Doctoral Consortium

Time: 11:30-12:30, October 4, 2019 (Day 2)


Location: Dr. Wan-Rone Liou Memorial Auditorium, B1, Elytone Building for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Chair: Prof. Kuan-Yu Menphis Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology


Program Committee:

  • Prof. Yuan-Fu Liao, National Taipei University of Technology
  • Dr. Syu-Siang Wang, Academia Sinica


Speakers:

  • Yu-Chen Lin (林育丞), National Taiwan Normal University
    • Efficient-Processing Designs of Operating System and Deep Neural Networks on Embedded Devices
  • Yu-Chih Deng (鄧有志), National Chiao Tung University
    • 中文自發性語音辨識研究

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (past event)

The Doctoral Consortium at ROCLING 2019 will provide an opportunity for a group of senior Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research and career objectives with a panel of established researchers. The event is also an opportunity for students to develop the skills necessary to effectively communicate one's research in preparation for future job talks. The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a special session of ROCLING 2019. Students will present their work and get feedback from experienced researchers.

The consortium has the following objectives:

  1. to provide feedback on participants' research and on the presentation of their work to others
  2. to develop a supportive community of scholars
  3. to support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths
  4. to contribute to the ROCLING conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in conference events


Eligibility for Participation

The event is designed for senior Ph.D. students who are in the last few years of their doctoral program (who have already settled on a research direction and who have likely already submitted a thesis proposal). Students who are conducting research on all aspects of human language processing are invited to apply. Topics include (but are not limited to):

Computational Linguistics

  • Cognitive/Psychological linguistics
  • Computational semantics
  • Computational pragmatics
  • Computational morphology
  • Computational phonology
  • Discourse processing
  • Dialogue system
  • Natural language generation
  • Syntax and parsing
  • Word segmentation / POS tagging / Chunking

Information Understanding

  • Information extraction and database linking
  • Information retrieval
  • Language learning
  • Machine translation/Multi-lingual systems
  • Named entity recognition
  • NLP tools/resources
  • Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
  • Question answering
  • Semantic processing
  • Summarization
  • Textual entailment
  • Applications / software / Tools

Speech Processing

  • Spoken language processing
  • Speech analysis
  • Speech understanding
  • Speech synthesis/conversion
  • Speech/speaker/language recognition
  • Speech based affective computing
  • Speech summarization
  • Speech enhancement
  • Speech coding
  • Text-to-speech

As part of the application process, students will submit a short paper, which can be can be written in either Chinese or English, summarizing their research goals, completed work, and future directions. This paper should be the basis for the student's presentation at the Doctoral Consortium event, which should follow the format of an abbreviated job talk. Thus, the paper should give an overview of the student's research and highlight his or her contributions; the paper may include citations to previous publications that describe more specific aspects of the student's research. Each submission will be reviewed by the doctoral consortium committee based on the relevance, innovation, content and quality. Accepted papers will be published in the ROCLING 2019 conference proceedings and included in the ACL Anthology. Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortium must give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work.


Application Procedure

Applications should contain the following four elements:

  1. A cover letter (under 2-pages) describing the student's progress in his or her degree program, expected date of graduation, plans after graduation, and what he or she hopes to gain from the Doctoral Consortium. The letter should contain the student's name, department, school, contact information, name of advisor, advisor's e-mail address, and a short statement affirming that the student meets the eligibility requirements specified in this Call for Participation.
  2. The student's Curriculum Vitae (including a list of publications).
  3. A short paper written by the student summarizing his or her research goals, completed work, and future directions. This paper should be the basis for the student's presentation at the Doctoral Consortium event, and it should give an overview of the student's research and highlight his or her major contributions.
  4. A letter of recommendation from the student's advisor.

The student should send email to kychen@csie.ntust.edu.tw, with four attachments in PDF format: the cover letter, the Curriculum Vitae, the short paper, and a recommendation letter.

The short paper should follow the format of ROCLING proceedings and should not exceed four (6) pages, including references. The template files will be available through the ROCLING homepage. We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these styles including font size restrictions. Submissions should be in PDF format and must include all fonts, so that the paper will print (not just view) anywhere.

Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.


Important Dates

All application materials must be received by 11:59pm (23:59) PST (Pacific Standard Time) on Sep. 2, 2019. Late submissions will be automatically disqualified.

  • Application deadline: Sep. 2, 2019
  • Notification of acceptance: Sep. 9, 2019
  • Camera-ready papers due: Sep. 16, 2019
  • Doctoral Consortium Event: Oct. 4, 2019
  • ROCLING 2019 Conference: Oct. 3-5, 2019


Contact Information

If you need to contact the co-chairs of the Doctoral Consortium, please use: kychen@csie.ntust.edu.tw.