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<div>COLING 2014 Call for System Demonstrations</div>
<div>The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 23 - 29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland</div>
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<div>http://www.coling-2014.org</div>
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<div>Important dates</div>
<div>19 May 2014: Paper submission deadline</div>
<div>23 June 2014: Author notification</div>
<div>7 July 2014: Camera-ready paper submission deadline</div>
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<div>The COLING 2014 Demonstration Programme Committee invites proposals for system demonstrations. The demonstration programme is part of the main conference programme and aims at showcasing working systems that apply a wide range of conference topics. The
session will provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from implementing NLP systems, and to obtain feedback from expert users.</div>
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<div>COLING 2014 will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 23-29 August 2014.</div>
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<div>The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. It is held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and
is a major international event for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of Computational Linguistics and NLP.</div>
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<div>Topics of interest</div>
<div>COLING 2014 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to:</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>models of communication by language;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lexical semantics and ontologies;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>word segmentation, tagging and chunking;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>parsing, both syntactic and deep;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>generation and summarisation;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base linking;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>machine learning for natural language;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>modelling of discourse and dialogue;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>applications, tools and language resources;</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>system evaluation methodology and metrics.</div>
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<div>Submissions</div>
<div>The submissions should address the following questions:</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What is the problem the proposed system addresses?</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Why is the system important and what is its impact?</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What is the novelty of the used approach/technology?</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Who is the target audience?</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>How does the system work?</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>How does it compare with existing systems?</div>
<div>●<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>How is the system licenced?</div>
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<div>The maximum submission length is 4 pages (including references). Papers shall be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING 2014 style guidelines available on the conference website. The anonymisation of submissions is optional. If authors
choose to remain anonymous, it is their responsibility to take every measure to conceal potentially identifying information.</div>
<div>http://www.coling-2014.org/instructions-for-authors.php</div>
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<div>Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system:</div>
<div>https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/demos/</div>
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<div>The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings in a dedicated volume for demonstration systems.</div>
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<div>Demonstration chairs</div>
<div>Lamia Tounsi, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland</div>
<div>Rafal Rak, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, UK</div>
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<div>Programme Committee</div>
<div>Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc.</div>
<div>Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe</div>
<div>Ann Bies, Linguistic Data Consortium</div>
<div>William Black, University of Manchester</div>
<div>Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University</div>
<div>Chris Brew, Nuance Communications</div>
<div>Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service</div>
<div>Vittorio Castelli, IBM</div>
<div>Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, IBM</div>
<div>Léa Deleris, IBM</div>
<div>Martin Emms, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div>Guillaume Gravier, IRISA & INRIA Rennes</div>
<div>Keith Hall, Google Research</div>
<div>Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service</div>
<div>Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo</div>
<div>Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin</div>
<div>Daxin Jiang, Microsoft STC-A</div>
<div>John Kelleher, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div>Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd</div>
<div>BalaKrishna Kolluru, Toshiba</div>
<div>Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div>Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div>Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service</div>
<div>Hilary McDonald, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div>Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong</div>
<div>Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs</div>
<div>Tony O'Dowd, KantanMT</div>
<div>Florian Pinel, IBM</div>
<div>Johann Roturier, Symantec</div>
<div>Andrew Rowley, University of Manchester</div>
<div>Frédérique Segond, Viseo Research</div>
<div>Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Services</div>
<div>Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology</div>
<div>Xinglong Wang, Brandwatch</div>
<div>Jason Williams, Microsoft Research</div>
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