Summary of COLING 2012 international computational linguistics conference

Aaron L.-F. Han

http://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronhan

Natural Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Laboratory

Department of Computer and Information Science

University of Macau

IIT, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2012

• the Biennial International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) is the top conference in the literature of natural language processing below the ACL (ranked second in all the conferences in the NLP category by ArnetMiner: http://arnetminer.org/page/conference-rank/html/NLP.html).

• COLING 2012, was organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), at IIT Bombay. The conference is organized under the umbrella of International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL: http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/iccl/).

• There were more than 1000 paper submissions, of which 173 accepted as oral presentation, 138 as posters, 66 demonstrations and 22 reserves.

• The total number of registrants has exceeded 700, with delegates coming from 60 countries.

• 15 focused and topical workshops and 6 high quality tutorials (two days before the main conference and one day immediately after).

• The organizer IIT Bombay: the premier institutes of technology in India (world-rank 227 by U.S. News).

India Institute of Technology (IIT), VMCC Building

LEPOR: A Robust Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation with

Augmented Factors,

Aaron L. F. Han, Derek F. Wong and Lidia S. Chao, Proceedings of COLING

2012: Posters, pages 441–450, Mumbai, December 2012.

Open source tool https://github.com/aaronlifenghan/aaron-project-lepor

Online paper http://aclweb.org/anthology//C/C12/C12-2044.pdf#!

Presented paper in COLING 2012

Empirical MT sections, VMCC Auditorium

COLING2012 Lunch place in IIT VMCC Lobby

COLING Banquet in Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai, 11th Dec.

COLING Banquet in Renaissance Hotel, 11th Dec.

Aaron L.-F. Han

http://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronhan

Natural Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Laboratory

Department of Computer and Information Science

University of Macau