<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">(Apologies for cross-posting. </font><b style="text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please, distribute it among potentially interested colleagues</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">)</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IJCNLP 2013 Call for Papers, Call for Demonstrations, Call for </font><span style="font-size: small;">Tutorials, and Call for Workshop Proposals</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">IJCNLP 2013: The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural </font>Language Processing</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">October 14-19, 2013, Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">http://www.ijcnlp2013.org</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, </font>organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, will be held in Nagoya, Japan during the period October 14-19, 2013. The conference will cover a broad range of technical areas related to the computational treatment of natural language. IJCNLP 2013 will feature <span style="font-size: small;">full papers, short papers, demonstrations, tutorials, and
workshops.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">October 14: Tutorials, Pre-Conference Workshop</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">October 15-17: Main Conference</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">October 18-19: Post-Conference Workshop</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">General Chair</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Program Committee Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Jong Park, KAIST, Korea</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Local Organizing Committee Chair</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hitoshi Isahara, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">Workshop Committee Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Naoaki Okazaki, Tohoku University, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research, USA</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tutorial Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Vincent Ng, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Demo Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hang Li, Huawei Technologies Co., China</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Sponsorship Committee Chair</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hiromi Nakaiwa, NTT, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Publication Committee Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Finance Committee Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Masayuki Okabe, Toyohashi
University of Technology, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Publicity Committee Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Diego Moll?-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Call for Papers</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IJCNLP 2013 invites submissions of papers reporting original and </font>unpublished research on all aspects of language processing and computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following: Phonology; Morphology; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Discourse; Dialog; Corpora; Dictionaries; Ontologies; Language resources for minority languages; Statistical and Machine Learning approaches; Finite-State Technology; Language models; POS tagging; Parsing; Semantic role labeling; Word-
sense disambiguation; Anaphora and co-reference resolution; Natural language generation; Speech <span style="font-size: small;">processing; Dialog Systems; Machine Translation; Information</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Retrieval; Information Extraction; Named Entity Recognition; Text </font>summarization; Question Answering; Text mining; Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis; NLP for medical applications; NLP for educational applications; Text accessibility; Plagiarism detection; Author <span style="font-size: small;">identification; Spam filtering.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Important Dates</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">May 17, 2013: Full paper/short paper submission due</font></div><div><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">July 8, 2013: Full paper/short paper acceptance notification</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">August 9, 2013: Camera ready due</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">October 15-17, 2013: Main conference</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Program Committee Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Jong Park, KAIST, Korea</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Call for
Demonstrations</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The IJCNLP 2013 Demonstration Committee invites proposals for the </font>Demonstrations Program. We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. We also welcome demo proposals related to submission to the main conference. Commercial sales and marketing activities are inappropriate for the <span style="font-size: small;">Program.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">AREAS OF INTEREST</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Areas of interest include all topics related to
theoretical and </font>applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the <span style="font-size: small;">topics listed for the conference paper submission.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The systems may be of the following kinds:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* Natural Language Processing systems or system components</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* Application systems using language technology components</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* Software tools for computational linguistics research</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* Software for demonstration or evaluation</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* Development tools</font></div><div><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be </font>sent to the Demo Chairs. Please use the main IJCNLP paper formatting <span style="font-size: small;">guidelines. The entire proposal should not be more than four pages.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* An extended abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, </font>including title, authors, full contact information, references, and <span style="font-size: small;">acknowledgements.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying </font>narrative,
and either a Web address for accessing the demo or visual <span style="font-size: small;">aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">* A detailed description of the hardware, software and internet </font><span style="font-size: small;">service requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">SUBMISSIONS PROCEDURE</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Submission procedure will be announced later. The deadline for </font>proposals is May 24, 2013. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints. Accepted submissions will be allocated
maximum four pages <span style="font-size: small;">in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">May 24, 2013: Demo proposal submission due</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">July 8, 2013: Demo proposal acceptance notification</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">August 9, 2013: Demo paper camera ready due</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">October 15-17: Conference</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIRS</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Kentaro Torisawa (NICT,
