31.2216, Calls: Italian; Comp Ling/Italy

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Subject: 31.2216, Calls: Italian; Comp Ling/Italy

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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:40:57
From: JOHANNA MONTI [johmonti at gmail.com]
Subject: CLIC-IT 2020 Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Full Title: CLIC-IT 2020 Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: CLIC-IT 2020 

Date: 01-Mar-2021 - 03-Mar-2021
Location: Bologna, Italy 
Contact Person: Johanna Monti
Meeting Email: jmonti at unior.it
Web Site: http://clic2020.ilc.cnr.it/it/home/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it, aims at
establishing a reference forum for the Italian community of researchers
working in the fields of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language
Processing (NLP). CLiC-it promotes and disseminates high-level, original
research on all aspects of automatic language processing, both written and
spoken, and targets state-of-the-art theoretical results, experimental
methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives.

The spirit of the conference is inclusive. In the conviction that the
complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it
intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive
Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation,
Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it is open to
contributions on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian.

The seventh edition of CLiC-it will be held in Bologna, on November 30 –
December 2, 2020. The conference will be followed by EVALITA 2020
(http://www.evalita.it/2020), the 7th evaluation campaign of Natural Language
Processing and speech tools for the Italian language. Both CLiC-it and EVALITA
are initiatives of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC
— http://www.ai-lc.it). We know, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation
is uncertain, but we have to think positively, think about rebuilding and
reinforcing the community. The conference will still be held, but will be
postponed to March 2021. 

Second Call for Papers: 

*** NEW DATES ***
 1-3 March 2021 - Bologna

The Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it, aims at
establishing a reference forum for the Italian community of researchers
working in the fields of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language
Processing (NLP). 

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh edition of CLiC-it, which is planned
to be held in Bologna, has been postponed to 1-3 March 2021. 

Requirements: 

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the
following areas:
 - Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation
 - Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering
 - Language Resources and Evaluation
 - Language and Cognition
 - Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP
 - Machine Learning for NLP
 - Machine Translation and Multilinguality
 - Morphology and Syntax Processing
 - NLP for Digital Humanities
 - NLP for Web and Social Media
 - Pragmatics and Creativity
 - Research and Industrial NLP Applications
 - Semantics and Knowledge Representation
 - Spoken Language Processing and Automatic Speech Understanding
  - Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding

Research Communications: 
We are also favouring a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers that
have been submitted and accepted elsewhere in 2020. If you are the author of a
paper accepted at a major international CL conference or journal in 2020, you
can present your work at CLiC-it 2020 in the form of short research
communication, within a dedicated session at the conference. Research
communications will not be published in the proceedings, but are mostly
intended to enforce dissemination of excellence in research within the Italian
CL community.

Awards: 
In order to award the work of young researchers, the title of “best paper”
will be attributed to the best papers in different research areas with a
Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the
conference. The awarded authors will be invited to submit an extended version
of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL).

To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of
our field and with the endorsement of AILC, we are conferring a prize for the
best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted
at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 euro plus free membership
to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it, where the
author will have the chance to present her/his thesis. The complete call is
available on the conference website under the path: “Calls > AILC Master
Thesis Award”.

Important Dates: 
10/9/2020: New Paper submission deadline (it will not be postponed anymore!)
15/9/2020: Deadline for best master thesis proposals by supervisors.
10/10/2020: Notification to authors of reviewing outcome
25/10/2020: Camera ready version of accepted papers
1-3/3/2021: CLiC-it Conference in Bologna

People: 
Program co-chairs:
Felice Dell’Orletta (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A.Zampolli” –
CNR)
Johanna Monti (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”)
Fabio Tamburini (Università di Bologna)

For Submission Format and procedure:
http://clic2020.ilc.cnr.it/en/information-for-authors/

Conference website:
http://clic2020.ilc.cnr.it/

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