Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics

• Dialog and interactive systems

• Discourse and pragmatics

• Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval

• Generation

• Information extraction, text mining, and question answering

• Machine learning in NLP

• Machine translation and Multilinguality

• Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation

• Resources and evaluation

• Semantics

• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining

• Social media

• Speech

• Summarization

• Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing