NLPCC 2020 welcomes original technical papers on new concepts, innovative research, systems, standards, testing & evaluation, applications, and industrial case studies related to NLP & CC. Authors are invited to submit complete and unpublished papers in English or Chinese in the following categories:
◇ Applications/tools
◇ Empirical/data-driven approaches
◇ Resources and evaluation
◇ Theoretical
◇ Survey papers
Papers currently under review in other conferences or journals are acceptable; however, commitment to the conference must be made upon acceptance.
Topic
Relevant topics of NLPCC 2020 include, but are not limited to, the following:
◇ Computational Social Science and Social Media
◇ Dialogue and Interactive Systems
◇ Discourse and Pragmatics
◇ Ethics and Privacy
◇ Information Extraction
◇ Information Retrieval and Text Mining
◇ Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
◇ Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
◇ Machine Learning for NLP
◇ Machine Translation and Multilinguality
◇ Multimodal Language Processing
◇ NLP Applications
◇ NLP for Minority and Low-resource Languages
◇ Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
◇ Question Answering
◇ Resources and Evaluation
◇ Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
◇ Semantic Web, Knowledge Base, and Knowledge Graph
◇ Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
◇ Speech Processing and Spoken Language Understanding
◇ Summarization and Generation
◇ Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Important Dates
◇ Submission Deadlines:
◇ Notification (both Tracks): July 30, 2020
◇ Tutorials: October 14-16, 2020
◇ Main Conference: October 17-18, 2020
All deadlines are 23:59 PM, Beijing.
Submission Guidelines
The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer LNAI series (EI & ISTP indexed, for English papers), and the ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis (EI & Scopus indexed, for Chinese papers), respectively. English submissions should follow the LNCS formatting instructions, without exceeding twelve (12) pages; The submissions must therefore be formatted in accordance with the standard Springer style sheets. Submissions in Chinese should follow the formatting instructions of the ACTA Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, without exceeding eight (8) pages in A4 (210 × 297 mm) size.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the submission website. Email submissions will not be accepted. English papers should be submitted to the Main Track (via SoftConf system, the link is coming soon), and Chinese papers should be submitted to the Chinese Track (via SoftConf system, the link is coming soon). Authors of Chinese submissions are required to provide Chinese titles in the submission system.
All submissions should be in PDF format.
Events
Several workshops will be held in conjunction with NLPCC, including student workshop, evaluation workshop, and technical workshops. The Call for Papers for the workshops will be published soon. Please stay tuned.
All papers accepted by NLPCC 2019 workshops will be published in a combined volume of the NLPCC 2019 Proceedings.
Organizers
General Chairs: Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh), Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University)
PC Chairs: Xiaodan Zhu (Queen's University), Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Student Workshop Chairs: Jin-Ge Yao (Microsoft Research Asia), Xin Zhao (Renmin University of China)
Evaluation Chairs: Shoushan Li (Soochow University), Yunbo Cao (Tencent)
Technical Workshop Chair: Xiaodong He (JD.COM)
Tutorial Chairs: Xipeng Qiu (Fudan University), Rui Xia (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
Publication Chairs: Yu Hong (Soochow University), Ruifang He (Tianjin University)
Journal Coordinator: Yunfang Wu (Peking University)
Conference Handbook Chair: Yuxiang Jia (Zhengzhou University)
Sponsorship Chairs: Dongyan Zhao (Peking University), Derek Wong (University of Macau)
Publicity Chairs: Wei Lu (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Haofen Wang (Tongji University)
Organization Chairs: Hongying Zan (Zhengzhou University), Xiaojun Wan (Peking University), Zhumin Chen (Shandong University)
Treasurer: Yajing Zhang (Soochow University)
Webmaster: Hui Liu (Peking University)