COLING 2010 Call for Demonstrations
The COLING 2010 Program Committee invites proposals for Demonstrations. We encourage both the exhibition of early research prototypes and mature systems. Please note that marketing commercial systems in the conference is not appropriate.
Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed for the conference paper submission:
Syntax, semantics, grammar, and the lexicon
Lexical semantics and ontologies
Phonology/morphology, word segmentation, and tagging
Summarization
Language generation
Paraphrasing and textual entailment
Parsing and chunking
Spoken language processing, understanding and speech-to-speech translation
Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language
Computational pragmatics
Dialogue and conversational agents
Computational models of discourse
Information retrieval
Question answering
Word sense disambiguation
Information extraction and text mining
Semantic role labeling
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Corpus-based modeling of language
Machine translation and translation aids
Multilingual processing
Multimodal systems and representations
Statistical and machine learning methods
Applications
Corpus development and language resources
Evaluation methods and user studies
The systems can be natural language processing systems or components in the systems, application systems using computational linguistic technology, tools for computational linguistic research, or software for demonstration or evaluation.
We would like to strongly encourage demonstrations of industrial systems as long as they prove technologically innovative given the current state of the art of theory and applied research in computational linguistics.
Reviewing
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints.
The reviewing will be single blind, so author names and affiliations should be included in the paper.
Presentation format
Accepted demos will first be presented in a plenary “Demo Madness” session where each demo presenter will have the opportunity to give an informative one-minute presentation about their demo. Demos will then be presented on table tops at a designated demo session with an optional accompanying poster.
Note that no hardware or software will be provided by the local organizers. Developers should make sure they can run their demos properly.
Accepted submissions will be allocated four pages in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.
Submission Information
All submissions must conform to the official COLING 2010 style guidelines (to be announced on the conference website). Submissions may consist of up to four pages (including references). Single column format may be used if it is more convenient.
Developers should outline the design of their system and provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web sites running a demo preview will also be helpful.
Please remember that the reviewing is single blind, that is, you must include the author names and affiliations on the first page of the system description.
Submissions Procedure
Proposals must be submitted by May 20th, 2010 11:59pm PST. by email
to demo co-chair Dr. Yang Liu (coling10demo@gmail.com).
Papers submitted after the deadline will not be reviewed.
In the email submission, please put in the subject: Coling 2010 demo
submission.
In the email body, please provide information of paper title, the authors
and their affiliation.
The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. Authors are
responsible for ensuring their PDF documents print correctly, e.g., all of
the necessary fonts are embedded in the PDF document.
Important Dates:
May 20, 2010: Submission deadline
June 30, 2010: Notification of acceptance
July 10, 2010: Submission of camera ready copies of materials for the proceedings
August 23-27, 2010: Conference
Demo chairs:
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Further details on the date, time, and format of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. Please send any inquiries to the demonstration chairs at yangl@hlt.utdallas.edu or tliu@ir.hit.edu.cn.
