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Click to view 04/12/12:  Instructions for internet access inside IITB Campus.
1. Participants will be provided with registration kit containing following information about Internet access in IITB at the registration desk.
• A coupon containing username (LDAP id) and password for internet access.
• COLING USB stick containing all required manuals.
2. Configure "IITB-Wireless" network on your system by following instructions from network configuration manuals present in USB stick.
3. Configure proxy settings of system/browsers using proxy configuration manual provided in the USB. Connect to internet through browser by using username and password provided along with registration kit.

Click to view 20/11/12: Volunteer information kept on the home page (left panel).

14/11/12:    WS-16: Syntactic Typology and Syntactic Divergences of South Asian Languages (SALs) (2 half day) is cancelled

05/11/12:    Matters related to technical papers are looked after solely by the program chairs: Martin Kay: mjkay@stanford.edu, Christian Boitet: christian.boitet@imag.fr. Please write to them in case of any query.

31/10/12:    Deadline for New Demo Paper further shifted to 05/11 09:59h GMT-7 (17:59h in Paris or Prague)

Reason: some have a bad format, or are too long, or don't describe demo!
Other deadlines stay the same:

  • 05/11 23:59h GMT-7: FINAL SUBMISSIONS (camera-ready) of all submissions (including New Demo Papers).
  • 07/11 00:01h GMT-7: REGISTRATION OF AT LEAST 1 AUTHOR PER ACCEPTED SUBMISSION (Long / Poster / Demo).

31/10/12:    2 deadlines shifted by 48 hours due to hurricane Sandy

  • 05/11 23:59h GMT-7 for FINAL SUBMISSIONS (camera-ready) of all submissions (including New Demo Papers).
  • 03/11 23:59h GMT-7 for INITIAL SUBMISSIONS of New Demo Papers.
The deadline for registrations of authors is maintained (before 7/11):
  • 07/11 00:01h GMT-7: REGISTRATION OF AT LEAST 1 AUTHOR PER ACCEPTED SUBMISSION (Long / Poster / Demo).

25/10/12:    Notification letters have been sent from the START system by the PC Chair.
Submitting "New Demo Papers" is possible on START.

(BEWARE: messages concerning rejected papers had initially a subject "accepted...").

18/10/12:    Acceptance Results have been published on the Web
(BEWARE: errors corrected from 16/10, concerning papers rejected in Morphology but appearing as accepted).

18/10/12:    Participants desiring invitation letter for visa, should note that the invitation is subject to completing the registration. After registration the delegate will get the invitation letter in mail in a day. There is no need to write to the organizers separately for the visa invitation letter

12/10/12:    Online Registration and Offline Registration are active now

1-7/10/12:    "Rebuttal period" -- Reviewers can see their reviews, reviewers can discuss their reviews, 26*3 scored and ranked lists are prepared by areas (for long, short and demo papers) in view of the selection process.
01/10/12:    Programme Committee lists on the web site (Chairs, Area Chairs, and Reviewers with know affiliation)
07/10/12:    Registration Page available
20/09/12:    Pre-Registration Page available
02/09/12:    Submissions are closed
12/8/12:     Paper submission deadline EXTENDED by 12 hours to 1/9/12 11:59 Pacific Time (GMT-7)
12/8/12:     Paper submission deadline EXTENDED to 31/8 23:59 Pacific Time (GMT-7)

13/8/12: schedule of workshops and tutorials made more detailed

16/7/12: paper submission deadline announced on 25/8 at 23:59 Pacific Time (GMT-7)

COLING 2012 Website Live
The official website for COLING 2012 has been launched.
The URL is coling2012-iitb.org.

Devang Khakhar Patron of COLING 2012
Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay,
will be the patron of COLING 2012.

COLING 2012 in India
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) has awarded COLING 2012 to India.

We are trying to see if all the papers in the main conference and workshops can be indexed by the ACL Anthology

Schedule of Workshops and Tutorials

Note:

"The room allocation for a WS/Tutorial is tentative, it might change based on the number of registrants for that WS/Tutorial. Keep checking this page for any kind of updates."

Workshop organizers and Tutorial presenters are free to have their own program. However, they should be aligned with the 2 tea breaks (pre and post lunch) and the lunch break.
For now, the suggested timings are:
9:30 AM: Start                            11.30 AM: Tea (30 mins)                     1.30 PM: Lunch
2.30 PM: Restart                         4.30 PM: Tea (30 mins)                       6.00 PM: End of the day

