CompLing-2018: International Workshop «Computational Linguistics» ITMO University St. Petersburg, Russia, May 30-June 1, 2018 |
Conference website | http://dtgs-conference.org |
Abstract registration deadline | February 1, 2018 |
Submission deadline | February 1, 2018 |
International Workshop «Computational Linguistics» (CompLing-2018) will be held in St.Petersburg, Russia on June 1-2, 2018 as a joint event of two conferences - “Digital Transformations & Global Society” (DTGS-2018) and “Internet and Modern Society” (IMS-2018). It will be organized within the framework of the Information Society Technologies Week at the ITMO University and the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg Campus).
The goal of the workshop is to discuss the actual issues of interaction of linguistics and information technologies – regarding the development of technology solutions on the basis of a natural language, and the influence of information technologies on the language. Target audience are linguists of all profiles, the staff of organizations developing information systems that involve natural language processing, specialists in knowledge representation, higher education teachers, translators.
List of Topics
- Computer modeling of language
- Computer analysis of natural language
- Corpus linguistics
- Digital linguistic resources
- Computational and linguistic ontologies
- Information extraction
- Document analysis
- Information retrieval
- Machine translation
- Computational lexicography
- Speech technologies
- Linguistic analysis of social networks.
Committees
Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Karel Pala, Professor, Head of the NLP Centre at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Victor Zakharov, PhD, Associate Professor of the Mathematical Linguistics Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Organizing Committee:
- Larisa Belyaeva, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Education Technology in Philology, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russia
- Alexei Dobrov, PhD, Senior Lecturer of the Mathematical Linguistics Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
- Natalia Loukachevitch, Doctor of Sciences, Leading Researcher of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Olga Lyashevskaya, PhD, Professor of the School of Linguistics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Olga Mitrofanova, PhD, Associate Professor of the Mathematical Linguistics Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
- Alexander Piperski, PhD, Associate Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Researcher of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
- Maria Khokhlova, PhD, Associate Professor of the Mathematical Linguistics Department at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Participation
Stephen COLEMAN, Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds, author of Can the Internet Strengthen Democracy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017), How Voters Feel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) and other prominent books and articles on political communication and online democracy.
Anthony FAIOLA, Professor and Head of the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Faiola's research is positioned at the intersection of health informatics and human-computer interaction—where he focuses on advancing the information science of socio-technical systems (such as mobile health technology) that support clinical work and personal health and wellness.
Publication
After the conference all accepted papers will be published in:
the "Computational Linguistics and Digital Ontologies" (in Russian), serial edition (ISSN 2541-9781) indexed by Russian Scientific Citation Index. The submission guidelines can be found via the link http://ims.ifmo.ru/ru/pages/10/predstavlenie_tekstov_statey.htm
in the DTGS Proceedings (in English), "Communications in Computer and Information Science" series (Springer) indexed by Scopus, The submission guidelines can be found via the link http://dtgs-conference.org/#proceedings
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to dtgs@corp.ifmo.ru (Yury Kabanov, DTGS Conference Director)