The 20th ROCLING Conference will be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, on September 4-5, 2008. Sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP), ROCLING is the most historied and major conference in the broad field of computational linguistics, speech processing, and related areas in Taiwan.

ROCLING XX will be hosted by the Information Technology Center and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University. The two-day conference will feature invited talks, paper, and poster sessions.

ROCLING XX invites submissions of original and unpublished research papers on all areas of computational linguistics, natural language processing, and speech processing, including, but not limited to, the following topic areas.


Topics of Interest
(a) cognitive/psychological linguistics (l) semantic web
(b) discourse/dialogue modeling (m) semantics/pragmatics
(c) information extraction/text mining (n) speech analysis/synthesis
(d) information retrieval (o) speech recognition/understanding
(e) language understanding/generation (p) spoken dialog systems
(f) lexicon/morphology (q) spoken language processing
(g) machine translation/multilingual processing (r) syntax/parsing
(h) named entity recognition (s) text summarization
(i) NLP applications/tools/resources (t) web knowledge discovery
(j) phonetics/phonology (u) word segmentation/POS tagging
(k) question answering (v) others


Submission Guidelines
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than 25 A4- sized pages in PDF format (Click here to download the paper guideline and template). Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference website. The submitted papers should be written in either Chinese or English, and in single column, single-spaced format. The first page of the submitted paper should bear the items of paper title, author name, affiliation, and email address. All these items should be properly centered on the top, followed by an concise abstract of the paper.

Papers should be made in PDF format and submitted online at: http://forum.dmc.ntnu.edu.tw/rocling2008/


Important Dates for Authors
  • Paper submission: 04 Jul., 2008
  • Paper submission extended to: 14 Jul., 2008
  • Notification of acceptance: 11 Aug., 2008
  • Final paper due: 20 Aug., 2008
  • ROCLING 2008: 4-5 Sep., 2008

Conference Chair
Yuen-Hsien Tseng, National Taiwan Normal University
Program Co-Chairs
Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University
Berlin Chen, National Taiwan Normal University

Organizing Chair
Wen-Juan Hou, National Taiwan Normal University


Contact Us

For general queries, please contact:
Yu-Wen Hsu (
許育聞)
Information Technology Center,
National Taiwan Normal University
No.162, Sec. 1, Heping East Road., Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.), 106
Tel: +886-2-23215131 ext 632
Email:
yii_wen2001@yahoo.com.tw