CICLing (International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing; before 2017 known under the name International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) is an annual conference on computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). The first CICLing conference was held in 2000 in Mexico City. The conference is attended by one to two hundred of NLP and CL researchers and students every year. As of 2017, it is ranked within the top 20 sources (conferences and journals) on computational linguistics by Google Scholar.Google Scholar computational linguistics category Past CICLing conferences have been held in Mexico, Korea, Israel, Romania, Japan, India, Greece, Nepal, Egypt, Turkey, Hungary, and Vietnam; the 2019 event was held in France.

Overview CICLing is a series of annual international conferences devoted to computational linguistics (CL), natural language processing (NLP), human language technologies (HLT), natural-language human-computer interaction (HCI), as well as speech processing and speech recognition (SR).

Their topics of interest include, but are not limited to: text processing, computational morphology, tagging, stemming, syntactic analysis, parsing and shallow parsing, chunking, recognizing textual entailment, ambiguity resolution, semantic analysis, pragmatics, lexicon, lexical resources, dictionaries and machine-readable dictionaries (MRD), grammar, anaphora resolution, word sense disambiguation (WSD), machine translation (MT), information retrieval (IR), information extraction (IE), document handling, document classification and text classification, text summarization, text mining (TM), opinion mining, sentiment analysis, plagiarism detection, and spell checking (spelling).

CICLing series was founded in 2000 by Alexander Gelbukh. The acronym "CICLing" refers to "Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational Linguistics", the name used before 2017.

Almost all CICLing events have been endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Unlike some other conferences on computational linguistics and natural language processing, such as those run by the Association for Computational Linguistics, CICLing does not release its main proceedings as Open Access, publishing them instead with Springer; however, most of its complementary proceedings, published as special issues of journals, are released as Open Access; in addition, Springer allows the authors to make their papers available via their own webpages.

Past CICLing Conferences

In the table below, the figures for the number of accepted papers and acceptance rate refer to the main proceedings volume and do not include supplemental proceedings volumes. The number of countries corresponds to submissions, not to accepted papers.

YearCountryCityWebsiteProceedingsSubmissionsCountriesAcceptedAcceptance RateNotes2000MexicoMexico City34103294.12001MexicoMexico City72105373.6First time published in LNCS2002MexicoMexico City67194871.62003MexicoMexico City92236772.82004KoreaSeoul129217457.42005MexicoMexico City151268858.32006MexicoMexico City176375933.52007MexicoMexico City179345329.62008IsraelHaifa204395225.52009MexicoMexico City167404426.32010RomaniaIași271476123.02011JapanTokyo298487424.82012IndiaNew Delhi307468828.62013GreeceSamos354558724.62014NepalKathmandu300578528.32015EgyptCairo329629528.92016TurkeyKonya298548929.8In memoriam of Adam Kilgarriff2017HungaryBudapest356608624.22018VietnamHanoi2019FranceLa RochelleForthcoming

Keynote Speakers and Local Organizing Committee Chairs

The table lists, by year, experts that have given keynote addresses at past CICLing conferences, as well as the chairs of the Local Organizing Committee.

YearKeynote SpeakersLocal Chair2000Richard Kittredge, Igor Mel'čukAlexander Gelbukh2001Graeme Hirst, Sylvain KahaneAlexander Gelbukh2002Ruslan Mitkov, Ivan Sag, Yorick WilksAlexander Gelbukh2003Eric Brill, Aravind Joshi, Adam Kilgarriff, Ted PedersenAlexander Gelbukh2004Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nick Campbell, Martin Kay, Philip ResnikSangYong Han2005Christian Boitet, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Ellen RiloffAlexander Gelbukh2006Eduard Hovy, Nancy Ide, Rada MihalceaAlexander Gelbukh2007Gregory Grefenstette, Kathleen McKeown, Raymond MooneyAlexander Gelbukh2008Ido Dagan, Eva Hajičová, Alon Lavie, Kemal OflazerShuly Wintner2009Jill Burstein, Ken Church, Dekang Lin, Bernardo MagniniAlexander Gelbukh2010James Pustejovsky, Shuly WintnerCorina Forăscu2011Chris Manning, Diana McCarthy, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Hans UszkoreitYasunari Harada2012Srinivas Bangalore, John A. Carroll, Marie-Francine Moens, Salim Roukos Niladri Chatterjee2013Sophia Ananiadou, Walter Daelemans, Roberto Navigli, Michael ThelwallEfstathios Stamatatos2014Jerry Hobbs, Bing Liu, Suresh Manandhar, Johanna MooreSagun Dhakhwa2015Erik Cambria, Mona Talat Diab, Lauri Karttunen, Joakim NivreSamhaa R. El-Beltagy2016Pascale Fung, Tomas Mikolov, Simone Teufel, Piek VossenHatem Haddad2017Marco Baroni, Iryna Gurevych, Björn Schuller, Hinrich SchützeAttila Novák2018Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Jing Jiang, Soujanya Poria, Fabrizio SebastianiAntoine Doucet2019Antoine Doucet

See also The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science. The list of linguistics conferences contains other academic conferences in linguistics.

References

External links CICLing series website