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Welcome to ICON 2020!
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERSICON-2020: THE SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (Virtual Conference) IIT PATNA, INDIA December 18-21, 2020 Organized by NLP Association of India Web: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~ai-nlp-ml/icon2020
The seventeenth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2020) will be held at IIT Patna, India during December 18-21, 2020. 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, 2020. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials on December 18, 2020 and one day of post conference workshops on December 21, 2020.
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2. PAPER SUBMISSION
Long Papers
Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work.
Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) plus any no of pages for the references.
Short Papers
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are:
A small, focused contribution
A negative result
An opinion piece
An interesting application nugget
Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given 5 content pages in the proceedings.
Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions.
For more details, please visit: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~ai-nlp-ml/icon2020/paper_sub_format.html.
3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2020 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.
4. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The ICON organising Committee pleased to call for papers for the 2nd Doctoral Consortium. This event extends an opportunity for doctoral candidates to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion would include a feedback on the evolution and progress of their research. It also helps them to identify the roadmap and additional studies, which could help refine the shape of their doctoral thesis.
The doctoral consortium will be a one-day or half day event being organised on December 21, 2020, as part of the ICON-2020 conference at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna). The applicants are required to submit a two-page extended abstract of their PhD research work. The shortlisted candidates would be invited to the consortium where they are required to present a summary of their research. Each candidate will be given 30 minutes for the presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of 15 minutes, led by a panel of experts. Prospective doctoral students from language technologies related disciplines are invited to apply. The selection of participants will be based on the submitted abstracts.
Guidelines
The invitation is open to all participants of ICON 2020. The applicants are required to submit an extended two-page abstract on their ongoing doctoral research. The submission can be extended to a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional third page exclusively for references. The submissions must follow the ICON template provided in the author's kit.The abstracts may incorporate published and in-progress work from the authors. Submissions are expected to present a fair picture of the research undertaken towards the thesis. Participants are advised to refrain from submitting a shorter version of their conference papers. Submissions must have the participant as the sole author. Acknowledgements to their supervisors, supporting agencies/bodies, and contributors to thework, can be made in a separate section.
The submission must highlight the following: The motivation of the research; Key issues identified/addressed; Major contributions; Methodologies, Experiments; Discussion of results; Future plans and Roadmap for the thesis.
5. IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop Proposal Submission |
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Workshop Acceptance Notification |
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Paper Submission Deadline |
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Doctoral Consortium Deadline |
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Tutorial Proposal Submission |
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Tutorial Acceptance Notification |
October 30, 2020 |
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Paper Acceptance Notification (Long and Short) |
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Paper Acceptance Notification (Doctoral Consortium) |
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Camera Ready Paper Submission |
December 7, 2020 |
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Conference |
December 18-21, 2020 |
6. COMMITTEES
Conference General Chair: Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad Conference PC Chairs: Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AI-NLP-ML Research Group, IIT Patna For more details, please visit: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~ai-nlp-ml/icon2020