NLPCS 2018 invite PhDs students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium, which will be held on 12 September 2018. This is a great opportunity for PhD students to provide a forum that brings together prominent scholars of today and talented young scholars of tomorrow.
- To discuss and share their experiences and problems with other students and with a panel of experts
- To encourage open and useful discussions, and
- To provide insights that will help students for the continuation of their research.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
- Computational Models in Cognitive Neuroscience
- Computational Models of NLP
- Corpus Linguistics
- Discourse Processing
- Emotion and Language Processing
- Evolutionary NLP
- Multi-Lingual Processing
- Multimodality in Speech / Text Processing
- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems
- Neural bases of Language
- Pragmatics and NLP
- Speech Processing
- Social Cognition of Language
- Text Mining
- Text Summarisation and Information Extraction
- Tools and Resources in NLP
Important dates
- Abstract Submission: 15 June 2018 by email nlpcs2018@epi.uj.edu.pl
- Authors’ Notification: 30 June 2018
- Final Abstract Submission and Registration: 20 July 2018
Registration Fee to both, workshop and doctoral consortium, for PhD students: € 200
Submission Guidelines
PhD students are expected to submit:
- A 4-page extended abstract (NLPCS extended abstract template) explaining the research questions and objectives, the originality of the research, achievements, the future directions and the challenges experienced, including references and figures/tables.
- An short biography (300 words maximum),
- A letter (in English) from the University confirming the PhD student status.
The accepted candidates will have to prepare a camera-ready 4-page extended abstract (including references and figures/tables) to be published in the conference proceedings. They will be expected to give a 20 mins PowerPoint presentation highlighting the research questions and objectives, the contribution to NLPCS 2018 topics of interest, the originality of the research, the achievements, the future directions and the challenges experienced.
The NLPCS extended abstract format template should be used for submitting the 4-page extended abstract.
Committees
- Aretoulaki, M. (Dialog Connection, UK)
- Barnden, J.A. (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Cristea, D. (University of Iasi, Romania)
- Finley G. (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Gatkowska, I. (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
- Korzycki, M. (Industry)
- Kumar D. (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
- Lee M. (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Lubaszewski, W. (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
- Noriega L. (Manchester Business School, UK)
- Oakes M. (Wolverhampton University, UK)
- Rayson, P. (Lancaster University, UK)
- Roche, C. (Université de Savoie, France)
- Schwab, D. (Universite de Grenoble Alpes, France)
- Schwitter, R. (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Sedes, F. (Université Paul Sabatier, France)
- Sharp, B. (Staffordshire University, UK)
- D. Suendermann-Oeft (Dialog, Multimodal, and Speech Research Center – DIAMONDS)
- Zock, M. (Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, France)
Organizing Committee
- Bernadette Sharp (Staffordshire University, United Kingdom)
b.sharp@staffs.ac.uk - Wieslaw Lubaszewski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
lubaszew@agh.edu.pl - Florence Sedes (Paul Sabatier University, France)
florence.sedes@irit.fr
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to nlpcs2018@epi.uj.edu.pl