The 9th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2020) & Tutorials will be held during October 14~18, 2020 in Zhengzhou, China. We sincerely invite you to join us.

For detailed information, please refer to the following attachments and NLPCC 2020 official website: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2020/

1) About the NLPCC Conference

The CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) is the annual meeting of the CCF TCNLP (Technical Committee of Natural Language Processing, China Computer Federation). NLPCC is a leading international conference specialized in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Chinese Computing (CC). Previous NLPCC conferences were successfully held from 2012 to 2019, and the maximum number of attendees exceeded 500. The 9th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2020) will take place in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, from Oct. 14~18, 2020.

2) Events

NLPCC 2020 Conference has arranged keynotes, tutorials, multi-track sessions of research paper reports, technical workshops, student workshop, evaluation workshop, posters, and industry expo.

NLPCC 2020 Keynotes:

Keynote Topic1 : Information Extraction in the Age of Neural Networks, delivered by Prof. Claire Cardie

Prof. Claire Cardie

Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Science, Cornell University

Keynote Topic 2: Exploiting External Knowledge in Reinforcement Learning, delivered by Dr. Edward Grefenstette

Dr. Edward Grefenstette

Research scientist, Facebook AI Research and an Honorary Associate Professor, UCL

Keynote Topic 3: Open-domain Question Answering: State of the Art and Future Perspectives, delivered by Prof. Danqi Chen

Prof. Danqi Chen

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science ,Princeton University

Keynote Topic 4: Modeling, consolidating and exploring open multi-text information, delivered by Prof. Ido Dagan

Prof. Ido Dagan

Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University

For additional information, please visit the NLPCC 2020 Website:

http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2020/keynotes.php

NLPCC 2020 Tutorials(online):

Tutorial 1: Revisiting Pre-Trained Models for Natural Language Processing

Delivered by Dr. Yiming Cui

Yiming Cui

Research director, iFLYTEK Research

Tutorial 2: Machine Reasoning in NLP

Delivered by Dr. Duyu Tang

Duyu Tang

Senior Researcher, Natural Language Computing group, Microsoft Research Asia

Tutorial 3: Frontiers in GCN and Network Embedding

Delivered by Prof. Peng Cui

Peng Cui

Associate Professor with tenure, Tsinghua University

Tutorial 4: Semantic Learning and Inference Cross Vision and Language

Delivered by Prof. Zhongyu Wei and Prof. Meng Wang

Zhongyu Wei

Associate Professor, School of Data Science, Fudan University

Meng Wang

Assistant professor , Knowledge Graph & AI Research Group, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China

Tutorial 5: Formulating Different NLP Tasks under the MRC Framework

Delivered by Dr. Jiwei Li

Jiwei Li

Co-founder of Shannon.AI

For additional information, please visit the NLPCC 2020 Website:

http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2020/tutorials.php

3) Registration Cost and Discount

You can register for NLPCC 2020 on website http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2020/reg.php.

Early registrations are preferred and recommended.

4) Contacts

NLPCC 2020 (and Tutorials) Registration: Xueying Zhang zhangxueying@pku.edu.cn

Hotels and Traffic: Yingjie Han ieyjhan@zzu.edu.cn

Others: nlpccregistration@pku.edu.cn

Official Website: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2020/

Registration and online payment website: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/nlpcc/2020/index.php

Hotel reservation info: http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2020/hotels.php

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