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<DIV>First Call for Papers</DIV>
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<DIV>International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 (IALP
2012)</DIV>
<DIV>Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov 13-15, 2012</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.mica.edu.vn/IALP-2012">http://www.mica.edu.vn/IALP-2012</A></DIV>
<DIV>Paper Submission deadline: Jul 1,2012</DIV>
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<DIV>The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a
series of conferences with unique focus on Asian Language Processing. The
conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspects of
Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in the different
fields of language study all over the world to meet. The first meeting of the
series was held in Singapore in 1986 and was called the "International
Conference on Chinese Computing (ICCC)" then. This meeting initiated the study
of Chinese and oriental languages processing in Singapore and resulted in the
formation of COLIPS in Singapore in 1988, as well as the publication of the
journal "Communications of COLIPS" in 1991, which is known as "International
Journal on Asian Language Processing" today.</DIV>
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<DIV>Over the years, IALP has developed into one of important anaual events on
nature language processing in Asia. IALP 2008 was held in Chiang Mai University,
Thailand and the proceedings were indexed by ISTP/ISI. IALP 2009 was held in
Singapore and was co-organized by COLIPS and IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter.
IALP 2010 was held in Harbin and was co-organized by COLIPS and IEEE Singapore
Computer Chapter, Chinese Information Processing Society of China and
Heilongjiang Institute of Technology (HIT). IALP 2011 was held in Penang,
Malaisia and jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information
Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore, IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter, and
Universiti Sains Malaysia. The proceedings of IALP 2009,2010 and 2011 were
published by CPS (Conference Publication Services) and submitted for indexing in
EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on Diskette.</DIV>
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<DIV>This year, the International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012
(IALP 2012) will be jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages
Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore, IEEE Vietnam Computer
Chapter, and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (and MICA Institute).
The conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam on Nov 13-15, 2012. The 2012
edition (IALP 2012) will focus on under-resourced languages studies. We will
continue to work with CPS to publish the conference proceesings. They will be
included in the IEEE Xplore digital library and submitted for indexing in
INSPEC, EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on Diskette.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Noi, "River Interior") is the capital and
second-largest city of Vietnam. As the capital of Vietnam for almost a thousand
years. Hanoi hosts more cultural sites than any city in Vietnam, including over
600 pagodas and temples.Hanoi is is the social, cultural and economic center of
the country.The Old Quarter, near Hoan Kiem lake, has the original street layout
and architecture of old Hanoi. At the beginning of the 20th century the city
consisted of only about 36 streets, most of which are now part of the old
quarter. Each street then had merchants and households specialized in a
particular trade, such as silk traders, jewellery, etc. The street names
nowadays still reflect these specializations, although few of them remain
exclusively in their original commerce. The area is famous for its small
artisans and merchants, including many silk shops. Local cuisine specialties as
well as several clubs and bars can be found here also. A night market (near Ðong
Xuân market) in the heart of the district opens for business every Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday evening with a variety of clothing, souvenirs and food.
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<DIV>We welcome you to Vietnam to experience the nature, history, and cultural
in one of best countries in South-East Asia.</DIV>
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<DIV>CONFERENCE TOPICS</DIV>
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<DIV>Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished
research in all aspects of Asian Language Processing, including, but not limited
to:</DIV>
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<DIV>- Under-resourced language studies</DIV>
<DIV>- Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages</DIV>
<DIV>- Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages</DIV>
<DIV>- Asian character encoding and compression</DIV>
<DIV>- Multimodal representations and processing</DIV>
<DIV>- Voice input and output</DIV>
<DIV>- Phonology and morphology</DIV>
<DIV>- Lexical semantics and word sense</DIV>
<DIV>- Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse</DIV>
<DIV>- Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing</DIV>
<DIV>- Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic
parsing</DIV>
<DIV>- Discourse analysis</DIV>
<DIV>- Language, linguistic and speech resource development</DIV>
<DIV>- Evaluation methods and user studies</DIV>
<DIV>- Machine learning for natural language</DIV>
<DIV>- Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation</DIV>
<DIV>- Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval</DIV>
<DIV>- Text entailment and paraphrasing</DIV>
<DIV>- Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering</DIV>
<DIV>- Machine translation and multilingual processing</DIV>
<DIV>- Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language,
computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical
linguistics</DIV>
<DIV>- Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and
speech processing</DIV>
<DIV>- Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and
translation</DIV>
<DIV>- Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval</DIV>
<DIV>- Speech recognition and synthesis</DIV>
<DIV>- Natural language applications, tools and resources, system
evaluation</DIV>
<DIV>- Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language
learning</DIV>
<DIV>- NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal
text</DIV>
<DIV>- NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS</DIV>
<DIV>- Special hardware and software for Asian language computing</DIV>
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<DIV>PAPER SUBMISSION</DIV>
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<DIV>Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included.
Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Each
submission will be reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers
will be presented in one of the oral sessions or poster sessions as determined
by the program committee.</DIV>
<DIV>As the reviewing will be blind, manuscripts must not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Authors should ensure that their identities are not
revealed in any way in the paper. Self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".
Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without
review.</DIV>
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<DIV>All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF)
only. Paper submissions should follow the IEEE Proceedings' two-column format
without exceeding four (4) pages including references. We strongly recommend the
use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to IEEE
Proceedings' format. Submissions must conform to the official style
guidelines.</DIV>
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<DIV>The official language of the conference is English. Papers submitted should
be written in English.</DIV>
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<DIV>Papers may be submitted until July 1, 2012, in PDF format via the START
system:</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="https://www.softconf.com/d/ialp2012/">https://www.softconf.com/d/ialp2012/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>IMPORTANT DATES</DIV>
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<DIV>Submission deadline Jul 1,
2012</DIV>
<DIV>Notification of acceptance Aug 3, 2012</DIV>
<DIV>Final manuscript due Aug 17,
2012</DIV>
<DIV>Earlybird registration due Aug 19, 2012</DIV>
<DIV>Regular registration due Oct 31, 2012</DIV>
<DIV>Conference
date Nov
13-15, 2012</DIV>
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<DIV>MORE INFORMATION</DIV>
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<DIV>To get other details and the latest information about the conference,
please visit the conference website at <A
href="http://www.mica.edu.vn/IALP-2012">http://www.mica.edu.vn/IALP-2012</A>.</DIV>
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<DIV>Pham Thi Ngoc Yen and Deyi Xiong</DIV>
<DIV>Program Co-chairs, IALP 2012</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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