International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing


CICLing is an annual conference on computational linguistics and natural language processing. The first CICLing conference was held in 2000 in Mexico City. The conference is attended by one to two hundred of NLP and CL researchers and students every year. As of 2017, it is ranked within top 20 sources on computational linguistics by Google Scholar. Past CICLing conferences have been held in Mexico, Korea, Israel, Romania, Japan, India, Greece, Nepal, Egypt, Turkey, Hungary, and Vietnam; the 2019 event was held in France.

Overview

CICLing is a series of annual international conferences devoted to computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technologies, natural-language human-computer interaction, as well as speech processing and speech recognition.
Their topics of interest include, but are not limited to: text processing, computational morphology, tagging, stemming, syntactic analysis, parsing and shallow parsing, chunking, recognizing textual entailment, ambiguity resolution, semantic analysis, pragmatics, lexicon, lexical resources, dictionaries and machine-readable dictionaries, grammar, anaphora resolution, word sense disambiguation, machine translation, information retrieval, information extraction, document handling, document classification and text classification, text summarization, text mining, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, plagiarism detection, and spell checking.
CICLing series was founded in 2000 by Alexander Gelbukh.
The acronym "CICLing" refers to "Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational Linguistics", the name used before 2017.
Almost all CICLing events have been endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Unlike some other conferences on computational linguistics and natural language processing, such as those run by the Association for Computational Linguistics, CICLing does not release its main proceedings as Open Access, publishing them instead with Springer; however, most of its complementary proceedings, published as special issues of journals, are released as Open Access; in addition, Springer allows the authors to make their papers available via their own webpages.

Past CICLing Conferences

In the table below, the figures for the number of accepted papers and acceptance rate refer to the main proceedings volume and do not include supplemental proceedings volumes. The number of countries corresponds to submissions, not to accepted papers.
YearCountryCityWebsiteProceedingsSubmissionsCountriesAcceptedAcceptance RateNotes
2000MexicoMexico City34103294.1
2001MexicoMexico City72105373.6First time published in LNCS
2002MexicoMexico City67194871.6
2003MexicoMexico City92236772.8
2004KoreaSeoul129217457.4
2005MexicoMexico City151268858.3
2006MexicoMexico City176375933.5
2007MexicoMexico City179345329.6
2008IsraelHaifa204395225.5
2009MexicoMexico City167404426.3
2010RomaniaIași271476123.0
2011JapanTokyo298487424.8
2012IndiaNew Delhi307468828.6
2013GreeceSamos354558724.6
2014NepalKathmandu300578528.3
2015EgyptCairo329629528.9
2016TurkeyKonya298548929.8In memoriam of Adam Kilgarriff
2017HungaryBudapest356608624.2
2018VietnamHanoi-
2019FranceLa RochelleForthcoming

Keynote Speakers and Local Organizing Committee Chairs

The table lists, by year, experts that have given keynote addresses at past CICLing conferences, as well as the chairs of the Local Organizing Committee.
YearKeynote SpeakersLocal Chair
2000Richard Kittredge, Igor Mel'čukAlexander Gelbukh
2001Graeme Hirst, Sylvain KahaneAlexander Gelbukh
2002Ruslan Mitkov, Ivan Sag, Yorick WilksAlexander Gelbukh
2003Eric Brill, Aravind Joshi, Adam Kilgarriff, Ted PedersenAlexander Gelbukh
2004Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nick Campbell, Martin Kay, Philip ResnikSangYong Han
2005Christian Boitet, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Ellen RiloffAlexander Gelbukh
2006Eduard Hovy, Nancy Ide, Rada MihalceaAlexander Gelbukh
2007Gregory Grefenstette, Kathleen McKeown, Raymond MooneyAlexander Gelbukh
2008Ido Dagan, Eva Hajičová, Alon Lavie, Kemal OflazerShuly Wintner
2009Jill Burstein, Ken Church, Dekang Lin, Bernardo MagniniAlexander Gelbukh
2010James Pustejovsky, Shuly WintnerCorina Forǎscu
2011Chris Manning, Diana McCarthy, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Hans UszkoreitYasunari Harada
2012Srinivas Bangalore, John A. Carroll, Marie-Francine Moens, Salim RoukosNiladri Chatterjee
2013Sophia Ananiadou, Walter Daelemans, Roberto Navigli, Michael ThelwallEfstathios Stamatatos
2014Jerry Hobbs, Bing Liu, Suresh Manandhar, Johanna MooreSagun Dhakhwa
2015Erik Cambria, Mona Talat Diab, Lauri Karttunen, Joakim NivreSamhaa R. El-Beltagy
2016Pascale Fung, Tomas Mikolov, Simone Teufel, Piek VossenHatem Haddad
2017Marco Baroni, Iryna Gurevych, Björn Schuller, Hinrich SchützeAttila Novák
2018Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Jing Jiang, Soujanya Poria, Fabrizio SebastianiAntoine Doucet
2019Antoine Doucet