FAQ for Submissions

Call for Papers

COLING 2012
The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
December 8 - 15, 2012
Mumbai, India
www.coling2012-iitb.org

The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), at IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India). We look forward to welcoming you to the home of the world's first computational linguist, Panini. COLING will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers (oral presentations), short papers (poster presentations), demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research, on all theoretical and practical aspects of computational linguistics.

TOPICS OF INTEREST COLING 2012 solicits papers, posters and demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

1. Indian language technology
2. Underresourced languages
3. Morphology & POS tagging
4. Grammar and formalisms
5. Parsing
6. Semantics
7. Discourse and pragmatics
8. Coreference resolution
9. Ontologies and terminology
10. Textual entailment
11. Resources and annotation
12. Psychological and neurological modelling
13. Empirical machine translation
14. Expert or hybrid machine translation
15. Hybrid man+machine architectures & human factors
16. Information retrieval
17. Summarization
18. Named Entity recognition
19. Word Sense Disambiguation
20. Sentiment and text classification
21. Information & content extraction, text mining
22. Question answering
23. Speech recognition and synthesis
24. Software internationalization & localization
25. Deployment of NLP-based applications, software integration & quality
26. Natural Language Generation

Instructions to Authors

1. Three communication formats: full papers (14 A5 sized pages with any number of reference pages), short papers (8 A5 sized pages with any number of reference pages) and demo papers (6 A5 sized pages with any number of reference pages).
2. Three presentation formats: Oral for full paper, Poster for short paper, Demo.
3. Papers are in English. However, if an author so wishes s/he may add elements in another language (L2): a title, an abstract and keywords on the first page, and if s/he wishes, 2 pages (a synopsis) in L2, beginning on page 2. Such papers will have 14+2 (or 8+2, or 6+2) pages, plus any number of pages for reference.
4. AT SUBMISSION TIME, PLEASE ANONYMISE everywhere, REPLACING NAMES BY DUMMIES LIKE John DOE_1, Jack DOE_2.
5. Papers must conform to official COLING 2012 style guidelines (LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates given on the web site).
6. Submission and reviewing will be on-line, managed by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is PDF. Supplementary material - if any, in the form of tools or resources - must be in the form of a single .zip or a .tgz archive file with a maximum size of 10MB; otherwise there are no constraints on its format. Submissions, together with all supplementary material, must be uploaded on the START system by the submission deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible (especially if they contain large supplementary material files).
    » LINK TO THE CALL FOR PAPERS: www.coling2012-iitb.org/call_for_papers.php
    » LINK TO THE SUBMISSION SITE: www.softconf.com/coling2012/papers/

COLING 2012 Style Files

LaTeX

Microsoft Word

Libre Office

Important Dates

• 25th July, 2012: opening of the submission website
• 25th August, 2012: paper Submission deadline
  => deadline extended to 31st August, 2012 (23:59 Pacific time, GMT -7)
• 15th October, 2012: paper accept/reject notification
• 1st November, 2012: camera ready paper due
• 10th to 14th December, 2012: main conference

Visa Requirements
All foreign nationals intending to participate in the Congress/ meeting, except those of Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives, are required to obtain an Indian VISA. There is no provision for 'VISA on Arrival' in India.

For details, refer to http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf & http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQ-TVisa170510.pdf

In case of difficulties, please get in touch with the conference secretariat at yuvraj@cimglobal.net

Also read the Visa on the left panel of this website

Conference Secretariat		Professional Conference Organizer and Travel Manager:
Organizing Chair: Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Bombay, India E-mail: pb@cse.iitb.ac.in Main office: Kanwal Rekhi Building Tel: +91-22-2576 4729 / 7901. Fax: +91-22-2572 0022 Old CSE Building: Tel: +91-22-2576 7701, Fax: +91-22-2572 0290		604, Antariksh, Makwana Road, Off Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (E) Mumbai - 400 059 - India Tel: +91 22 4048 1777 Fax: +91 22 4048 1709 Mr. Yuvraj Mob: +91 8879030010 Email: yuvraj@cimglobal.net