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Important Dates
| Camera Ready Deadline (Main): | October 10 |
| Camera Ready Deadline (Demos): | October 14 |
| Camera Ready Deadline (Workshops): | October 30 |
| Late Registration: | November 20 |
| Workshops / Tutorials: | December 11-12 |
| Main Conference: | December 13-16 |
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Best Papers
Best Papers
- Predicting Human Similarity Judgments with Distributional Models: The Value of Word Associations
- Simon De Deyne, Amy Perfors, and Daniel J Navarro
- Extending the Use of Adaptor Grammars for Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation of Unseen Languages
- Ramy Eskander, Owen Rambow, and Tianchun Yang
Finalist of Best Paper Award
Additional Information
Additional Information for Participants
https://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/additional.pdf
Poster Session Information
https://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/additional_poster.pdf
Demo Session Information
Proceedings
Technical Papers
https://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/main.pdf (122MB)
System Demonstrations
https://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/demos.pdf (37MB)
Tutorial Abstracts
Registration
Visa
For those who wish to apply for a visa to attend COLING2016, please follow the instruction below and send the complete Visa Application Form to the Secretariat of COLING2016 (coling2016@intergroup.co.jp) by October 31, 2016.
To Apply for a Visa
- Complete your registration for COLING2016
- Have your flight and accommodation information ready
- Fill out Visa Application Form and send it to the Secretariat of COLING2016 (coling2016@intergroup.co.jp)
Please note that all of the fields on the application form must be filled out in order for your application to be processed properly. You will be asked to provide your flight and accommodation information as well as your 'Registration Number', which will be given upon the completion of your registration. The application process usually takes more than a month, therefore, we highly recommend that you submit the form at your earliest convenience.
General information regarding a visa application is available here (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan), and please do not hesitate to contact the Secretariat, if you have any questions or queries.
If you have any questions regarding your VISA application, please feel free to contact the Secretariat of COLING2016 (coling2016@intergroup.co.jp).
Registration Page
Please register at the following site:
https://v3.apollon.nta.co.jp/coling2016/Application & Payment Due
[ Early Registration (CLOSED) ] October 20 (Thu) October 25 (Tue), 2016, 23:59 JST(GMT+9)
[ Late Registration (CLOSED) ] November 20 (Sun), 2016, 23:59 JST(GMT+9)
[ Onsite Registration ] December 11 (Sun) - December 16 (Fri), 2016
Registration Fees
| Early Fees (CLOSED) ~ October 25 23:59 JST | Late Fees (CLOSED) ~ November 20 23:59 JST | Onsite Fees | ||
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| Main Conference | Regular Delegate | ¥61,000 | ¥88,000 | ¥98,000 |
| Student Delegate | ¥46,000 | ¥70,000 | ¥80,000 | |
| Early Fees (CLOSED) ~ October 25 23:59 JST | Late Fees (CLOSED) ~ November 20 23:59 JST | Onsite Fees | |||||
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| with main conf. | W/T only | with main conf. | W/T only | with main conf. | W/T only | ||
| Tutorials | Regular Delegate | ¥14,000 | ¥20,000 | ¥20,000 | ¥25,000 | ¥26,000 | ¥30,000 |
| Student Delegate | ¥9,000 | ¥14,000 | ¥14,000 | ¥20,000 | ¥19,000 | ¥26,000 | |
| 1-Day Workshops | Regular Delegate | ¥14,000 | ¥20,000 | ¥20,000 | ¥25,000 | ¥26,000 | ¥30,000 |
| Student Delegate | ¥9,000 | ¥14,000 | ¥14,000 | ¥20,000 | ¥19,000 | ¥26,000 | |
| Half-Day Workshops | Regular Delegate | ¥7,000 | ¥10,000 | ¥10,000 | ¥12,500 | ¥13,000 | ¥15,000 |
| Student Delegate | ¥4,500 | ¥7,000 | ¥7,000 | ¥10,000 | ¥9,500 | ¥13,000 | |
Registration for the Main conference includes:
　*Attendance at all sessions of COLING 2016 main conference from Tuesday to Friday.
