Call for Papers

The 20th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2021)

Call for Papers

The 20th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2021) will take place in Hohhot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohhot ), China, August 13-15 2021, hosted by Inner Mongolia University ( https://www.imu.edu.cn/yw/Home.htm ). CCL is an annual conference starting from 1991 (bi-annual before 2013). It is the flagship conference of the Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS), the largest NLP scholar and expert community in China. After near 30 years’ development, CCL has been widely recognized as the most authoritative, influential and largest NLP conference in China. With a major emphasis on computer processing of the languages in China, CCL is a premier nation-wide forum for disseminating new scholarly and technological work in computational linguistics.

Conference Website： http://cips-cl.org/CCL2021

Topics

You are invited to submit original research and application papers on all the topics of computational linguistics, including but not limited to the following:

  • Cognitive modelling of language processing and - psycholinguistics
  • Machine learning for NLP
  • Evaluation methods
  • Language resources and annotation
  • Lexical semantics and ontologies
  • Word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging and word sense disambiguation
  • Chunking, parsing, and semantic analysis
  • Discourse, coreference and pragmatics
  • Machine translation and multilinguality in NLP
  • Underresourced languages processing
  • NLP for social media
  • Named entity recognition and linking
  • Web information retrieval
  • Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and text classification
  • Summarization and generation
  • Textual entailment
  • Open-domain information extraction and question answering
  • Social computing
  • Large-scale knowledge acquisition and reasoning
  • Human-machine Conversation Technology
  • Speech recognition and synthesis
  • Multimodal processing
  • Medical NLP
  • NLP Applications

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2021 1 April 2021
  • Notification of acceptance: 29 May 2021 15 May 2021
  • Camera ready submission: 15 June 2021 1 June 2021

Submissions

Papers submitted to CCL 2021 can be in Chinese or English. An accepted paper will be presented either as an oral talk or as a poster, as determined by the Program Committee. Papers accepted in Chinese will be published by the Journal of Chinese Information Processing, Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), Science China, and other key Computer Science journals of China technology. A directory of key journals of China technology is officially released by Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China annually. The authors of accepted papers must revise the papers according to the review before being published. The Journal of Chinese Information Processing reserves the right not to publish an accepted CCL paper that has not been revised according to the review. Science China and other journals to which papers are recommended might require an additional review before being accepted for publication. Accepted papers in English will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

In addition, all accepted papers will be published in CCL Anthology and ACL Anthology.

Format: We ask all submissions to follow the LaTeX templates provided. Papers may consist of up to ten (10) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Papers will be double-blindly reviewed without the authors’ names and affiliations included. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Please download the templates at http://cips-cl.org/static/CCL2021/downloads/ccl2021_template.zip

Submission Website: Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the START system at https://www.softconf.com/l/ccl2021/

Multiple-Submission Policy: CCL 2021 allows authors to submit manuscripts to leading NLP international conferences at the same time only if the conferences have established similar multiple-submission policies. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences must indicate this at the submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation in CCL 2021 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline (i.e., 1 June 2020) as to whether the paper will be presented at CCL 2021. Once confirmed, the paper must be withdrawn from other venues. We will not accept papers that are identical or overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.

Awards and Funds

CCL has granted best paper awards to high-quality and influential submissions in Chinese and English respectively since 2014. This year, the Program Committee will keep granting best paper awards as before. The recipients of each award will receive bonus and a certificate.

Funded by Tencent Weixin, CCL has established travel grants to students with papers accepted by the conference since 2018. This year, travel grants will be available for 10 students.