Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Abstract

You will find in this volume papers from the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) held in Beijing, China on August 23-27, 2010 under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), and organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS) of China. For this prestigious natural language processing conference to be held in China is a significant event for computational linguistics and for colleagues in China, demonstrating both the maturity of our field and the development of academic areas in China. COLING started as a friendly gathering in New York in 1965, and has grown steadily since. Yet COLINGs aspiration to be a different conference remains the same. COLING strives to maintain its key qualities of embracing different theories and encouraging young scholars in spite of its growing size. A new component introduced at COLING 2010 underlines this quality. A RefreshINGenious (RING) session, organized by Aravind Joshi, our General Chair, allows new and un-orthodox ideas to be presented before they are fully developed in order to generate more discussion and stimulate other new ideas. We hope that this can become an important feature of COLING in the future. The 155 oral papers included in the hardcopy proceedings published by Tsinghua University Press, as well as the 334 papers included in the electronic proceedings (the same 155 oral papers plus 179 poster papers) are selected from among 815 effective submissions among the more than 840 submissions received. The very selective acceptance rate of 19.02% for oral presentations (155/815 submissions) indicates the extremely high quality of the papers. An additional 21.96% (179/815) are selected for poster presentations to bring the overall acceptance rate to 40.98% (334/815).