The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
COLING 2016
Location: 
Osaka International Convention Center
Sunday, 11 December 2016 to Friday, 16 December 2016
Country: 
Japan
Contact Email: 
City: 
Osaka

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COLING 2016
The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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December 11-16, 2016
Osaka, Japan.

http://coling2016.anlp.jp/

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased
to announce the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING 2016), in Osaka, Japan, at the Osaka International Convention Center
(OICC) (located in Nakanoshima in the center of Osaka).

ABOUT COLING
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The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. The
conference
is held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates.
The 1st conference was held in New York, 1965. Since then, the conference
has developed into one of the premier Natural Language Processing
conferences
worldwide. The last five conferences were held in Sydney (COLING -­ ACL
2006),
Manchester (COLING 2008), Beijing (COLING 2010), Mumbai (COLING 2012), and
Dublin (COLING 2014).

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.

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SUBMISSION TIMELINE
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Workshops and Tutorials:

22nd January, 2016: Call for Workshop and Tutorial proposals
22nd April, 2016: Workshop and Tutorial proposals submission
6th May, 2016: Workshop and Tutorial acceptance notification

Main Conference:

(Full papers)
June, 2016: Opening of the submission website
July 15th, 2016: Paper submission deadline
September 2-5, 2016: Author response period
September 19, 2016: Author notification
October 10, 2016: Camera-ready PDF due

(Demo papers)
August 2016: Opening of the submission website
August 26, 2016: Paper submission deadline
September 30, 2016: Author notification
October 14, 2016: Camera-ready PDF due

November 30, 2016: Official proceedings publication date
December 11-16, 2016: Main conference

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COLING 2016 CHAIRS
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General Chair:

Nicoletta Calzolari

Program Co-Chairs:

Yuji Matsumoto

Rashmi Prasad

Local Co-Chairs:

Eiichiro Sumita

Takenobu Tokunaga

Sadao Kurohashi

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Key-Sun Choi

Monica Monachini

Yusuke Miyao

Demo Chair:

Hideo Watanabe

Tutorial Co-Chairs:

Marcello Federico

Akiko Aizawa

Publication Co-Chairs:

Hitoshi Isahara

Masao Utiyama

Sponsorship Co-Chairs:

Satoshi Sekine

Su Jian

Patrick Pantel

Chengqing Zong

Ralf Steinberger

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Srinivas Bangalore

Dekai Wu

António Branco

Advisor to the Local Committee:

John Judge

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CONTACT
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coling2016 [at] anlp.jp