Japan)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hang Li (Huawei Technologies, China)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Call for Tutorials</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IJCNLP 2013 seeks proposals for tutorials on all topics of </font>computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include areas such as speech processing, information retrieval, psycholinguistics and language issues in emerging domains such as social
media, bioinformatics, and processing of legal documents. Especially encouraged are tutorials that introduce recent advancements in cross-disciplinary areas such as network analysis, machine learning, <span style="font-size: small;">and grounding in language processing.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">SUBMISSION DETAILS</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Proposals for tutorials should contain:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its </font><span style="font-size: small;">relevance to the NLP community (not more than 2 pages).</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that
the </font>tutorial's core content can be covered in a three-hour slot (including a coffee break). In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are <span style="font-size: small;">available as well.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">3. A sample (and preferably all, if available) of the slides and </font><span style="font-size: small;">any other material that will be used for the tutorial.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">4. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses </font><span style="font-size: small;">of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">their research interests and areas of expertise.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">5. A list of previous venues and approximate
audience sizes, if</font>the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an <span style="font-size: small;">estimate of the audience size.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">6. A description of special requirements for technical equipment </font><span style="font-size: small;">(e.g., internet access).</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in a single PDF file </font>or a single plain ASCII text file no later than May 17, 2013 to <span style="font-size: small;">tcc@ijcnlp2013.org.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The subject line should be: "IJCNLP 2013: TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".</font></div><div><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">You will receive an email confirmation that your proposal has been </font>received. If you do not receive this confirmation 24 hours after <span style="font-size: small;">sending the proposal, please send email again to the above addresses.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by June 17, 2013, and must </font>then provide the brief descriptions and outlines of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by August 5, 2013. The descriptions and outlines should be in ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the
conference web site. Tutorial speakers must provide the final tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the course slides as well as a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial, by August 26, <span style="font-size: small;">2013.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: May 17, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Notification of acceptance: June 17, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tutorial descriptions due: August 5, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tutorial course material due: August 26, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tutorial
date: October 14, 2013</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">MORE INFORMATION</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Please send inquiries concerning IJCNLP-13 tutorials to Satoshi Sekine </font><span style="font-size: small;">(tcc@ijcnlp2013.org).</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Call for Workshop Proposals</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">****************************************************************</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IJCNLP 2013 solicits proposals on any topic of interest to the natural </font><span style="font-size: small;">language processing communities.</span></div><div><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Submission Information</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Proposals for workshops should be no more than four pages on A4 sized </font>paper in length, and should be in text or PDF format. It should <span style="font-size: small;">contain the following information:</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">1. A title and brief (two-page max) description of the workshop </font><span style="font-size: small;">topic and content.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2. The desired workshop length (half day, full day or two days), </font>the preference (pre- or post-conference) and an estimate of the number <span style="font-size: small;">of attendees.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2">3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses </font>of the organizers with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.</div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">4. A list of potential members of the program committee with an </font><span style="font-size: small;">indication of which members have already agreed.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Soft versions of the Workshop proceedings will be published in a USB </font>flash drive and
may also be made available in the ACL archive (to be finalized). Although AFNLP holds the copyrights of the published papers, workshop organizers are encouraged to go for special issues of reputed journals with extended versions. Please submit workshop proposals to the workshop co-chairs (wcc at ijcnlp2013 dot org) by <span style="font-size: small;">March 8, 2013.</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Important Dates</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">March 8, 2013: Workshop proposal due</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">March 22, 2013: Notification of acceptance</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Timelines for IJCNLP 2013 Workshops</font></div><div><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">April 5, 2013: Proposed workshop 1st CFP</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">May 10, 2013: Proposed workshop 2nd CFP</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">June 7, 2013: Proposed paper submission due date</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">July 29, 2013: Proposed notification of acceptance</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Aug 23, 2013: Camera-ready deadline</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Oct 14, 2013: Pre-Conference Workshops</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Oct 18-19, 2013: Post-Conference Workshops</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Workshop Co-Chairs</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Naoaki Okazaki (Tohoku University, Japan)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">----------------------</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Sanja Stajner</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in3168/index.html<br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">PhD candidate at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP)</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>