19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
August, 24 - September, 1, 2002
Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan

Organized by: Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and Tsing Hua University
Under the Auspices of: The International Committee on Computational Linguistics
URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/

COLING is the most prominent conference in the field of Computational Linguistics. In its 40 plus years of existence, the biennial COLING has been a productive forum for scholars all over the world to exchange original research papers on a broad range of topics in computational linguistics. COLING is an international forum for discussion and presentation representing the current state of the art and determining standards of computational linguistics research.

In 2002, Taiwan will host the 19th COLING conference. This will be the first time that COLING is held outside Europe, North America, or Japan. It will be a chance for participants to experience the energy behind Taiwan's vibrant growth in knowledge technology, as well as the natural beauty of Formosa and its rich cultural heritage.

Submitted papers should describe original work, completed or in progress, rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page.

In line with the practice established in previous COLING conferences, authors will be asked to place their submission in one of two categories:

1. Regular papers, of not more than seven pages, presenting results of original complete research, and
2. Project notes, of five pages or less, describing ongoing research or demonstrating a system.

Method of Submission:

Complete a Paper Submission Form (http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psf.html). This form may be updated up to the deadline for paper submissions (15 February 2002). For your paper use the layout and format of papers described in the LATEX or Microsoft Word Style sheets (For more details on paper submission see http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html). Electronic submissions of papers are strongly preferred. Papers should be sent to coling2002@ikp.uni-bonn.de. Hard copy papers are also accepted. Further details will be available later.

Call for Workshop-Proposals :

The Program committee welcomes submissions of proposals for workshops with focus on computational linguistics. A separate Call for Workshops will be sent soon. For details on Workshop submission please contact Workshop Chair: Antonio Zampolli (Email:pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it)

Important Dates:

• Deadline for Workshop Proposals: 15 January, 2002
• Deadline for paper submission: 15 February, 2002
• Notification to authors: 1 May, 2002
• Notification of Workshops: 15 February, 2002
• Final camera-ready copy and pre-registration: 15 June, 2002
• Tutorials: 24 - 25 August, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
• Conference: 26 August - 30 August, 2002 (Howard International House)
• Post-Conference Workshops: 31 August, 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica)

Reviewing:

Reviewing of papers will be done by an International Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers (For details please go to: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html)

Program Committee:

• Winfried Lenders (Chair), University of Bonn, Germany
• Susan Armstrong, ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Christian Boitet, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
• Nicolletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
• Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Hisnchu, Taiwan
• Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
• Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.
• Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
• Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France
• Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Nara, Japan
• Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA
• Benjamin K. T'sou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Hans Uszkoreit, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
• Yorik Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK
• Shiwen Yu, Beijing University, China

Local Organization:

• The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
• Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
• Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
• National Tsing Hua University

Organizing Committee:

• Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica (Chair)
• Kathleen Ahrens, National Taiwan University
• Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University
• Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi-Nan University
• Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University
• Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica
• Kuang-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University
• Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University
• Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica (Executive secretary)
• Zhao-Ming Gao, National Taiwan University
• Sue-Jin Ker, Soochow University
• Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
• Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation
• Shu-Chuan Tseng, Academia Sinica (Executive secretary)
• Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University
• Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica
• Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University

Contacts:

Program:
Winfried Lenders
Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik
University of Bonn
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
D-53115 Bonn
Germany
Lenders@uni-bonn.de

Organization:
Sharon Wang
Institute of Linguistics
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei 11529
Taiwan
COLING02@sinica.edu.tw