<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px;">(Apologies for cross-posting. </font><b style="font-size: 13px; 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>)</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Call for Papers</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">The
6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013) October 14-18, 2013 Nagoya, Japan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Website: http://www.ijcnlp2013.org</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, will be held in Nagoya, Japan during the period October 14-18, 2013. The conference will cover a broad range of technical areas related to the computational treatment of natural language. IJCNLP 2013 will feature regular papers, short papers, poster papers, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Topics</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">IJCNLP
2013 invites submissions of papers reporting original and unpublished research on all aspects of language processing and computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following: Phonology; Morphology; Syntax;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 coreference resolution; Natural language generation; Speech processing; Dialog systems; Machine translation; Information retrieval; Information extraction; Named Entity Recognition; Text summarization; Question answering; Text mining; Opinion mining and sentiment analysis; NLP for medical applications; NLP for educational applications; Text accessibility; Plagiarism detection; Author identification; Spam filtering.</div><div
style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Important Dates</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">May 17, 2013 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time): Regular paper/short paper/poster paper submission due</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">May 24, 2013 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time): Demo paper submission due</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">July 8, 2013: Regular paper/short paper/poster paper/demo paper notification of acceptance due</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">August 9, 2013: Camera-ready versions due </div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Main conference period: October 15-17, 2013</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Submissions</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">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 at least three reviewers.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">There will be three categories of papers:</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">a. Regular papers: their length will be up to 8 pages plus 1 additional page for references or appendices if needed/applicable; in the conference program these papers will have a slot of 25 minutes allocated (20 min presentation +</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">5 minutes questions and answers)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">b. Short papers: their
length will be up to 6 pages plus 1 additional page for references or appendices if needed/applicable; in the program these papers will have a slot of 20 minutes (15 min presentation + 5 minutes questions and answers)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">c. Poster papers: their length will be up to 4 pages plus 1 additional page for references or appendices if needed/applicable; in the program these will be presented at poster sessions.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">All accepted papers will have equal status in the proceedings.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Authors will decide whether their papers are regular, short or posters depending on their length. Authors will also decide to which which area/track they are submitting (the START system will
be configured to allow selection of areas).</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Paper submissions should follow the two-column format of IJCNLP, conforming to the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style available on the conference website and conforming to the instructions to authors found there. Submissions must be electronic in PDF through the START conference system at:</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp2013/main/</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors'</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">names and affiliations. Furthermore, 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,</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Multiple-submission policy</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. If IJCNLP 2013 accepts a paper, authors must notify the program chairs by August 5, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. IJCNLP 2013 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Organizing Committee</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">General Chair</div><div
style="background-color: transparent;">Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Program Committee Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Jong Park, KAIST, Korea</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Local Organizing Committee Chair</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Hitoshi Isahara, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Workshop Committee Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Naoaki Okazaki, Tohoku University, Japan Scott Wen-tau Yih, Microsoft Research, USA</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Tutorial
Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Vincent Ng, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Demo Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Hang Li, Huawei Technologies Co., China</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Sponsorship Committee Chair</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Hiromi Nakaiwa, NTT, Japan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Publication Committee Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan</div><div style="background-color:
transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Finance Committee Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Masayuki Okabe, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Publicity Committee Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">----------</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Call for Demonstrations</div><div style="background-color:
transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">The 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013) October 14-18, 2013 Nagoya, Japan</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Website: http://www.ijcnlp2013.org</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">The IJCNLP 2013 Demonstration Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program. We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. We also welcome demo proposals related to submissions to the main conference. Commercial sales and marketing activities however are inappropriate for the Program.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">1. Areas of Interest</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Areas of interest
include all topics related to theoretical and applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics listed for in the conference call for papers submission.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">The systems may be of the following kinds</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- Natural Language Processing systems or system components</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- Application systems using language technology components</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- Software tools for computational linguistics research</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- Software for demonstration or evaluation</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- Development and annotation tools</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">2. Submission Format</div><div
style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Demo proposals consist of the following parts.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- An extended abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, including title, authors, full contact information, references, and acknowledgements.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a Web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">- A detailed description of the hardware, software and internet service requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. See Demo Equipment for more details.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Please use the IJCNLP submission format</div><div
style="background-color: transparent;">(http://lang.cs.tut.ac.jp/ijcnlp2013/submission_format/) for Microsoft Word and LaTeX for preparing your proposal. The entire proposal should not be more than four pages.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">3. Submissions Procedure</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">The deadline for proposals is May 24, 2013 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time). Submission will be electronic in PDF format through the START conference system at:</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp2013/demos</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">(Please do not send the submission to Demo Co-Chairs by email.)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Each
submission 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 in the Companion Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">4. Demo Equipment</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Each demo will be provided with an internet connection, two power sockets (AC 100V, Max 500W for each socket). See http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2225.html for more information about the electricity in Japan.), a table and a poster board (90cm x 180cm). PCs and other devices such as LCD panels must be prepared and brought to the venue by demonstrators. Note that projectors may not be feasible because of limitation of space and
lighting.</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">5. Important Dates</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">May 24, 2013 (11:59pm Pacific Standard Time): Demo proposal submission due July 8, 2013: Demo proposal acceptance notification August 9, 2013: Demo paper camera-ready version due October 15-17: Conference</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">6. Demonstrations Chairs</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Kentaro Torisawa (NICT, Japan)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">Hang Li (Huawei Technologies, Hong Kong) Any inquiry should be emailed to dcc@ijcnlp2013.org. </div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size:
10pt;">--------------------------------------------</div></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Sanja Stajner</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><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-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">PhD candidate at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP)</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><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 style="background-color: transparent;"><br></div></font></div></div></div></body></html>