What are the top international conferences in the field of NLP?
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Now in the era of artificial intelligence, the emergence of a new technology can often subvert a certain product or even a certain industry, thus giving birth to new unicorn companies or even industry giants, such as the hot CV 4 in the field of computer vision in China in recent years. Xiaolong (Shangtang, Megvii, Yitu, Yuncong).
In the field of NLP, due to the limitations of many factors such as technology and business application scenarios, there are no unicorn-level companies yet. But this does not mean that NLP has no development prospects. As Bill Gates said, "NLP is the jewel in the crown of artificial intelligence", and it is a career worthy of all in.
Therefore, as a practitioner in the field of NLP, we must always pay attention to the latest scientific research trends of academia or AI Labs of large manufacturers, and understand the trend of technological development, so as to make product planning and technology pre-research in advance.
For NLPer, the best way to understand scientific research trends is to pay attention to top conference papers. The more influential top conferences related to NLP mainly include ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, ICLR, AAAI, CoNLL, NLPCC, etc.
Among them, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and COLING are known as the four top conferences in the NLP field. ACL, NAACL and EMNLP are all sponsored by ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics), while COLING is sponsored by ICCL (International Committee on Computational Linguistics).
ACL
Founded in 1962, ACL is the highest-level academic conference in the field of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It is hosted by the Association for Computational Linguistics and is held annually. This society hosts the most authoritative international conference in the field of NLP/CL, namely the ACL Annual Conference. The ACL Society will also hold sub-annual conferences in North America and Europe, called NAACL and EACL respectively.
ACL is one of the most influential and dynamic international academic organizations in the world. It holds a conference every summer for scholars to publish papers and share the latest achievements. Its members come from more than 60 countries and regions around the world, and it is the highest in the field of NLP. A level international academic organization, representing the highest level of international computational linguistics.
At the opening ceremony of the 56th International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Annual Conference in 2018, Marti Hearst, chairman of ACL, announced the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL, The Asia-Pacific Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics), which is planned to be held in 2020 The first meeting will be held every two years thereafter, and the meeting place will be set in the Asia-Pacific region.
EMNLP
EMNLP is the top international conference in the field of natural language processing hosted by the SIGDAT group under the International Linguistic Association (ACL), focusing on the academic discussion of natural language algorithms in various fields. EMNLP is held once a year.
ACL has a long history, and its positioning is mainly biased towards research related to computational linguistics theory, while EMNLP is relatively flexible, and is more inclined to academic discussions on solutions of natural language algorithms in different fields.
NACAL
NACAL is the North American chapter of ACL and is held annually. For now, everyone's recognition of it is higher than EACL (European Chapter).
ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL are all held annually, because they are held by the same academic organization, so there will be some interesting unspoken rules. For example, ACL and EMNLP will be held on different continents in turn, and whenever ACL is held in North America, NAACL will be closed for that year (similarly, when ACL is held in Europe, EACL will be closed for that year).
COLLING
COLING is organized by ICCL (The International Committee on Computational Linguistics), a veteran NLP/CL academic organization. It has been held every two years since 1965.
AAAI
AAAI was founded in 1979 and sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. It was originally named "American Association for Artificial Intelligence" (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), and it was officially renamed "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence" in 2007. Intelligence).
AAAI aims to promote the research and responsible use of artificial intelligence. It also aims to increase public understanding of artificial intelligence, improve the teaching and training of artificial intelligence practitioners, and provide advice on the importance and potential of current artificial intelligence development and future directions. Research planners and funders provide guidance.
In January 2020, Professor Zhou Zhihua of Nanjing University announced on Weibo that Professor Yang Qiang, chief artificial intelligence officer of WeBank, will serve as the chairman of the AAAI 2021 conference. This will be the second chairman and the first Chinese chairman in the history of the AAAI conference.
ICLR
ICLR was initiated by big names such as Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio. The first session was established in 2013, and the session created an open review mechanism (open review). Although it is a very young conference, it has become an important conference that cannot be ignored in the field of deep learning.
ICLR mainly publishes cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning, covering artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, text understanding, games and robotics.
CoNLL
CoNLL is organized by SIGDAT every year, and it is also a very influential technical evaluation conference in the NLP field.
NLPCC
The full name of NLPCC is CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. The conference is sponsored by China Computer Federation (CCF), and undertaken by CCF Chinese Information Technology Professional Committee (CCF TCCI) and universities (by voting every year). The content of the conference mainly revolves around two aspects: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Chinese Computing (CC).
The NLPCC conference includes a number of technical evaluations, academic frontier workshops (ADL), main conferences (including invited keynote reports, paper reports Oral, wall posters, seminar Workshops) and other activities. It is the first international conference in the field of NLP in China.
In 2019, the China Computer Federation (CCF) released the latest version of the "Catalogue of International Academic Conferences and Journals Recommended by the China Computer Federation" . Among them, the recommended international academic conferences in the field of artificial intelligence are as follows:
Common terms in the field of natural language processing are as follows:
ACL: Association for Computational Linguistics (Association for Computational Linguistics)
EMNLP: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Natural Language Processing Empirical Methods Conference)
COLING: International Conference on Computational Linguistics (International Conference on Computational Linguistics)
NAACL: North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
EACL: European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
AFNLP: Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (Asian Natural Language Processing Alliance)
ALPAC: Automated Language Processing Advisory Committee (Language Automatic Processing Advisory Committee)
NEALT: Northern European Association for Language Technology (Nordic Language Technology Association)
CICLing: International Conference on Intelligent text processing and Computational Linguistics (International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics)
AI: Artificial Intelligence
NLP: Natural Language Processing (Natural Language Processing)
NLU: Natural Language Understanding (Natural Language Understanding)
NLG: Natural Language Generation (natural language generation)
ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition (automatic speech recognition)
TTS: Text To Speech (Speech Synthesis)
IE: Information Extraction (information extraction)
IR: Information Retrieval (information retrieval)
NE: Named Entity (named entity)
NER: Named Entity Recognition (named entity recognition)
CRF: Conditional Random Fields (conditional random field)
DRS: Discourse Representation Structure
DRT: Discourse Representation Theory
EM: Expectation Maximization
HMM: Hidden Markov Model (Hidden Markov Model)
LFG: Lexical Functional Grammar (lexical functional grammar)
LSA: Latent Semantic Analysis (latent semantic analysis)
LSI: Latent Semantic Indexing (latent semantic index)
ME: Maximum Entropy (maximum entropy)
MI: Mutual Information
ML: Machine Learning
MT: Mechanical Translation/Machine Translation (machine translation)
POS: Part of Speech (part of speech)
SLT: Spoken Language Translation
SVM: Support Vector Machine (Support Vector Machine)
VSM: Vector Space Model (Vector Space Model)
WSD: Word Sense Disambiguation (Word Sense Disambiguation)
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