Call for Applications for the AFNLP-CIPS Scholarship

The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) and the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS) announce a call for applications for the AFNLP-CIPS scholarship, a jointly-fund scholarship for students to participate in the COLING-2010 conference. Ten students who have contributed papers to COLING-2010 will be selected to receive the scholarship. All selected applicants will receive the following concessions:
 Free registration for the main conference, including the banquet
 Free attendance at the conference reception
 Free city tour
 All conference gifts, including a conference bag, CD-ROM of the proceedings (the           main conference, tutorials, and workshops are all included), souvenirs, and so on.
 Free 6-night accommodation (a standard room in Yayunchun Hotel, a 3-star hotel)           from August 22-27, 2010 will be also awarded to up to five selected candidates.

Students who meet the following conditions are encouraged to submit applications:
 The applicant must be a registered full-time student with a valid student ID;
 The applicant must be an author or a co-author of an accepted paper, oral or            poster, of COLING-2010, with confirmed submission of camera-ready            paper(s).

Recipients of the scholarship will be determined by the following selection criteria:
 The first author of Best Paper Finalists automatically qualifies if he/she is a valid student;
 Applicants from less developed economies receive first priority;
 Authors of oral papers receive priority over others;
 A first author receives priority over other authors;
 Only one applicant per paper can be awarded;
 Other things being equal, ranking of applicants will be determined by the review panel.

All applications must be submitted with the following form:

Notice:
1 If a candidate has more than one paper accepted, please use commas to separate the ID    numbers.
2 The status is either undergraduate, PhD candidate, or other graduate student.

Please note the following important dates:
 Deadline for submission of applications: July 3, 2010
          (by 23:59 PDT (GMT -7 hours))
 Announcement of acceptance: July 7, 2010

Please send the application form to Professor Houfeng Wang through e-mail: colingserver@gmail.com.

Failing to participate in COLING-2010 automatically voids all standing scholarship offers.