　*Coffee Breaks & Lunch Boxes, December 13-16.
　*Welcome Reception on Monday, December 12.
　*Banquet on Wednesday, December 14.
　*Half day excursion to Nara on Wednesday, December 14.
Registration without the Main conference (Workshop or Tutorial Only) includes:
　*Attendance at the chosen Workshop(s) or Tutorial(s) only.
　*Banquet and Excursion are NOT included.
　*Coffee Break(s) & Lunch Box of session.
*Refreshments at Coffee Breaks, Lunch Boxes as well as food and beverages at
Welcome Reception and Banquet will be provided free of charge to COLING2016
participants with the cooperation of the sponsor companies. Therefore, the
expenses for these items are not included in the Registration Fee.
Program
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dina Demner-Fushman, U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S.A.
https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/personnel/dina-demner-fushman
Reiko Mazuka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
https://www.brain.riken.jp/en/faculty/details/27
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
https://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~nivre/
Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, U.K.
https://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/directory/sht25@cam.ac.uk
Outline
Overall Timetable (Please also check PDF version below.)
https://coling2016.anlp.jp/outline
Main Conference
Program:https://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/Coling2016-Schedule_for_Web.pdf
Demos
Program:https://coling2016.anlp.jp/doc/Coling2016-demo-program.pdf
Tutorial timetable
| Time | December 11 (Sun) | |
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| 09:00 - 12:00 |
Tutors: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Dimitri Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London
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Tutors: Lun-Wei Ku and Wei-Fan Chen, Academia Sinica
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| 14:00 - 17:00 |
Tutors: Horacio Saggion and Francesco Ronzano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Tutors: Carolina Scarton, Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, and Lucia Specia
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| December 12 (Mon) | ||
| 09:00 - 12:00 |
Tutors: Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa
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Tutors: Matthias Petri and Trevor Cohn, The University of Melbourne
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| 14:00 - 17:00 |
Tutors: Marius Pasca, Google Inc.
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Workshops
1st day, 11 Dec 2016 (9 full-day)
- 6th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP2016)
https://www.sanlp.org/wssanlp2016 - Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces (GramLex)
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grammlex2016/index.php - The 2nd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT)
https://noisy-text.github.io/2016/ - Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH)
https://www.clarin-d.net/lt4dh - Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)
https://sites.google.com/site/cl4lc2016/home - Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop (ClinicalNLP)
https://text-machine.cs.uml.edu/clinical-nlp-2016 Workshop on Speech-centric Natural Language Processing (SCNLP)https://speechnlp.github.io/2016/
(We regret to inform you that the SCNLP workshop is cancelled.)- Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering Workshop (OKBQA2016)
https://coling2016.okbqa.org/ - Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra6)
https://glicom.upf.edu/hytra6/
2nd day, 12 Dec 2016 (9 full-day + 1 half-day)
- The 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016)
https://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/ - 5th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (CompuTerm2016)
https://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2016/ - Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial3)
https://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2016/ - The 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA2016)
https://nlptea2016.weebly.com/ - Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning in Computational Linguistics (ExProM)
https://www.cse.unt.edu/exprom2016/ - Fifth Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining (BioTxtM2016)
https://www.nactem.ac.uk/biotxtm2016/ - Third International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure and Second Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for Human Language Technologies (WLSI3nOIAF2)
https://langrid.org/wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016/ - Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex - V)
https://sites.google.com/site/cogalex2016/ - The 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR12)
https://sites.google.com/site/alr12coling2016/ - Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES)
https://malvinanissim.github.io/PEOPLES/
(half-day)
Excursion
Bus Tour - Explore Ancient Nara -
| Tour | COLING2016 | Starts at: 12:00, Osaka International Convention Center | |
| Date | Wednesday, December 14 | Ends at : 17:00, Osaka International Convention Center | |
| Maximum participants | 600 | Duration: 5 hours (including transfers) |
Tour Schedule
| 12:00 | Osaka Convention Center |
Highlights
Kofuku-ji is a Buddhist temple which has a close connection with the Fujiwara Clan (a powerful family of regents) and most notably the clan's founder Kamatari Fujiwara.
