Conference Scope

The 2014 conference on computational linguistics and speech processing is the 26th annual conference sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP). ROCLING 2014 will provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practiocal development experiences from all NLP areas, including computational linguistics, information understanding, and speech processing. We invite paper submission reporting original investigation results and system development experience as well as real-world applications.

Topics

Computational Linguistics

Cognitive/Psychological linguistics
Computational semantics
Computational pragmatics
Computational morphology
Computational phonology
Discourse processing
Dialogue system
Syntax and parsing
Word segmentation/POS tagging


Information Understanding

Information extraction
Information retrieval
Language learning
Machine translation/Multi-lingual systems
Named entity recognition
NLP tools/resources
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
Question answering
Summarization


Speech Processing

Spoken language processing
Speech analysis
Speech understanding
Speech synthesis/conversion
Speech/speaker/language recognition
Speech based affective computing
Speech summarization
Speech enhancement
Speech coding


Paper Submission
Each submission will be reviewed based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as poster presentations. Both oral and poster presentations will be published in the ROCLING 2014 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).