Call For Workshop Proposals

COLING 2012, the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, is organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), at IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India), from 8-15 December 2012. The conference is organized under the umbrella of International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).COLING 2012 invite proposals for workshops to be held in IIT Bombay. We solicit proposals on all aspects of natural language processing and computational linguistics. The workshop will be held on 8th and 9th December, 2012 (Pre-conference workshops) and 15th December, 2012 (Post-conference workshops).

Proposals will be reviewed by the workshop chairs that will make the final decision about the selection of proposals.

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 (half day, one day, one and a half day or two days), and an estimate of the number of attendees.
3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organizers, 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 agreed.
5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.
6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.

The committee will review the quality of the workshop proposals. Once the reviews are completed, the workshop chairs will assign workshops to the proposers.

Please submit proposals in plain text in the body of an email to the workshop organizers (coling2012.workshop@gmail.com) on or before June 15, 2012.

The subject line should be: "COLING 2012: Workshop Proposal".

Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will occur on 15th July 2012.

TIMELINES FOR WORKSHOP

June 15, 2012	Workshop proposal deadline
July 15, 2012	Notification of acceptance/rejection
Sept 30, 2012	Paper submission deadline
Oct 31 , 2012	Paper accept/reject notification
Nov 15, 2012	Camera ready paper due
Dec 8-9, 2012	Pre-conference workshops
Dec 15, 2012	Post-conference workshops

WORKSHOP CHAIR(S)

• • Laurent Besacier, Professeur à l'Université J. Fourier, HDR, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, équipe GETALP
• Email: Laurent.Besacier@imag.fr

Other member(s):
Kashyap Popat, Masters Student, CSE Dept, IIT Bombay
Email: kan.pop@gmail.com
Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, CSE Dept, IIT Bombay, ganesh@cse.iitb.ac.in

Please send inquiries concerning COLING 2012 workshop to: coling2012.workshop@gmail.com

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