It is one of the historical sites that compose the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara.
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| 13:00 | Site A Kofuku-ji |
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| 15:00 | Site B Todai-ji |
Tōdai-ji (Eastern Great Temple) is a Buddhist temple complex, that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in the city of Nara.
Its Great Buddha Hall houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu.
The temple is a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara like Kofuku-ji.
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Please note:
Participants will be devided into two groups, with group 1 visiting Site A first and Site B second and vice versa for group 2.
English-speaking guides will accompany you throughout the tour. A lunch box will be provided for each participant on the bus on their way to Site A. The tour schedule and/or time may change due to traffic. |
Local Information
Accommodation
Accommodation in Japan
Japan Travel and Living Guide
Osaka
OSAKA INFO
Osaka Visitors' Guide
Osaka
Travel Guide
Osaka
(Wikipedia)
Osaka
(Wikitravel)
Japan
Japan National Tourism Organization
Japan Travel and Living Guide
Japan Travel Guide
(Japan Hoppers)
Japan
(Wikipedia)
Japan
(Wikitravel)
Our Sponsors
We are very grateful to our sponsors who support COLING.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or taking part in our exhibition, please see Invitation page.
Official Supporter
Supported by International Exchange Program of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau
Diamond Sponsor
TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
Gold Sponsor
Shenyang YaTrans Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Baidu, Inc.
Japan Patent Information Organization (Japio)
TOIN Corporation
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Panasonic Corporation
Tencent Holdings, Ltd.
Microsoft Development Co., Ltd.
KDDI Research, Inc.
Silver Sponsor
Yahoo Japan Corporation
Google Inc.
Mirai Translate, Inc.
Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)
LINE Corporation
DMM Eikaiwa
NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
PFDeNA Inc.
Rakuten Institute of Technology, Rakuten, Inc.
IR-Advanced Linguistic Technologies Inc.
FUJITSU LIMITED
SunFlare Co., Ltd.
Language Resources Association (GSK)
Media Lab, The Asahi Shimbun Company
RIKEN
Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd.
Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST
Amazon.com, Inc.
Wifi Sponsor
Baobab, Inc.
Exhibition Sponsor
Gunosy Inc.
NTT Corporation
Committees
Nicoletta Calzolari
General Chair / GC
Yuji Matsumoto
Program Chair / PC
Rashmi Prasad
Program Chair / PC
Eiichiro Sumita
Local Chair / LC
Takenobu Tokunaga
Local Chair / LC
Sadao Kurohashi
Local Chair / LC
Key-Sun Choi
Workshop Chair / WS
Monica Monachini
Workshop Chair / WS
Yusuke Miyao
Workshop Chair / WS
Hideo Watanabe
Demo / DM
Marcello Federico
Tutorial / TU
Akiko Aizawa
Tutorial / TU
Hitoshi Isahara
Publication / PB
Masao Utiyama
Publication / PB
Satoshi Sekine
Sponsor / SP
Su Jian
Sponsor / SP
Patrick Pantel
Sponsor / SP
Chengqing Zong
Sponsor / SP
Ralf Steinberger
Sponsor / SP
Srinivas Bangalore
Publicity / PR
Dekai Wu
Publicity / PR
Antonio Branco
Publicity / PR
John Judge
Advisor to the Local Committee
Akifumi Yoshimoto
Web Master
Yugo Murawaki
Student Volunteer Coordinator
Akihiro Tamura
Program Booklet Coordinator