* VMCC: Victor Menezes Convention Centre
  VMCC VMCC VMCC VMCC VMCC VMCC
8th December Tutorial-1: Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal Reasoning Tutorial-3: Multimodal Corpora Tutorial-5: Open-domain Conversations with Humanoid Robots   WS-4: SANLP-3 & South and Southeast Asian NLP (1)
Tutorial-2: Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP Tutorial-4: The Hindi/Urdu Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and Urdu NLP Tutorial-6: Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for NLP   WS-4: (2)
9th December WS-11: ML4HMT-12 WS and Shared Task WS-8: Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (1) WS-9: Information Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social Media Data (1) WS-6: 10th WS on Asian Language Resources (1) WS-15: Optimization Techniques for HLT WS-14: Question Answering for Complex Domains (1)
WS-13: Reordering for SMT WS-8: (2) WS-9: (2) WS-6: (2) WS-14: (2)
10th December
to
14th December
Main Conference
15th December WS-7: SAAIP 2012 -- Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (1) WS-3: Eye-tracking and NLP WS-1: Advances in discourse analysis... (1) WS-2: WTIM -- Advances in Text Input Methods (1) WS-5: CogALex-III (1) WS-10: Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)
WS-7: (2) WS-12: Speech and Language Processing Tools in Education WS-1: (2) WS-2: (2) WS-5: (2) WS-10: (2)

Tutorials

No Tutorial Name Instructors # half days Begin Description of Tutorials
1 Temporal Information Extraction and Shallow Temporal Reasoning
  • Prof. Dan Roth,
  • Prof. Heng Ji,
  • Taylor Cassidy,
  • Quang Do
1 Sa 8th, 9:30 am
2 Exploiting Web Data Sources for Advanced NLP Dr. Gerard de Melo 1 Sa 8th, 2:30 pm
3 Multimodal Corpora
  • Prof. Patrizia Paggio,
  • Prof. Dirk Heylen,
  • Prof. Costanza Navarretta
1 Sa 8th, 9:30 am
4 The Hindi/Urdu Treebank: New Frontiers in Hindi and Urdu Natural Language Processing
  • Prof. Owen Rambow,
  • Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma
  • Ashwini Vaidya
1 Sa 8th, 2:30 pm
5 Open-domain Conversations with Humanoid Robots
  • Prof. Kristiina Jokinen,
  • Prof Graham Wilcock
1 Sa 8th, 9:30 am
6 Revisiting Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for NLP
  • Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi,
  • Raghavendra Udupa
1 Sa 8th, 2:30 pm

Workshops

No Workshop Name Organizers # half days Begin Website
1 Advances in discourse analysis and its computational aspects Eva Hajicova 2 Sa 15th, 9:30 am
2 Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM 2)
  • Kalika Bali,
  • Monojit Choudhury,
  • Yoh Okuno
2 Sa 15th, 9:30 am
3 Eye-tracking and Natural Language Processing
  • Michael Carl,
  • Pushpak Bhattacharya,
  • Kamal Kumar Choudhary
1 Sa 15th, 9:30 am
4 3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (SANLP)
  • Virach Sornlertlamvanich
  • Abbas Malik
2 Sa 8th, 9:30 am
5 Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-III)
  • Michael Zock,
  • Reinhard Rapp
2 Sa 15th, 9:30 am
6 10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
  • Ruvan Weerasinghe,
  • Rachel Edita O. Roxas,
  • Virach Sornlertlamvanich,
  • Sarmad Hussain
4 Sa 8th, 9:30 am
7 2nd Workshop on Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP 2012)
  • Sivaji Bandyopadhyay,
  • Manabu Okumura
2 Sa 15th, 9:30 am
8 Sixth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data
  • Lipika Dey,
  • Daniel Lopresti,
  • Christoph Ringlstetter,
  • Shourya Roy,
  • L. Venkata Subramaniam
2 Su 9th, 9:30 am
9 Information Extraction & Entity Analytics on Social Media Data
  • Sriram Raghavan,
  • Ganesh Ramakrishnan
2 Su 9th, 9:30 am
10 Machine Translation and Parsing in Indian Languages (MTPIL-2012)
  • Radhika Mamidi,
  • Ranjani Parthasarathi,
  • Sobha Lalitha Devi,
  • Dipti Misra Sharma,
  • Joseph van Genabith
3 Sa 15th, 9:30 am
11 Second Workshop on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid MT (ML4HMT-12 WS and Shared Task)
  • Josef van Genabith,
  • Toni Badia,
  • Christian Federmann
1 Su 9th, 9:30 am
12 Speech and Language Processing Tools in Education
  • Radhika Mamidi,
  • Kishore Prahallad
1 Sa 15th, 2:30 pm
13 Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation
  • Karthik Visweswariah,
  • Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan,
  • Mitesh M. Khapra
1 Su 9th, 2:30 pm
14 Question Answering for Complex Domains
  • Nanda Kambhatla
  • Sachindra Joshi
  • Ganesh Ramakrishnan
  • Kiran Kate
  • Priyanka Agrawal
2 Su 9th, 9:30 am
15 First International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology
  • Pushpak Bhattacharyya,
  • Asif Ekbal,
  • Sriparna Saha,
  • Mark Johnson,
  • Diego Molla-Aliod
1 Su 9th, 9:30 am
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Dept. of Computer Science, IIT Bombay, India
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