# International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

CICLing (International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing; before 2017 known under the name International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) is an annual conference on computational linguistics (CL) and natural language processing (NLP). 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 the top 20 sources (conferences and journals) 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 (CL), natural language processing (NLP), human language technologies (HLT), natural-language human-computer interaction (HCI), as well as speech processing and speech recognition (SR).
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 (MRD), grammar, anaphora resolution, word sense disambiguation (WSD), machine translation (MT), information retrieval (IR), information extraction (IE), document handling, document classification and text classification, text summarization, text mining (TM), opinion mining, sentiment analysis, plagiarism detection, and spell checking (spelling).
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.
| Year | Country | City | Submissions | Countries | Accepted | Acceptance Rate | Notes |
| 2000 | Mexico | Mexico City | 34 | 10 | 32 | 94.1 | |
| 2001 | Mexico | Mexico City | 72 | 10 | 53 | 73.6 | First time published in LNCS |
| 2002 | Mexico | Mexico City | 67 | 19 | 48 | 71.6 | |
| 2003 | Mexico | Mexico City | 92 | 23 | 67 | 72.8 | |
| 2004 | Korea | Seoul | 129 | 21 | 74 | 57.4 | |
| 2005 | Mexico | Mexico City | 151 | 26 | 88 | 58.3 | |
| 2006 | Mexico | Mexico City | 176 | 37 | 59 | 33.5 | |
| 2007 | Mexico | Mexico City | 179 | 34 | 53 | 29.6 | |
| 2008 | Israel | Haifa | 204 | 39 | 52 | 25.5 | |
| 2009 | Mexico | Mexico City | 167 | 40 | 44 | 26.3 | |
| 2010 | Romania | Iași | 271 | 47 | 61 | 23.0 | |
| 2011 | Japan | Tokyo | 298 | 48 | 74 | 24.8 | |
| 2012 | India | New Delhi | 307 | 46 | 88 | 28.6 | |
| 2013 | Greece | Samos | 354 | 55 | 87 | 24.6 | |
| 2014 | Nepal | Kathmandu | 300 | 57 | 85 | 28.3 | |
| 2015 | Egypt | Cairo | 329 | 62 | 95 | 28.9 | |
| 2016 | Turkey | Konya | 298 | 54 | 89 | 29.8 | In memoriam of Adam Kilgarriff |
| 2017 | Hungary | Budapest | 356 | 60 | 86 | 24.2 | |
| 2018 | Vietnam | Hanoi | | | | |
| 2019 | France | La Rochelle | | | | | Forthcoming |

## 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.
| Year | Keynote Speakers | Local Chair |
| 2000 | Richard Kittredge, Igor Mel'čuk | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2001 | Graeme Hirst, Sylvain Kahane | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2002 | Ruslan Mitkov, Ivan Sag, Yorick Wilks | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2003 | Eric Brill, Aravind Joshi, Adam Kilgarriff, Ted Pedersen | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2004 | Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nick Campbell, Martin Kay, Philip Resnik | SangYong Han |
| 2005 | Christian Boitet, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Ellen Riloff | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2006 | Eduard Hovy, Nancy Ide, Rada Mihalcea | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2007 | Gregory Grefenstette, Kathleen McKeown, Raymond Mooney | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2008 | Ido Dagan, Eva Hajičová, Alon Lavie, Kemal Oflazer | Shuly Wintner |
| 2009 | Jill Burstein, Ken Church, Dekang Lin, Bernardo Magnini | Alexander Gelbukh |
| 2010 | James Pustejovsky, Shuly Wintner | Corina Forăscu |
| 2011 | Chris Manning, Diana McCarthy, Jun'ichi Tsujii, Hans Uszkoreit | Yasunari Harada |
| 2012 | Srinivas Bangalore, John A. Carroll, Marie-Francine Moens, Salim Roukos | Niladri Chatterjee |
| 2013 | Sophia Ananiadou, Walter Daelemans, Roberto Navigli, Michael Thelwall | Efstathios Stamatatos |
| 2014 | Jerry Hobbs, Bing Liu, Suresh Manandhar, Johanna Moore | Sagun Dhakhwa |
| 2015 | Erik Cambria, Mona Talat Diab, Lauri Karttunen, Joakim Nivre | Samhaa R. El-Beltagy |
| 2016 | Pascale Fung, Tomas Mikolov, Simone Teufel, Piek Vossen | Hatem Haddad |
| 2017 | Marco Baroni, Iryna Gurevych, Björn Schuller, Hinrich Schütze | Attila Novák |
| 2018 | Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Jing Jiang, Soujanya Poria, Fabrizio Sebastiani | Antoine Doucet |
| 2019 | | Antoine Doucet |