ireland’s Centre for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the Centre for Next Generation Localization), which embodies the leading position of Ireland in the global localization/internationalization business, a strong focus on language technologies
including machine translation, computational linguistics and natural language processing, as well as on intelligent management, search, retrieval, transformation and adaptation of content.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full
papers (presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">TOPICS OF INTEREST
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited
to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- models of communication by language;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- lexical semantics and ontologies;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- generation and summarization;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base linking;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- machine learning for natural language;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- modeling of discourse and dialogue;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- applications, tools and language resources;
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">- system evaluation methodology and metrics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights, ?
to technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data, ? and/or contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors made in the experiments described, if
possible linking them to the presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">PAPER REQUIREMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work,
and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest
to the attendees. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">REVIEWING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members
of the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by invited reviewers.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this
time in electronic form only. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional
space in the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming from reviewers?comments. Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will recommend
an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented orally vs. as posters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information
on the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as usual. Papers must conform to official Coling 2014 style guidelines, which will be available on the Coling 2014 website. Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START
system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is in Adobe’s PDF. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions
at Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If your employer is taking steps to protect
intellectual property related to your paper, please inform them about this timing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to plan for depositing language resources and other data as well
as tools used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of language resources and/or repositories
of tools (such as META-SHARE, Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge, CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open possibility (through
the START system). The details will be given in the submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations in February. Accepted papers on demonstrations will also be included in the proceedings.
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">January, 2014: Opening of the submission website<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">May 9-12, 2014: Author response period<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">May 23, 2014: Author notification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">August 25-29, 2014: Main conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Program Committee Co-chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Junichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jan Hajic (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Scientific Advisory Board members<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Michael Picheny (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Donia Scott (Unviersity of Sussex, United Kingdom)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">1. Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Emily M. Bender (University of Washington, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Igor Boguslavsky (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">2. Machine Learning for CL and NLP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">3. Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Philippe Blache (CNRS & CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ted Gibson (MIT, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">4. Morphology, Word Segmentation, Tagging and Chunking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Reut Tsarfaty (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Yue Zhang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">5. Syntax, Grammar Induction, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ryan McDonald (Google, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">6. Lexical Semantics and Ontologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">7. Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">8. Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nicolas Asher (CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, France)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">9. Natural Language Generation and Summarization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Albert Gatt (University of Malta, Malta)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">10. Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">11. Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">12. Information Retrieval and Question Answering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Siddharth Patwardhan (IBM Research, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">13. Information Extraction and Database Linking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">James Curran (University of Sydney, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Seung-won Hwang (Postec, Korea)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">14. Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Heyan Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Guillaume Jacquet (Joint Research Centre, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">15. Multimodal and Natural Language Interfaces and Dialog Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">David Traum (University of Southern California, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">16. Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Alex Potamianos (National Technical University Crete, Greece)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Phillip Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK / Johns Hopkins University, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">19. Languages with less resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Rajeev Sangal (IIT Banaras Hindu University, India)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jesús Cardeñosa (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jing-Shin Chang (National Chi Nan University,Taiwan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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