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<div>in Beijing, just after COLING2010. There are 4 backoff tasks as follows:</div><div><br></div><div> Task1: Chinese Word Segmentation (focus on domain adaption)</div><div> Task2: Chinese Parsing</div><div> Task3: Chinese Personal Name disambiguation</div>
<div> Task4: Chinese Word Sense Induction</div><div><br></div><div>Registration is open. Welcome your participation.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br>
</div><div>Call for papers: CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on </div><div>Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010) </div><div>August 28-29, Beijing, China </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfp.htm">http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfp.htm</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>Background and Goals </div><div><br></div><div>With the rapid of expansion of Chinese language materials on the </div><div>Internet, the use of natural language technology as a way of harnessing Chinese language content is drawing growing interest from researchers around the globe. The rise of China as a global power with increasing influence on the world stage is only fanning this interest. The Chinese language also has a number of characteristics that make Chinese language processing particularly challenging and intellectually rewarding. For example, written Chinese text does not have conventionalized word boundaries like English and other Western languages, and researchers have devoted an enormous amount of energy to figuring out the best way to identify words, which is generally considered to the first step for more advanced language processing tasks. There have been four successful international Chinese word segmentation bakeoffs sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing ( SIGHAN ), and they have drawn wide participation and have greatly advanced the state-of-the-art in this area. The Chinese language is also characterized by the lack of formal devices such as morphological tense and number that often provide important clues for shallow language processing tasks like part-of-speech tagging and syntactic chunking. As a result, solutions to Chinese language processing problems often require more sophisticated language processing techniques that are capable of drawing inferences from more subtle information. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Against this backdrop, the first conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010) jointly organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China ( CIPS ) and SIGHAN, will be held on August 28-29, 2010 in Beijing, right after COLING 2010 and in the same venue. The goal is to bring together both established and aspiring researchers around the globe and provide a unified forum for them to showcase their research achievements, share their ideas, and frame research problems that are crucial in advancing the state-of-the-art in Chinese language processing. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Chinese language processing, including but not limited to: </div><div><br></div><div> word segmentation </div>
<div> part-of-speech tagging </div><div> syntactic chunking and parsing </div><div> lexical semantics </div><div> semantic role labeling </div><div> word sense disambiguation </div><div>
lexicon acquisition </div><div> corpus development and language resources </div><div> evaluation methods and user studies </div><div> computational models of discourse </div><div> temporal and spatial information processing </div>
<div> sentimental analysis and opinion mining </div><div> language generation </div><div> information extraction </div><div> question answering </div><div> information retrieval </div><div>
dialogue systems </div><div> machine translation </div><div><br></div><div>The CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing will also feature four international bake-offs in Chinese Language Processing, and these are: </div>
<div><br></div><div> Chinese word segmentation </div><div> Chinese Parsing </div><div> Chinese Personal Name disambiguation </div><div> Chinese Word Sense Induction </div><div><br></div><div>Please visit the website ( <a href="http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfpa.htm">http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfpa.htm</a> ) for the details on these competitions. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Submission Method </div><div><br></div><div>Papers should be written in English and may not exceed 8 pages (including all illustrations, references and appendices, and using 11pt for the main text). We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or MS Word document template provided by COLING 2010, available at <a href="http://www.coling-2010.org">http://www.coling-2010.org</a> . Since reviewing will be blind, manuscripts should not include authors' names and affiliations. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Important Dates </div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2010 </div><div>Notification of Paper Acceptance: Jun 30, 2010 </div><div>Camera Ready Submission Deadline: July 10, 2010 </div>
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