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CLIN29
January 31, 2019
Groningen
http://www.let.rug.nl/clin29/index.php

Call for Abstracts and Call for Participation at Shared Task
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CLIN 29: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands - First Call for Abstracts

The 29th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 29) will be organised by the Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). CLIN 29 will take place in Groningen, The Netherlands on January 31, 2019.

Abstract submission information

Researchers are invited to submit, in English, abstracts describing work on all aspects of computational linguistics and related language and speech technologies and applications.

Submissions should include:

Name, affiliation and contact details of each author
Presentation title
An abstract 250 words maximum, outlining their presentation (excluding references)
A stated preference for oral presentation or poster

Presentation abstracts should be submitted electronically, no later than November 15th, 2018 (12PM, GMT/UTC +01:00) via the dedicated submission website. There will be no deadline extension.
More info and submission link: http://www.let.rug.nl/clin29/call_for_papers.php

Invited Speaker

We are glad to announce that Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University - http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~dagan) will be the invited speaker for this edition of CLIN.


Shared Task

CLIN 29 includes a shared task on cross-genre gender detection in Dutch. Participants are provided with training data and (later) test data, and will be invited to write a (short) paper about their approach. There will also be a dedicated session at the conference. Detailed task information (datasets, deadlines, evaluation scripts, organizers) is shared through http://www.let.rug.nl/clin29/shared_task.php

Contact

For more information about CLIN 29: visit the website at http://www.let.rug.nl/clin29/index.php or contact us at 29clin@gmail.com or https://twitter.com/29_clin .


Main organizers

Malvina Nissim
Gertjan van Noord
Johan Bos
Gosse Bouma
Martijn Wieling
Antonio Toral
Tommaso Caselli
Andreas van Cranenburgh
Lasha Abzianidze
Rob van der Goot
Hessel Haagsma
Rik van Noord
Masha Medvedeva