[HPSG-L] PACLIC 33: First Call for Papers

[Ryo Otoguro]

PACLIC 33: The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Date: 13-15 September, 2019
Venue: Future University Hakodate, Japan
Website: https://jaslli.org/paclic33/

The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 33) will be held in Hakodate, Japan on 13–15 September, 2019. The PACLIC 33 will be the latest installment of our long standing collaborative efforts among theoretical and computational linguists in the Pacific-Asia region for providing an opportunity to share their findings and interests in the formal and empirical study of languages. Paper submissions of original and unpublished research are invited on all aspects of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Papers exemplifying synergy of multi-disciplinary approaches on the construction of language resources and system development that would assist language learning are particularly encouraged. Topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

Language studies

- Corpus linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Language acquisition
- Language learning
- Language, mind, and culture
- Language theory
- Morphology
- Phonology
- Pragmatics/Sociolinguistics
- Semantics
- Spoken language processing
- Syntax
- Typology
- Information Processing and Computational Applications

Cognitive modeling of language

- Dialogue and interactive systems
- Digital humanities
- Information retrieval/extraction
- Language resources
- Machine learning/Data mining
- Machine translation
- Multi-linguality in NLP
- NLP applications
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Social media
- Text classification/summarization
- Word segmentation

Keynote speakers:

Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Junichi Tsujii (Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST)

Publications:

Conference proceedings will be published in open-access digital formats. Past PACLIC proceeding papers have been indexed in Scopus (since PACLIC 19 in 2005) and listed in ACL Anthology. According to Google Scholar, PACLIC currently has an h5-index of 10 and the h5-median is 13. For details, see the following page:

https://jaslli.org/paclic-steering/past/

Information for authors:

Submissions should describe substantial, original, and unpublished work written in readable and plain English and may not exceed 8 pages, excluding references and appendices. Accepted papers will be presented in either regular sessions or poster sessions as determined by the program committee. Each author may only have one accepted paper as the first author. Authors are required to declare upon submission any multiple submission(s) or intention to submit to multiple conferences — failure to do so may lead to immediate disqualification of the paper.

Paper submission deadline:

23:59 (GMT), 10 May, 2019

Submission page:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paclic33

Enquiry:

paclic33 at gmail dot com