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Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM<br>Subject: ICON-2014: 11th Intl Conf on Natural Language Processing -- First Call for Papers<br>To: <br><br><br> ICON-2014: ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING<br>
Goa University, Goa, India<br>
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December 18-21, 2014<br>
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Organized by<br>
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NLP Association, India<br>
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad<br>
Goa University, Goa<br>
Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, CIIL, Mysore<br>
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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The Eleventh International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2014) will be held at Goa University, Goa, India during December 18-21, 2014. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 19-20 2014. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials/workshops on December 18, 2014 and post conference tutorials/workshops on December 21, 2014.<br>
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1. TOPICS:<br>
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Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on Indian languages, issues, and applications relevant to India. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
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Morphology Parsing<br>
Phonology Word Sense Disambiguation<br>
Syntax Machine Translation<br>
Semantics Information Retrieval<br>
Discourse Text Summarization<br>
Pragmatics Question Answering<br>
Statistical Methods Dialog Systems<br>
Knowledge-based Methods Performance Evaluation<br>
Annotated Corpora Speech Corpora<br>
Lexical Resources Speech Recognition<br>
Ontology Speech Synthesis<br>
POS Tagging<br>
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The authors have to submit papers under any of the areas mentioned above and must mark the topic of their paper at the time of submission.<br>
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1.1 The conference will also accept papers for the following special tracks:<br>
- Natural Language Software Engineering<br>
- Linguistic Engineering<br>
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1.2 Position Papers<br>
A paper which expresses an opinion or point of view affecting<br>
the field.<br>
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2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:<br>
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Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted on the online portal at <a href="http://www.iiit.ac.in/icon2014" target="_blank">www.iiit.ac.in/icon2014</a>. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200 words. Please see the style file at <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/" target="_blank">www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-<u></u>ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/</a><br>
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BLIND REVIEW:<br>
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Papers in electronic form in the PDF format, anonymous for blind review, should be submitted. Kindly ensure that authors' names and affiliations are given only on a separate cover sheet. If your paper contains text of languages other than English, please attach relevant font files along with your submission.<br>
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3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS:<br>
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Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.<br>
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Workshops on Linguistic aspects of South Asian Languages are also welcome.<br>
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Send tutorial/Workshop proposals to the ICON-2014 Secretariat. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2014 Secretariat.<br>
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4. NLP TOOLS CONTEST ON STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION IN INDIAN LANGUAGES<br>
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Machine translation (MT) is the process of encoding the syntactic and semantic information of a source language text into a target language. In past two decades, MT has shown very promising results particularly using Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) especially for English and other European Languages. However, its effectiveness in translating sentences within Indian Languages (IL) and between English and Indian languages needs to be explored further.<br>
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The NLP tool contest in ICON 2014 aims to collectively explore the effectiveness of SMT while translating within ILs and between English and ILs.<br>
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CONTEST:<br>
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In the contest, training data will be provided to the contestants. It will consist of parallel corpus for different ILs and English. The contestants will have to train their systems on the data. A development corpus will also be provided to refine and improve their system. The final contest will be held on November, 2014 with the test data. A workshop will be held as a part of ICON to allow the short listed candidates to present their techniques and results. The detail of the language pair will be announced shortly. We will test translation in both directions for all language pairs.<br>
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The detail of the evaluation procedure and the uses policy of additional resources/tools will be announced shortly.<br>
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The contest will have three prizes:<br>
FIRST PRIZE: Rs.10,000/-<br>
SECOND PRIZE: Rs.7,500/-<br>
THIRD PRIZE: Rs.5,000/-<br>
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5. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES<br>
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ICON-2014 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:<br>
Track I : NLP (All areas)<br>
Track II : Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)<br>
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Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out. The prizes are::<br>
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FIRST PRIZE: Rs.10,000/-<br>
SECOND PRIZE: Rs.7,500/-<br>
THIRD PRIZE: Rs.5,000/-<br>
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The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact Student Paper Competition Chair on <a href="mailto:icon2014@iiit.ac.in" target="_blank">icon2014@iiit.ac.in</a>.<br>
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6. IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
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Paper submission deadline Aug 10, 2014<br>
Paper acceptance notification Oct 15, 2014<br>
Camera ready copy submission Oct 31, 2014<br>
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Tutorial/Workshop proposals Aug 20, 2014<br>
Tutorial/Workshop acceptance<br>
notification Aug 31, 2014<br>
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NLP Tools Contest registration<br>
deadline Aug 7, 2014<br>
Student Paper Competition<br>
submission deadline Aug 15, 2014<br>
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7. COMMITTEES:<br>
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Advisory Committee Chair<br>
Prof Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA<br>
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Conference General Chair<br>
Rajeev Sangal, IIT BHU, India<br>
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Programme Committee<br>
Jyoti Pawar, Goa University, India (Chair)<br>
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad, India (Co-Chair)<br>
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Tools Contest Chair<br>
Sandipan Dandapat, IIT Guwahati, India<br>
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Student Paper Competition Chair<br>
Vishal Goyal, Punjabi University, India<br>
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Organizing Chair<br>
Ramdas N. Karmali, Goa University, India<br>
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8. CONTACT INFORMATION<br>
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ICON-2014 Secretariat<br>
Language Technologies Research Centre<br>
International Institute of Information Technology<br>
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, India<br>
Ph: +91-40-6653 1333, 6653 1144 Fax: +91-400-6653 1413<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:icon2014@iiit.ac.in" target="_blank">icon2014@iiit.ac.in</a><br>
URL: <a href="http://www.iiit.ac.in/icon2014" target="_blank">www.iiit.ac.in/icon2014</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><b style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">Regards,</b></div><div>Vishal Goyal,<br>Ph.D., M.Tech., MCA, M.C.S.D.<br>Assistant Professor(Stage III) and Placement Coordinator,<br>Department of Computer Science,<br>
Punjabi University Patiala-147002<br>[<b>Online Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation Tool -</b> <a href="http://h2p.learnpunjabi.org" target="_blank">http://h2p.learnpunjabi.org</a> ]</div><div><b>[Research Cell: An International Journal of Engineering Sciences, <a href="http://ijoes.vidyapublications.com" target="_blank">http://ijoes.vidyapublications.com</a>]</b></div>
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