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|Acronym=ICON 2017 
|Title=ICON  2017 : 14th International Conference on Natural Language Processing  
|Type=Conference 
|Field=data mining
|Start date=2017/12/18T12:00:00
|End date=2017/12/21T12:00:00 
|City=Kolkata
|Country=India
|Homepage=http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/icon2017/
|Submission deadline=2017/08/27T12:00:00
}}
ICON-2017: FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

The fourteenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing
(ICON-2017) will be held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata during December 18-21,
2017. The ICON Conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among
researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational
Linguistics (CL) in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 19-20,
2017. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials on December
18, 2017 and one day of post conference workshops on December 21, 2017.

Papers in ICON proceedings will be indexed in ACL Anthology. ACL Anthology is a
digital archive of research papers in Computational Linguistics for major
international conferences under Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
which is one of the most well-known associations for NLP and CL. The previous
proceedings of ICON 2014, ICON 2015 and ICON 2016 can be found in ACL Anthology.


1. TOPICS:

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all
aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on South Asian
languages and other less resourced languages, issues, and applications relevant
to South Asia. Papers on other languages of the world are also invited. The
areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

*Phonology
*Morphology
*Syntax
*Semantics
*Discourse
*POS Tagging
*Parsing
*Word Sense Disambiguation
*Machine Translation/Statistical Machine Translation
*Pragmatics
*Computational or Quantitative Psycholinguistics
*Statistical Methods
*Knowledge-based Methods
*Annotation and Annotated Corpora
*Lexical Resources
*Ontology
*Sentiment Analysis
*Machine Learning in NLP
*NLP-based Recommendation Systems
*Performance Evaluation of NLP Systems
*Information Retrieval
*Information Extraction
*Automatic Text Summarization
*Question Answering
*Natural Language Generation
*Dialog Systems
*Speech Corpora
*Speech Recognition
*Speech Synthesis
*NLP for Language Documentation and Preservation
*NLP for Educational Purposes
*NLP for Digital Humanities


The authors have to submit papers under any of the areas mentioned above and
must mark the topic(s) of their paper at the time of submission.

2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:

Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted on the ONLINE
PORTAL at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/icon2017. Papers should include an abstract of about
100-200 words. Please see the style file at
www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/

There are two tracks: one for the main conference and one for the Student Paper
Competition. You should select one of these while submitting the paper (not
both). For the NLP Tools Contest, paper submission will be through the special
website made for this contest (see below).

DOUBLE BLIND REVIEW: Papers in electronic form in the PDF format, anonymous for
double blind review, should be submitted. If your paper contains text of
languages other than English, please attach relevant fontfiles along with your
submission.

3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS:

Proposals are invited for pre-conferencetutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops
can be of half-day or full-dayduration. The proposal should be presented in the
form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the content,
description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial
content.

Workshops on linguistic aspects of South Asian languages are also welcome.

Send tutorial/workshop proposals to the ICON-2017 Secretariat by email
iconnlp@iiit.ac.in . For further information, please refer to the Conference URL
or contact the ICON-2017 Secretariat.

4. NLP TOOLS CONTESTS:

4.1 Sentiment Analysis for Indian Languages

India is a linguistic area with one of the longest histories of contact,
influence, use, teaching and learning of English-in-diaspora in the world
(Kachru and Nelson, 2006). Thus, a huge number of Indians active on the internet
are able in English communication to some degree. India also enjoys huge
diversity in language. Apart from Hindi, it has several regional languages that
are the primary tongue of people native to the region. This is to the extent
that social media including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter etc. contain more than
one language, and such phenomena is called code-mixing and code-switching. On
the other side, the evolution of sentiments from such social media texts have
also created many new opportunities for information access and language
technology, but also many new challenges, making it one of the prime present-day
research areas.Sentiment analysis in code-mixed data has several real-life
applications in opinion mining from social media campaign to feedback analysis.

Linguistic processing of such social media dataset and its sentiment analysis is
a difficult task. Till date, most of the experiments have been performed on
identifying the languages (Bali et al., 2014; Das and Gamback, 2014),
parts-of-speech tagging (Ghosh et al., 2016) etc. Few tasks also have been
started on the sentiment analysis of code-mixed data such as Hindi-English
(Joshi et al., 2016). Therefore, we believe that it is the best place to bring
more research attention towards developing language technologies for identifying
sentiments from Indian social media texts.

Main goal of this task is to identify the sentence level sentiment polarity of
the code-mixed dataset of Indian languages pairs (Hi-En, Ben-Hi-En) collected
from Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp.Each of the sentences is annotated with
language information as well as polarity at sentence level. The participants
will be provided development, training and test dataset.

Each participating team will be allowed to submit two systems for each of the
language pairs and the best result will be considered as final. The final
evaluation will be performed based on the macro-averaged F1-measure. The python
code for the evaluation will provided by the organizers.Initially, each of
participating teams will have access to the development and training data.
Later, the unlabeled test data will be provided and the teams have to submit the
results within 24 hours. There will be no distinction between constrained and
unconstrained systems, but the participants will be asked to report what
additional resources they have used for each of their submitted runs.


The contest will have three prizes:

FIRST PRIZE: Rs.10,000/-
SECOND PRIZE: Rs.7,500/-
THIRD PRIZE: Rs.5,000/-


5. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES

ICON-2017 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:
Track I : NLP (All areas)
Track II : Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)

Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded
in each track based on original work carried out. The prizes are:

FIRST PRIZE: Rs.10,000/-
SECOND PRIZE: Rs.7,500/-
THIRD PRIZE: Rs.5,000/-

The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a
special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence
expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each
paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres
in India. For any clarifications, contact Student Paper Competition Chair on
iconnlp@iiit.ac.in. Submission of papers for the Student Paper Competition will
be through the same EasyChair website as for the main conference. Just make sure
to select the appropriate track.

6. IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline Aug 27, 2017
Paper Acceptance Notification Oct 21, 2017
Camera Ready Copy Submission Nov 15, 2017
Tutorial/Workshop Proposals Submission Aug 27, 2017
Tutorial/Workshop Acceptance Notification Sep 10, 2017
NLP Tools Contest Registration Deadline Aug 7, 2017
Student Paper Competition Submission Deadline Aug 27, 2017

7. COMMITTEES:

Advisory Committee Chair
Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Chair)

Conference General Chair
Rajeev Sangal, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India

Programme Committee
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India (Chair)
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad, India (Co-Chair)

Tools Contest

Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India (Chair)
Amitava Das, IIIT-Sri City, India

Student Paper Competition

Anil Kumar Singh, IIT(BHU), Varanasi, India

Organizing Committee

Sudip Naskar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

8. CONTACT INFORMATION

ICON-2017 Secretariat
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, India
Ph: +91-40-6653 1333 Fax: +91-400-6653 1413
e-mail: iconnlp@iiit.ac.in
URL: http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/icon2017/

Previous ICON Proceedings on ACL Anthology

http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/#5100
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/#5900
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W16/#6300
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Start date	12:00:00, 18 December 2017 +
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Title	ICON 2017 : 14th International Conference on Natural Language Processing +