<DIV>Dear Colleague,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We have enclosed the call for papers for the Third International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIAWS3) to be held as part of NAACL-HLT 2009. Please circulate the call for papers through Corpora mailing list.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (Primary Contact)<BR>Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India<BR>Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad, India <BR>Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur, India<BR>A <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_0>Kumaran</SPAN>, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_1>Microsoft Research</SPAN>, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_2>India</SPAN><BR><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_3 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Raghavendra</SPAN> Udupa, Microsoft Research, India<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>CALL FOR PAPERS <BR><BR>NAACL-HLT 2009 <BR><BR>Third International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies (CLIAWS3)<BR><BR>Boulder, Colorado; June 04,2009 <BR><BR><A href="http://search.iiit.ac.in/CLIA2009/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_4><FONT color=#003399>http://search.iiit.ac.in/CLIA2009/</FONT></SPAN></A><BR><BR>Submission Deadline: March 06, 2009 <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION <BR><BR>Cross-Language Information Access is concerned with any/all technologies that let users express their query in their native language, and irrespective of the language in which the information is available, present the information in the user-preferred language or set of languages, in a manner that satisfies the user's information needs. The additional processing may take the form of machine translation of
snippets, summarization and <BR>subsequent translation of summaries and/or <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_5 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">information extraction</SPAN>.<BR><BR>This workshop aims to bring together various trends in multi-source, cross and multilingual <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_6 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">information retrieval</SPAN> and access, and provide a venue for researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to interact and share a broad spectrum of ideas, views and applications. The workshop will consist of a set of invited talks and presentations of technical papers that will be selected after peer review from the submissions received.<BR><BR>We solicit submissions describing research on all aspects of "Cross Lingual <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_7>Information Access and Retrieval</SPAN>". </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<BR><BR>* Semantic approaches to cross lingual information access<BR>* Cross-language cross media search (speech, video, audio)<BR>* Uses of (statistical) Machine Translation and Transliteration in multilingual information access<BR>* Search based on language independent forms<BR>* Cross-language text categorization<BR>* Multilingual / Cross-lingual named entity recognition<BR>* Cross-document and crosslingual entity and event coreference<BR>* Multilingual <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_8>digital libraries</SPAN><BR>* Scalability issues in multilingual information access/ system evaluation<BR>* Cross Lingual/ Multilingual question answering<BR>* Appropriate methods to detect similar/complementary/contradictory information across multiple languages<BR>* Multilingual <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_9 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Summarization</SPAN><BR>* Multilingual
Opinion Mining and <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_10 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Sentiment Analysis</SPAN><BR>* Multilingual Information Extraction<BR>* Practical systems on various domains<BR>* Acquisition of parallel and comparable corpora in multiple languages<BR>* Morphology and Shallow Parsing for CLIR<BR>* Query Translation, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_11>Query Expansion</SPAN>, Multiword handling and Lightweight WSD for CLIR<BR>* Other CLIR research issues, user studies / interactive CLIA <BR><BR><BR>SUBMISSION INFORMATION <BR><BR>Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF format (with up to 1 additional page for references). Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".<BR><BR>Papers will be accepted on or before 6 March 2009 in PDF format via the START system at <A href="https://www.softconf.com/naacl-hlt09/CLIAWS2009/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>https://www.softconf.com/naacl-hlt09/CLIAWS2009/</FONT></A>. Submissions should follow the NAACL HLT 2009 length and formatting requirements for full papers , found at <A href="http://clear.colorado.edu/NAACLHLT2009/stylefiles.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_12><FONT color=#003399>http://clear.colorado.edu/NAACLHLT2009/stylefiles.html</FONT></SPAN></A>.<BR><BR><BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES <BR><BR>Submission deadline: March 06, 2009 <BR>Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2009 <BR>Camera-ready papers due: April 12, 2009 <BR>Workshop: June 04,
2009<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR><BR>* Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (Primary Contact)<BR>* Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India<BR>* Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad, India <BR>* Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur, India<BR>* A Kumaran, Microsoft Research, India<BR>* Raghavendra Udupa, Microsoft Research, India<BR><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR><BR>* Carol Peters, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione and CLEF campaign, Italy<BR>* Kumaran A, Microsoft Research, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_13 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">Bangalore , India</SPAN><BR>* Mandar Mitra, ISI <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_14>Kolkata , India</SPAN><BR>* Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain<BR>* Patrick Saint Dizier, IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France<BR>* Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University , USA<BR>* Pushpak
Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India <BR>* Raghavendra Udupa, Microsoft Research, India<BR>* Ralf Steinberger, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_15 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">European Commission</SPAN> - <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_16 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Joint Research Centre</SPAN>, Italy<BR>* Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University , Kolkata , India<BR>* Sobha L, AU-KBC, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_17>Chennai, India</SPAN><BR>* Sudeshna Sarkar, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_18>IIT Kharagpur , India</SPAN><BR>* Vasudeva Varma, <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1228909545_19>IIIT Hyderabad , India</SPAN></DIV><BR><BR>Professor Sivaji Bandyopadhyay<br>Computer Science & Engineering Department<br>Jadavpur University<br>Kolkata - 700 032<br>INDIA<br>Phone: +913324146648
(Office)<br> +913324149690 (Residence)<br> +919433579595 (Mobile)<br>Fax: +913324146648 (Office)<br>E-mail: sivaji_cse_ju@yahoo.com<br> sbandyopadhyay@cse.jdvu.ac.in<p>