* The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37) *
* December 2-4, 2023 (deadline paper submission: July 16, 2023 AoE) *
* The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (China) *

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

Following the long tradition of PACLIC conferences, PACLIC 37 emphasizes the synergy of theoretical frameworks and processing of natural language, providing a forum for researchers from different fields to share and discuss progress in scientific studies, development and application of the topics related to the study of languages.

TOPICS

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Language Studies

o Clinical linguistics and language disorders

o Corpus linguistics

o Discourse Analysis

o Language Acquisition

o Language and Social Media

o Language Learning

o Language, Mind and Culture

o Linguistic Theories

o Morphology

o Multilingualism

o Phonology

o Pragmatics

o Semantics

o Sociolinguistics

o Spoken language processing

o Syntax

o Typology

- Information Processing and Computational Applications

o Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics

o Dialogue systems

o Digital Humanities

o Ethics in Natural Language Processing

o Information retrieval/extraction

o Interpretability of Natural Language Processing systems

o Language models

o Language resources

o Linguistic diversity

o Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

o Machine Translation

o Multimodality

o Natural Language Generation

o Natural Language Processing applications

o Sentiment Analysis

o Summarization

o Word segmentation

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus references and appendices. Submissions will be judged based on relevance, technical strength, significance and opportunities, and interest to the attendees. As the reviewing will be double-blind, authors must not indicate their names and affiliations while submitting their papers. Papers must be submitted through the Easy Chair Conference System: [URL COMING SOON].
Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the PACLIC 37 program committee. Papers in the proceedings of PACLIC have been indexed in Scopus since PACLIC 19 (2005). They are also listed in the ACL Anthology.
Double submissions with other conferences/workshops are allowed, but the authors are asked to declare it at submission time.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

The conference will only accept papers formatted according to the standard ACL templates (downloadable at: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/).

IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline of paper submission: July 16, 2023 (AoE) *
Notification: September 10, 2023
Camera-ready: October 1, 2023
Early bird registration: October 1, 2023
Conference: December 2-4, 2023

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS (To be completed)

Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Yasunari Harada (Waseda University)
Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University)
Emmanuele Chersoni (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Sophia Yat Mei Lee (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Sarah Chen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Yu-Yin Hsu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

CONTACT

paclic37@gmail.com