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<div>11-13 September, 2014</div><div>DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan</div><div><a href="http://cs.dsu.edu.pk/clt14/" target="_blank">http://cs.dsu.edu.pk/clt14/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Call for Papers</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Conference on Language and Technology (CLT) is a biennial conference series organized by Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP; <span><a href="http://www.snlp.org.pk/" target="_blank">www.snlp.org.pk</a>), Pakistan, aiming to bring together students, researchers and practitioners to exchange research and development in the fields of linguistics and processing of speech, script and language.</span></div>
<div> </div><div>The Conference on Language and Technology series is an effort to promote the area of research, educate the masses and the decision making authorities to realize the importance of Language and Technology in this modern age of computers. Following are the venues of previous four conferences.</div>
<div><br></div><div>• CLT12, Centre of Language Engineering (CLE), KICS, UET, Lahore</div><div>• CLT10, National Language Authority (NLA), Islamabad</div>
<div>• CLT09, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore</div><div>• CLT07, Peshawar University, Bara Gali Campus</div><div><br>
</div><div>The 5th CLT will held at DHA Suffa University, a new fast growing university that focuses on the application of science and technology in every day life. Its campus is located in the Defence Housing Society, a peaceful and secure area of Karachi.</div>
<div> </div><div>The program of CLT14 will consist of <b>paper presentation, tutorials, software demos and a shared task</b> about transliteration. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing completed or on-going research or development in the following and related areas.</div>
<div> </div></div><div>Writing Systems/Orthography, Phonetics, Phonology<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Syntax, Semantics, Discourse Analysis<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Corpus Linguistics, Linguistic Resources, Localization, POS Tagging, Morphology, Morphological Analysis, Stemming, Chunking, Word Sense Disambiguation, Grammar Modeling and Parsing, Text Summarization, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Machine Translation, Optical Character Recognition, Computer Assisted Language Learning</div>
<div><div><div> </div><div>The calls and submission details for papers, tutorials, demos and shared task are given on the conference website.<br><br></div>
<div>Selected papers will be published in <b><i>Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied
Sciences</i></b>, an HEC recognized X-category journal.<br></div><div><b><small><br></small>Important Dates:</b></div><div> </div><div>Submission Deadline: Sunday, 4th May, 2014 </div>
<div>Notification Date: Thursday, 12th June, 2014 </div><div>Camera Ready Submission Deadline: Sunday 29th June, 2014</div><div>Conference Date: Thursday-Saturday, 11-13th September, 2014</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Organizing Committee:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Conference Chair: Athar Mahboob, Dean, DHA Suffa University, Karachi </div>
<div>Conference Co-Chair: Sarmad Hussain, UET, Lahore & chairperson, SNLP</div><div>Technical Cmt. Chair: Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz, Germany</div>
<div>Publication Cmt. Chair: Nadir Durrani, University of Edinburgh, UK</div><div>Programme Cmt. Chair: Tafseer Ahmed, DHA Suffa University, Karachi</div><div>
<br></div><div><b>Technical Committee:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Tafseer Ahmed, DHA Suffa University, Karachi</div>
<div>Qurat-ul-Ain Akram, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore </div><div>Shyam Agrawal, KIIT group of colleges, India</div><div>Haroon Babri, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore<br>
Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Nepal</div>
<div>Pushpak Bhatacharyya, IIT Bombay, India</div><div>Tina Bögel, Universität Konstanz, Germany</div><div>Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz, Germany (Chair)</div>
<div>Nadir Durrani, University of Edinburgh, UK</div><div>Tania Habib, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore</div><div>Annette Hautli, Universität Konstanz, Germany</div>
<div>Tracy Holloway King, eBay, USA</div><div>Samar Husain, Universität Potsdam, Germany</div><div>Afaq Husain, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
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<div>Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore</div><div>Saad Irtza, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore</div><div>
M. Abid Khan, University of Peshawar, Peshawar</div><div>Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div>Tahira Naseem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA</div>
<div>Ghulam Raza, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad</div><div>Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div>
Hassan Sajjad, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar</div>
<div>Faisal Shafiat, University of Western Australia, Australia</div><div>Dipti Sharma, IIT Hyderabad, India</div><div>Imran Siddiqi, Bahria University, Islamabad</div>
<div>Sebastian Sulger, Universität Konstanz, Germany</div><div>Ruvan Weerasinghe, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka</div><div>Khaver Zia, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Contact:</b> <span><a href="mailto:clt14@dsu.edu.pk" target="_blank">clt14@dsu.edu.pk</a></span>
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