<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><BR><BR>ICON-2011: NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING</DIV>
<DIV> ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI, INDIA</DIV>
<DIV> 16 - 19 December 2011</DIV>
<DIV> Organized by<BR> NLP Association, India<BR> International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India<BR> AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, Chennai, India<BR> Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), CIIL, Mysore</DIV>
<DIV><BR> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS</DIV>
<DIV><BR>The Ninth International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON-2011) will be held at Anna University, Chennai, India during 16-19 December, 2011. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 18-19 December 2011. This will be preceded by two days of pre-conference tutorials and workshops on 16-17 Dec 2011.</DIV>
<DIV>1. TOPICS:</DIV>
<DIV>Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:</DIV>
<DIV> Morphology Parsing<BR> Phonology Word Sense Disambiguation<BR> Syntax Machine Translation<BR> Semantics Information Retrieval<BR> Discourse Text Summarization<BR>
Pragmatics Question Answering<BR> Statistical methods Dialog Systems<BR> Knowledge-based methods Performance Evaluation<BR> Annotated Corpora Speech Corpora<BR> Lexical Resources Speech Recognition<BR> Ontology Speech Synthesis<BR> POS tagging</DIV>
<DIV>The authors must mark the topic of their paper at the time of submission.</DIV>
<DIV>2. TRACKS</DIV>
<DIV>2.1 The authors have to submit the papers under any one of the following<BR> categories.</DIV>
<DIV> - Theoretical Linguistics<BR> - Theoretical computational linguistics<BR> - Empirical/data-driven approaches<BR> - Paradigms/techniques/strategies<BR> - Resources and evaluation<BR> - Applications/systems</DIV>
<DIV>2.2 Special track<BR> - Natural Language Software Engineering<BR> - Linguistic Engineering</DIV>
<DIV>2.3 Position Papers<BR> A paper which expresses an opinion or point of view affecting<BR> the field.</DIV>
<DIV>3. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:</DIV>
<DIV>Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted at <A href="http://www.iiit.ac.in/icon2011">www.iiit.ac.in/icon2011</A>. One can also submit hard copies (four copies) under special circumstances. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200 words. Papers outside the specified length are subject to rejection without review. Please see the style file at <A href="http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/">www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/</A></DIV>
<DIV>BLIND REVIEW:<BR>Kindly ensure that authors' names and affiliations are given only on a separate cover sheet. Papers in electronic form can be in plain text, Postscript, PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF only). If your paper contains text of languages other than English, please attach relevant font files along with your submission.</DIV>
<DIV>4. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS:</DIV>
<DIV>Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.</DIV>
<DIV>Workshops on Linguistic aspects of South Asian Languagaes are also welcome.</DIV>
<DIV>Send tutorial/Workshop proposals to the ICON-2011 Secretariat. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2011 Secretariat.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>5.NLP TOOLS CONTEST ON ANAPHORA RESOLUTION IN INDIAN LANGUAGES:</DIV>
<DIV>The ICON2011 tools contest is on Anaphora Resolution in Indian languages (IL). Any entity that is referred to another entity preceding it is called an anaphor. The referent to the anaphor is termed as the antecedent. The identification of the antecedent of an anaphora automatically is anaphora resolution.</DIV>
<DIV>CONTEST:</DIV>
<DIV>Participants will be provided training, development and test data to report the efficiency of their Anaphora Resolution System. Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu languages will be explored. The task of the contest is to identify the antecedents for an anaphor from a POS, NP Chunked and NE tagged corpus. Efficiency of the system is measured using Precision and Recall. Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results in a special session at ICON 2011.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>The development data will be provided on 30th August 2011</DIV>
<DIV>The test data will be provided on 1st October 2011.<BR> System submission by 30th October 2011<BR> Report Submission by 15th November 2011.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>The Contest will have two prizes :<BR> FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-<BR> SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-</DIV>
<DIV>6. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES:</DIV>
<DIV>ICON-2011 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:<BR> Track I : NLP (All areas)<BR> Track II : Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)</DIV>
<DIV>Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out. The prizes are::</DIV>
<DIV> FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-<BR> SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-</DIV>
<DIV>The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact Student Paper Competition Chair on <A href="mailto:icon2011@iiit.ac.in">icon2011@iiit.ac.in</A>.</DIV>
<DIV>7. IMPORTANT DATES:<BR> Paper registration deadline Jul 25, 2011<BR> Paper submission deadline Jul 25, 2011<BR> Paper acceptance notification Sep 15, 2011<BR> Camera ready copy due Oct 15, 2011</DIV>
<DIV> Tutorial/Workshop proposals due Aug 7, 2011<BR> Tutorial acceptance notification Aug 16,2011<BR> Lecture Materials for tutorial Nov 7, 2011</DIV>
<DIV> NLP Tools Contest registration<BR> deadline Jul 21, 2011<BR> Student Paper Competition<BR> submission deadline Aug 7, 2011</DIV>
<DIV><BR>8. COMMITTEES:</DIV>
<DIV> ADVISORY COMMITTEE<BR> Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Chair)<BR> Junichi Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China<BR> B Yegnanarayana, IIIT Hyderabad, India</DIV>
<DIV><BR> CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR<BR> Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India</DIV>
<DIV> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<BR> Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad, India (Chair)<BR> Sobha L, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India (Co-Chair)<BR> Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India<BR> Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research, USA<BR> Anupam Basu, IIT Kharagpur, India<BR> Peri Bhaskararao, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan<BR> Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, USA<BR> Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India<BR> Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan<BR> Amba P Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad, India<BR> A Kumaran, Microsoft Research, India<BR> B.Mallikarjun, CIIL Mysore,
India<BR> Hema A. Murthy, IIT Madras, India<BR> Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Uppsala<BR> Achla M Raina, IIT Kanpur, India<BR> L Ramamoorthy, CIIL Mysore, India<BR> Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA<BR> Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur, India<BR> K V Subbarao, University of Delhi, India<BR> Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan<BR> Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad, India<BR> Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK</DIV>
<DIV><BR> TOOLS CONTEST CHAIR<BR> Sobha L, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India (Chair)<BR> Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India (Co-Chair)</DIV>
<DIV> STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION CHAIR<BR> Sriram Venkatapathy, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France</DIV>
<DIV> ORGANIZING CHAIR<BR> C N Krishnan, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India</DIV>
<DIV>9. CONTACT INFORMATION<BR> ICON-2011 Secretariat<BR> Language Technologies Research Centre<BR> International Institute of Information Technology<BR> Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, India<BR> Ph: +91-40-6653 1333 Fax: +91-40-6653 1413<BR> e-mail: <A href="mailto:icon2011@iiit.ac.in">icon2011@iiit.ac.in</A><BR> <A href="http://www.iiit.ac.in/icon2011">www.iiit.ac.in/icon2011</A></DIV>
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