The 24th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2012) will be held at Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, 21-22 September 2012. Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP), ROCLING is the most historied and comprehensive conference focused on computational linguistics, speech processing, and related areas in Taiwan. ROCLING 2012 will be co-hosted by the Department of Information Management and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University. The two-day conference will feature a full complement of invited talks, paper and poster sessions. ROCLING 2012 invites submissions of original and unpublished research papers on all areas of computational linguistics and speech processing, including but not limited to:

cognitive/psychological linguistics
discourse/dialogue modeling
information extraction/text mining
information retrieval
language understanding/generation
lexicon/morphology
named entity recognition
NLP applications/tools/resources
machine translation/multilingual processing
phonetics/phonology
question answering
semantic web
semantics/pragmatics
speech analysis/synthesis
speech recognition/understanding
spoken dialog systems
spoken language processing
syntax/parsing
text/speech summarization
web knowledge discovery
word segmentation/POS tagging
others



Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and relevance to the conference. An accepted paper will be presented either as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation. Both oral and poster presentations will be published in the ROCLING 2012 conference proceedings and included in the ACL Anthology. A number of papers will be selected as Journal versions and invited for extension and publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP).



Important Dates:


Submission due: August 10, 2012 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: August 26, 2012
Camera-ready due: September 2, 2012
Conference date: September 21 - 22, 2012

Keynotes:

Dr. Kenneth Church, President of ACL
Dr. Li Deng, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research