Call for Papers


The 31th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information
and Computation (PACLIC 31)

November 16-18, 2017

University of the Philippines Cebu

Cebu, Philippines

Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017


Conference
Objectives

Following the long tradition of PACLIC conferences, PACLIC 31 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 (in alphabetical order):

Language Studies Information Processing and Computational Applications

Corpus linguistics Cognitive modeling of language

Discourse analysis Dialogue and interactive systems

Language acquisition Digital humanities

Language learning Information retrieval/extraction

Language, mind, and culture Language resources

Language theory Machine learning/Data mining

Morphology Machine translation

Phonology Multi-linguality in NLP

Pragmatics/Socioligustics NLP applications

Semantics Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

Spoken language processing Social media

Syntax Text classification/summarization

Typology Word segmentation




Important Dates


May 15, 2017 Deadline of paper submission

July 10, 2017 Notification

July 31, 2017 Camera-ready due

August 7, 2017 Early-bird registration deadline

November 16-18, 2017 PACLIC 31






Committees


Organizers

Linguistic Society of the Philippines

Computing Society of the Philippines – Special Interest Group on Natural
Language Processing

University of the Philippines Cebu

National University


Steering Committee

Hee-Rahk Chae, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul

Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Rachel Edita O. Roxas, National University, Manila

Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Benjamin T’sou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Kei Yoshimoto, Tohoku University, Sendai

Min Zhang, Soochow University, Suzhou


Conference Chair

Rachel Edita Roxas, National University, Manila


Co-Chairs

Robert Roxas, University of the Philippines Cebu, Cebu

Nathaniel Oco, National University, Manila

Shirley Dita, De La Salle University, Manila