[LFG] COLING2016 Workshops: Call for proposals

[António Branco]

COLING2016 – Call for Workshop Proposals


Proposal Submission Deadline: 22nd April 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 06th May 2016


The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
December 11th -16th, 2016 - Osaka, Japan.
http://coling2016.anlp.jp/




The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is
pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction
with the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
COLING 2016 will take place at the Osaka International Convention
Center (OICC) from 11th - 16th December 2016.

COLING covers 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. Oral and poster presentations of full papers
will not be distinguished in the proceedings of the conference.

There will be pre-conference workshop sessions on 11th - 12th December
2016. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of the NLP/CL
community are invited to submit Workshop proposals for review.


WORKSHOP FORMAT

COLING workshops are aimed at raising discussions in a very interactive
way, thus creating a breeding ground for open questions, novel and
emerging ideas in NLP/CL in a less formal and possibly more focused way
than the conference itself. It is expected that workshops will contain
ample time for general discussion and engagement by all participants -
not just those presenting papers. Workshops that foster collaboration,
discussion, group problem-solving and community-building initiatives
are particularly encouraged. Workshop organizers are free to decide
the best format of their workshop.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Proposals for workshops should contain:

1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic
and content.

2. The desired workshop length (one day, two days or a half day)
and an estimate of the number of attendees.

3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses
of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research
interests and areas of expertise.

4. A list of potential members of the program committee, with
an indication of which members have already signed up. Organizers
should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially
for recurring workshops) in order to ensure a sufficient number
of reviewers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time,
and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.

5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.

6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.

7. An indication of whether posters are likely to be included
in the workshop program.

Workshop submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into
a Call for Workshop Papers.


SUBMISSION DATE

Please submit proposals in plain text in the body of an email to
the workshop organisers (workshop at coling2016.anlp.jp)
no later than April 22nd, 2016, 23:59:59 UTC/GMT.

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur
no later than May 06th, 2016.

Organisers of accepted workshops will be responsible for publicising
and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing
the camera-ready workshop proceedings.

It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular,
failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to
the exclusion of the workshop from the unified author indexes. Workshop
organisers cannot accept for publication papers that will be (or have
been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own
policies on simultaneous submission and review. The COLING 2016
organisers will set the workshop fees, provide rooms, equipment,
technical support, coffee breaks.


WORKSHOP TIMELINE

- 22nd April 2016: Workshop proposals due

- 6th  April 2016: Notification of workshop acceptances

- 14th October 2016: Camera-ready deadline for workshop proceedings

- 11th - 12th December 2016: COLING Workshops


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Key-Sun Choi, School of Computing – KAIST
Yusuke Miyao, National Institute of Informatics – Japan
Monica Monachini, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A Zampolli” – CNR