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Aim and scope

In full compliance with its name, the annual International Dialogue conference held  in Russia for more than 30 years has been an event where theoretical linguists and natural language processing specialists are able to discuss their ideas and share expertise.

Since many NLP researchers believe that modern computational linguistics often disregards sophisticated and advanced linguistic theories and data and only makes use of basic and sometimes even simplistic language models, this tradition of free discussion and synergy is very important.

The main goal of the Dialogue Conference and its book of proceedings, “Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies”, is to promote the theoretical linguistic trend in computational linguistics.

It goes without saying that the organizing committee of the conference and the editors of the book of proceedings also accept papers written within the current statistical and data-driven mainstream but we do encourage the applicants to contribute papers that combine the potentials of sophisticated data accessible through modern linguistic resources, including text corpora, with the findings of pure linguistics.

We believe that this approach is a distinctive feature of the Dialogue conference which distinguishes it from many other events focusing on computational linguistics.

 In particular, the conference invites papers belonging to all NLP disciplines, including information retrieval and information search, data mining, machine translation, speech recognition and synthesis, computational lexicography, automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge, as well as work in lexical semantics, theoretical and formal syntax, and the theory of communication.

Each year we select one or two key topics for conference discussions. In 2011 the key topics were in-depth analysis of text corpora and methods of corpus-based research. The choice of topics focused on qualitative and quantitative analysis of text corpora was explained by the fact that at present most linguistic projects or studies heavily rely on the data obtained from  corpora, yet not all of these studies take clear account of what parameters should the underlying corpora have in order to attain reliable research results.

The Dialogue conference has two official working languages: Russian and English, which reflects the unique character of the conference that aims at bridging the world’s best achievements in computational linguistics and the research into Russian as the object of modeling and deep analysis in this country, considering the fact that so far this language has not been among those extensively covered by computational linguistics.

We do hope that the Dialogue conference and its proceedings will contribute to the development of computational linguistics in general as well as its issues associated with the Russian language.

It is for this particular purpose that we invite the world’s most renowned specialists in the field to give talks at the conference and contribute papers to the book of proceedings.

ISSN 2221-7932 (Print), ISSN 2075-7182 (Online)