The 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 29) will be held in Shanghai, on October 30 – November 1, 2015. It is hosted by the Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The PACLIC series of conferences emphasize the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language, and provides a forum for researchers in different fields of language study in the Pacific-Asia region to share their findings and interests in the formal and empirical study of languages. Organized under the auspices of the PACLIC Steering Committee, PACLIC 29 will be the latest installment of our long standing collaborative efforts among theoretical and computational linguists in the Pacific-Asia region.

Topics include but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):

Language Studies
- Corpus linguistics
- Discourse analysis
- Language acquisition
- Language learning
- Language, mind, and culture
- Language theory
- Morphology
- Phonology
- Pragmatics/Sociolinguistics
- Semantics
- Spoken language processing
- Syntax
- Typology

Information Processing and Computational Applications
- Cognitive modeling of language
- Dialogue and interactive systems
- Digital humanities
- Information retrieval/extraction
- Language resources
- Machine learning/Data mining
- Machine translation
- Multi-linguality in NLP
- NLP applications
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Social media
- Text classification/summarization
- Word segmentation

Submissions should describe substantial, original, and unpublished work written in readable and plain English and may not exceed 10 pages, including references. Accepted papers will be presented in either regular sessions or poster sessions as determined by the program committee. Papers in the proceedings of PACLIC has been indexed in Scopus since PACLIC 19 (2005).

http://bcmi.sjtu.edu.cn/~paclic29/
http://bcmi.sjtu.edu.cn/~paclic29/index.php