Following the long tradition of PACLIC conferences, PACLIC emphasizes the synergy of theoretical frameworks and processing of natural language, providing a forum for researchers from different fields to share and discuss progress in scientific studies, development and application of the topics related to the study of languages.
The PACLIC Proceedings will be published in open-access digital formats. Past PACLIC proceeding papers have been indexed in Scopus (since PACLIC 19 in 2005) and listed in ACL Anthology. According to Google Scholar, PACLIC currently has an h5-index of 13 and an h5-median of 19.
The Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC) conference has a long history, dating back to 1982. Over the years, it has developed into one of the leading conferences in the research community. The PACLIC conferences have received a wide range of interesting research papers in the fields of theoretical and computational linguistics. The specific research topics that the papers focus on can be classified into the following categories: cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, formal grammar theory, grammar and parsing, human and machine language processing, information extraction, information retrieval, language acquisition, language resources, language technology and its application, machine translation, morphology, natural language processing, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, speech processing, syntax, and typology.
The long tradition of PACLIC conferences emphasizes the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language – from theoretical frameworks to cognitive accounts, from lexical processing to language understanding, and from computational modelling to multi-lingual applications.
The most important purpose of PACLIC conferences is to provide a forum where researchers in different fields of language study in different areas in the Pacific-Asia region working on issues pertaining to different languages can come together and talk, get to know each other, learn old wisdom, be enlightened by new insights and generally get entertained intellectually, and come home ready to initiate a new research program with new research partners in a new state of mind.
We are well aware that around the world and within the Pacific-Asia region, there are more linguistics conferences and workshops than one can care to attend and more NLP meetings than one can submit abstracts to. On the other hand, if you are working on the border of two or more fields, like contrasting Japanese and Korean reciprocals, or working on trilingual corpus of Chinese, English and Russian, sometimes it’s hard to get the right kind of audience.
Thus, PACLIC aims to be a series of ‘cross-cultural’ events. We value hybrid talks on linguistic principles and implementation details, massive data collection and extraction of abstract rules, automated proficiency evaluation and philosophical contemplation on language learning, although pure theory and pure technology will also be appreciated. We welcome bi-lingual or multi-lingual research, while due respects will be paid to mono-lingual research.
Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University
26, Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea
E-mail: paclic.steering@gmail.com