2014Q3 Reports: COLING 2014

COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August 2014

COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, will take place 23-29 August 2014 in the Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. The COLING conference (http://www.coling-2014.org/) is organised under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) by the Centre for Global Intelligent Content (CNGL) and the National Centre for Language Technologies (NCLT) at Dublin City University.

The main COLING 2014 conference presents a high quality scientific programme with 137 accepted oral paper presentations and 80 posters (http://www.coling-2014.org/accepted-papers.php), out of a total of 705 main conference submissions (31% acceptance rate in total).

A separate Demo-Track features 75 NLP demos and demo posters.

Invited talks include

- Mary Harper (IARPA): "Learning from 26 languages: Program Management and Science in the Babel Program"

- Ted Gibson (MIT): "Language for communication: Language as rational inference"

- Martin Kay (Stanford University and Saarland University): "Does a Computational Linguist have to be a Linguist?"

- Qun Liu (Dublin City University): "Syntax mapping and standard adaptation between languages"

COLING 2014 will host 6 Pre-Conference Tutorials (http://www.coling-2014.org/tutorials.php) on

- Dependency Parsing: Past, Present, and Future: Wenliang Chen, Zhenghua Li and Min Zhang

- Using Neural Networks for Modelling and Representing Natural Languages: Thomas Mikolov

- Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking: Roberto Navigli and Andrea Moro

- Selection Bias, Label Bias, and Bias in Ground Truth: Anders Søgaard, Barbara Plank and Dirk Hovy

- Automated Grammatical Error Correction for Language Learners: Joel Tetreault and Claudia Leacock

- Biomedical/clinical NLP: Ozlem Uzuner and Meliha Yetisgen

and a total of 22 Pre-Conference Workshops (http://www.coling-2014.org/workshops.php), including

- SemEval-2014: Semantic Evaluation Exercises - International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)

- The third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM-2014)

- Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP 2014)

- The 3rd Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'14)

- First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages (SPMRL-SANCL)

- The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VIII)

- 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP)

- The Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW)

- Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)

- CompuTerm 2014. 4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology

- Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Technical Language (SADAATL)

- The Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT

- VarDial: Workshop on Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

- The AHA!-Workshop on Information Discovery in Text (AHA!)

- Automatic Text Simplification - Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society (ATS-MA)

- The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA)

- The Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing (LG-LP 2014)

- Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE)

- Fourth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014)

COLING 2014 is sponsored by Baidu, ebay, Microsoft and Symantec.

Registration for COLING 2014 is open at http://www.coling-2014.org/registration.php Early Registration ends 1st July 2014.

The COLING 2014 Organisation Team at CNGL, NCLT and DCU, the PC Chairs Junichi Tsuji (Microsoft Research Asia) and Jan Hajic (Charles University Prague), the General Chairs Andy Way (DCU) and Josef van Genabith (DFKI, University of Saarland) and Local Chairs Cara Greene (DCU) and John Judge (DCU) are looking forward to welcoming you at COLING 2014 in Dublin in August!