Second Call For Papers

CLiC-it 2021

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Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

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26-27-28 January 2022

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Second Call for Papers

https://clic2021.disco.unimib.it

The Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it, aims at establishing a reference forum for the Italian community of researchers working in the fields of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it promotes and disseminates original research on all aspects of automatic language processing, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-the-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to the advancement of the CL and NLP fields.

The spirit of the conference is multi- and inter-disciplinary. Considering that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it is open to contributions on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian.

CLiC-it is an initiative of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it).

Topics of Interest

The conference invites the submission of papers on all aspects of automated language processing. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering
CL and NLP for the Humanities
Computational Social Science and Social Media
Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation
Ethics and NLP
Language Resources and Evaluation
Spoken Language Processing and Automatic Speech Understanding
Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP
Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation and Multilingualism
Morphology and Syntax Processing
Pragmatics and Creativity
Research and Industrial NLP Applications
Semantics, Knowledge Representation
Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding

CLiC-it 2021 has the goal of a broad technical program. We invite papers in theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, resources and their evaluation, as well as NLP applications and tools. We also invite papers describing a challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers, and papers that describe a negative result.

Submission Format

Papers may consist of up to five (5) pages of content plus unlimited references. Final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract both in English and Italian. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. For research communications (see below) an abstract of two (2) pages is required.

Submissions must follow the ACL two-column format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to the ACL format, which are available on the conference website at https://clic2021.disco.unimib.it/information-for-authors/. Submission must be electronic in PDF.

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair platform using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clicit2021. During the submission process, authors must specify the track relevant for their manuscript.

Reviewing is single blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts at submission time.

Research Communications

We are also favouring a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers that have been submitted and accepted elsewhere in 2021. If you are the author of a paper accepted at a major international CL conference or journal in 2021, you can present your work at CLiC-it 2021 in the form of a short research communication, within a dedicated session at the conference. Research communications will not be published in the proceedings, but are mostly intended to enforce dissemination of excellence in research within the Italian CL community.

Awards

In order to award the work of young researchers, the title of “best paper” will be attributed to the best paper with a Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the conference. The awarded authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL).

To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field and with the endorsement of AILC, we are conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 euro plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it, where the author will have the chance to present her/his thesis. The complete call is available on the conference website at: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”.

Important Dates

13/9/2021: Paper submission deadline

15/10/2021: Deadline for best master thesis proposals by supervisors

25/10/2021: Notification to authors of reviewing outcome

8/11/2021: Camera ready version of accepted papers

26-28/01/2022: CLiC-it Conference

Invited Speakers

Prof. Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Prof. Barbara Plank, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Invited Tutorials

Prof. Julia Bosque-Gil, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Prof. Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Czech Republic