<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px;line-height:22.1000003814697px">[Apologies for the cross postings.]</span><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:14px"><font color="#000000"><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><b>ACL-IJCNLP 2015</b></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">====================================================</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Federation of Natural Language Processing</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Beijing, China, July 26-31</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><a href="http://acl2015.org/" target="_blank">http://acl2015.org</a></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">The Association for Computational Linguistics and the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing are pleased to announce that their joint meeting will take place in Beijing, China on July 26th to 31st, 2015. The conference invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated language processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted for the Transactions of the ACL journal (<a href="http://www.transacl.org/" target="_blank">http://www.transacl.org/</a>). Note that the official publication date for papers at ACL 2015 will be one week before the conference starts.</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">ACL-IJCNLP 2015 has the goal of a broad technical program. Thus, ACL-IJCNLP 2015 invites papers in the following categories:</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Applications/tools</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Empirical/data-driven approaches (submissions reporting negative results of sensible experiments are also welcome)</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Resources and evaluation</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Theoretical</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Survey papers</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">ACL 2015 will use review forms tailored to the type of submission.</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><b>TOPICS</b></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">====================================================</span><br></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Dialogue and Interactive Systems</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Discourse, Coreference and Pragmatics</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Information Retrieval</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Information Extraction and Text Mining</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Language and Vision</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Language Resources and Evaluation</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Lexical Semantics and Ontology</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of CL</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Machine Translation</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Mathematical Linguistics, Grammar Formalisms</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Multimodal NLP</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Multilinguality</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» NLP Applications and NLP-enabled Technology</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» NLP for the Web and Social Media</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Question Answering</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Semantics</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Spoken Language Processing</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for NLP</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Summarization and Generation</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Syntax and Parsing</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Tagging and Chunking</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Topic Models for Language Processing</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">====================================================</span><br></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Long papers</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Deadline for long paper submission: February 27, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Author response period: April 9-12, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Camera ready submission due: May 29, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Short papers</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Deadline for short paper submission: April 30, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Camera ready submission due: June 21, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">Tutorial Proposals</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Deadline for tutorial proposals submission: Jan 9, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Tutorial descriptions due: March 6, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">» Tutorial course material due: June 26, 2015</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px">All deadlines are 11:59PM Pacific Time.</span></div><div><span style="line-height:22.1000003814697px"><br></span></div><div><div><b> GENERAL CHAIR</b><br>» Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology<br>PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<br>» Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br>» Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies<br></div></div></font></div>
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