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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> CALL
FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> CLIA-2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> Second
International Workshop on<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> Cross
Lingual Information Access, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> Addressing the Information
Need of Multilingual Societies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> IJCNLP-2008,
January 11, 2008, Hyderabad, India<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'> <a
href="http://search.iiit.ac.in/CLIA2008/">http://search.iiit.ac.in/CLIA2008/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>FOCUS AND GOALS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>This workshop aims to bring
together various trends in cross and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>multi-lingual information
retrieval and access. It will provide a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>comprehensive survey of the state
of the art technology and systems, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>and present emerging technologies
in this domain. We will bring <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>together ideas from academia,
government, and industry to cover a <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>broad spectrum of applications and
views. The workshop will consist <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>of a set of invited talks and
presentations of technical papers which <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>will be selected after peer review
from the submissions received.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>We solicit submissions describing
research on all aspects of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>"Cross Lingual Information
Access and Retrieval". Topics of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>interest include but are not limited
to: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Cross-language cross media
search (speech, video, audio) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Uses of (statistical) MT in
multilingual information access <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Search based on language
independent forms <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Less-commonly taught languages <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Cross-language text
categorization <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Multilingual Cross lingual named
entity recognition <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Multilingual digital libraries <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Scalability issues in
multilingual information access/system evaluation <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Cross Lingual/ Multilingual
question answering <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Multi-lingual Summarization <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Practical systems on various
domains <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Acquisition of parallel and
comparable corpora in multiple languages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Morphology and Shallow Parsing
for CLIR <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Query Translation, Query
Expansion, Multiword handling and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'> Lightweight WSD for CLIR <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>* Other CLIR research issues, user
studies / interactive CLIA<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad,
India (Primary Contact) vv [at] iiit.ac.in<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay,
India <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur,
India <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>A Kumaran Microsoft Research,
India <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata, India<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Extended Paper Submission Deadline:
Sept 30, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Notification of Paper Acceptance:
Oct 26, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Camera Ready Submission Deadline:
Nov 16, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Workshop: January 11 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=maroon face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'>----------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=maroon face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'>Ralf Steinberger<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=maroon face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'>European Commission -
Joint Research Centre<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=maroon face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:maroon'><a
href="http://langtech.jrc.it/"><font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>http://langtech.jrc.it/</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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