<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Final CFP: </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">First International </span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology</span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">(<a href="http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/" target="_blank">http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/</a>)</span></span><br>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US">The First International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Human Language Technology (<a href="http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">http://www.iitp.ac.in/opthlt2012/</span></a>) will be held in conjunction with COLING-12</span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">.</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US">The aim of the workshop is to bring together the communities who are working in the areas of evolutionary computation, optimization techniques, machine learning, language technology/Natural Language Processing, information retrieval, and text mining. The workshop will be a starting platform to explore the possibilities of interdisciplinary research that will focus on developing optimization based methods within the context of human language technology. Almost all the research and development activities in human language technology rely on the high level of performance to satisfy the users intended needs, and have to deal with many objectives and parameters. For example, in Information Retrieval, it is often necessary to optimize the recall and precision parameters. In automatic summarisation, it is desired to optimize different objective functions like similarity to user query, ROUGE metric, important sentence score, and difference in length between the scored sentence and the desired sentence. Other examples of optimization in NLP include parsing, machine translation, and computational models of language acquisition.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US">We will solicit submissions in, but not limited to, the following topics:</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 1. General and Evolutionary Algorithms in Optimization Techniques.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 2. Optimization Techniques for Sentence Classification and Automatic</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> Summarization. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 3. Optimization in Question-Answering.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 4. Optimization in Named Entity Recognition, Part-of-Speech Tagging</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> and other sequential learning problems. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 5. Optimization in Machine Translation.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 6. Optimization in Information Extraction and Information Retrieval.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 7. Optimization in Sentiment Analysis, Anaphora/Coreference resolution etc.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 8. Optimization techniques in bio-informatics and biomedical text</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> mining applications. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> 9. Optimization techniques in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US">Please use the submission and formatting guidelines of COLING workshops (<a href="http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/</span></a>). The COLING 2012 style files are:</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> * LaTeX: <a href="http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/doc/coling-latex.zip" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">http://www.coling2012-iitb.org/doc/coling-latex.zip</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Three presentation formats</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">:</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">There will be three presentation formats: oral for full paper, Poster for short paper and Demo. Papers are in English. AT SUBMISSION TIME, PLEASE ANONYMISE everywhere.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:justify;LINE-HEIGHT:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Submission and reviewing will be on-line, managed by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is PDF. Supplementary material- if any, in the form of tools or resources- must be in the form of a single .zip or a .tgz archive file with a maximum size of 10MB; otherwise there are no constraints on its format. Submissions, together with all supplementary material, must be uploaded on the START system by the submission deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible (especially if they contain large supplementary material files).</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Submission link: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2012/OTHLT15" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">https://www.softconf.com/coling2012/OTHLT15</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"> <a href="http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf</span></a> & <a href="http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQ-TVisa170510.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQ-TVisa170510.pdf</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">In case of difficulties, please get in touch with the conference secretariat at <a href="mailto:swati@cimglobal.net" target="_blank"><span style="COLOR:blue">swati@cimglobal.net</span></a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Submissions Deadline: October 20, 2012</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Notification of Acceptances: November 05, 2012</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt">Camera ready submissions: November 15, 2012</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">-</span>Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan<u> </u><span> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span> </span>-Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India</font></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Malay Bhattacharyya, Kalyani University, India </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Benjamin Boerschingen, Macquarie University, Australia </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research India </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>-</span><span>Gaël Harry Dias, University of Caen Basse-Normadie, France</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Soumyajit Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Patrick Saint-Dizier, Institut de Recherches en Informatique</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> de Toulouse, France</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Lan Du, Macquarie University, Australia </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Veronique Hoste, University College Ghent, Belgium</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Nitin Indurkya, University of New South Wales, Australia</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> -</span> Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, University of Maryland College Park, USA </font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Zornitsa Kozareva, Information Sciences Institute / University</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> of Southern California, USA </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - A Kumaran, Microsoft Research India</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Samrat Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Kalyani University, India </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Alexander M. Rush, MIT/Columbia, USA</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Ashok Singh Sairam, Indian Institute of Technology Patna</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Soumi Sengupta, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Jyoti Prakash Singh, National Institute of Technology Patna, India</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Olga Uryupina, University of Trento, Italy</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Sriram Venkatapathy, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> - Jose Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain</font></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> - Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> - Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> - Sriparna Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> - Mark Johnson, Department of Computing, Macquarie</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> University, Australia. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> - Diego Molla-Aliod, Department of Computing, Macquarie</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> University, Australia.</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US"> - Mark Dras, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt"></span></font></span></font></span></font></span></font></p>
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> Asif Ekbal</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Assistant Professor<br>Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>Indian Institute of Technology Patna<br>Patna 800 013, India<br>Email: <a href="mailto:asif.ekbal@gmail.com,asif@iitp.ac.in" target="_blank">asif.ekbal@gmail.com,asif@iitp.ac.in</a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.iitp.ac.in/departments/cse/iit_patna_cse_Asif_Ekbal.htm" target="_blank">http://www.iitp.ac.in/departments/cse/iit_patna_cse_Asif_Ekbal.htm</a><br></font></div>
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