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3rd Call for Papers

CLiC-it 2019 (Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics) Bari, 13-15 November 2019

**Regular, Position and Survey Papers submission deadline: 30/06/2019** http://clic2019.di.uniba.it/==========================================================

The Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it, aims at establishing a reference forum for the Italian community of researchers working in the fields of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it promotes and disseminates high-level, original research on all aspects of automatic language processing, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-the-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to the advancement of the CL and NLP fields.

The spirit of the conference is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it is open to contributions on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian.

The sixth edition of CLiC-it will be held in Bari, on 13-15 November, 2019. CLiC-it is an initiative of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC — http://www.ai-lc.it).

**Invited Speakers**

Raquel Fernández, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherland

Title: Visually-grounded dialogue models: past, present, and future

Andrea Moro, IUSS – School for Advanced Studies of Pavia, Italy

Title: Impossible languages and the architecture of human grammars

**Tutorial**

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University – Milan, Italy

Title: Recognizing and reducing bias in NLP applications

Requirements

The conference invites the submission of papers on all aspects of automated language processing. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following ones:

Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation Entity Linking, Open Data and Data Science Explainability of Deep Learning models for NLP Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering Knowledge Representation Language Resources and Evaluation Lexical Semantics Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Machine Translation Morphology and Syntax Processing Multilinguality NLP for Digital Humanities NLP for Web and Social Media Pragmatics and Creativity Research and Industrial NLP Applications Replicable and Reproducible methods Sentence-level Semantics Spoken Language Processing and Automatic Speech Understanding Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding

CLiC-it 2019 has the goal of a broad technical program. We invite papers in theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, resources and their evaluation, as well as NLP applications and tools. We also invite papers describing a challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers, and papers that describe a negative result.

Submission Format

This year the conference will accept the following types of papers:

Regular papers

Position papers

Survey papers

Research communications

Regular and Position papers may consist of up to five (5) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references. Survey papers may consist of up to six (6) pages of content, and unlimited additional pages of references. Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract both in English and Italian for papers in Italian. Papers in English are encouraged. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster.

For Research communications (see below) a two (2) page abstract is required.

Submissions should follow the ACL two-column format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to the ACL format, which will be available on the conference website under “Information for Authors”.

Submissions must be electronic in PDF, by using the EasyChair submission software (the EasyChair link will be available soon).

Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts.

Research Communications

We are also favouring a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers that have been submitted and accepted elsewhere in 2019. If you are the author of a paper accepted at a major international CL conference or journal in 2019, you can present your work at CLiC-it

2019 in the form of a short research communication, within a dedicated session at the conference. Research communications will not be published in the proceedings, but are mostly intended to enforce dissemination of excellence in research within the Italian CL community.

Awards

In order to award the work of young researchers, the title of “best paper” will be attributed to the best paper in different research areas with a Master/PhD student as the first author and presenting the work at the conference. The awarded authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL).

To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field and with the endorsement of AILC, we are conferring a prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it, where the author will have the chance to present her/his thesis. The complete call will be available on the conference website under the path: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”.

Important Dates

30/06/2019: Regular, Position and Survey Papers submission deadline

31/07/2019: Research Communications submission deadline

06/09/2019: Notification to authors of reviewing outcome

30/09/2019: Camera ready version of accepted papers

13-15/11/2019: CLiC-it Conference, Bari

People

Program co-chairs:

Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro

**Area-Chairs**:

Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Explainability of Deep Learning models for NLP Danilo Croce, University of Roma Tor Vergata Aurelie Herbelot, University of Trento

Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine

Knowledge Representation

Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen Diego Reforgiato, National Research Council-CNR

Language Resources and Evaluation

Elisabetta Jezek, University of Pavia

Cristina Bosco, University of Torino

Lexical and Sentence-level Semantics

Alessandro Panunzi, University of Florence Rocco Tripodi, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice

Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP

Marco Passarotti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen

Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Marco Marelli, University of Milano-Bicocca Francesco Vespignani, University of Trento

Machine Translation and Multilinguality

Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST Johanna Monti, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Morphology and Syntax Processing

Fabio Tamburini, FICLIT-Alma mater studiorum University of Bologna Cristiano Chesi, Ne.T.S.-IUSS Center for Neurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax (Pavia)

NLP for Digital Humanities

Federico Boschetti, Institute of Computational Linguistics “A.

Zampolli” (ILC), CNR of Pisa

Rachele Sprugnoli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan

NLP for Web and Social Media

Serena Villata, CNRS-Laboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis Viviana Patti, University of Torino

Pragmatics and Creativity

Federica Cavicchio, University of Padova Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST

Research and Industrial NLP Applications Francesca Bonin, IBM Research AI Alessandro Moschitti, Amazon

Replicable and Reproducible methods

Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padova

Spoken Language Processing and Automatic Speech Understanding Francesco Cutugno, University of Naples Federico II Alessandro Vietti, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen

Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding Tatiana Tommasi, Italian Institute of Technology Milan Raffaella Folgieri, University of Milan

Local Organizing Committee:

Pierpaolo Basile

Marco de Gemmis

Andrea Iovine

Pasquale Lops

Cataldo Musto

Nicole Novielli

Fedelucio Narducci

Marco Polignano

Gaetano Rossiello

Lucia Siciliani

Vincenzo Tamburrano

Sponsors:

Gold

SUD SISTEMI

Silver

INFOJUICE

CELI

Fondazione Puglia

ALMAWAVE

Bronze

eMinds

ELRA

REVEAL

QuestionCube

Further information

Conference website: http://clic2019.di.uniba.it/

Mail: clicit2019.info@uniba.it