20.3522, Confs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics/Hong Kong

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Subject: 20.3522, Confs: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: 19-Oct-2009
From: Olivia Kwong < Olivia.Kwong at cityu.edu.hk >
Subject: 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
 

	
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:55:11
From: Olivia Kwong [Olivia.Kwong at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

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23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation 
Short Title: PACLIC 23 

Date: 03-Dec-2009 - 05-Dec-2009 
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact: Olivia Kwong 
Contact Email: paclic23 at cityu.edu.hk 
Meeting URL: http://paclic23.ctl.cityu.edu.hk 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

PACLIC 23 is organized by the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and the Language Information Sciences Research Centre of the City University of Hong Kong, under the auspices of the PACLIC Steering Committee.

The 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 23) will be held in the City University of Hong Kong on 3-5 December 2009. The PACLIC series of conferences emphasizes the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language, and provides a forum for researchers in different fields of language study in the Pacific-Asia region to meet, to inspire and to be inspired.  According to the Computer Science Conference Ranking Website, as in Feb 2009, PACLIC is ranked 50th out of 701 conferences in topic area II (AI and Machine Learning), roughly at top 7%. (http://www.cs-conference-ranking.or/conferencerankings/topicsii.html).

Call for Participation:

Registration now open at https://paclic23.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/reg/or.jsp 
Early-bird registrations available until 30 October 2009 

The conference will feature invited and plenary talks, regular paper presentations and a poster session.

Invited Talks:

Gesture Theory is Linguistics: On Modelling Multimodality as Prosody, Dafydd Gibbon (Universitat Bielefeld)

Automatic Lexical Classification - Balancing between Machine Learning and Linguistics, Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge)

Developing Speech Recognition Synthesis Techonologies to Support Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training for Chinese Learners of English,  Helen Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Plenary Talks:

A Step toward Composition Semantics: E-HowNet a Lexical Semantic Representation System Extended from HowNet, Keh-Jiann Chen (Academia Sinica)

Title TBA, Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)

Resultative Constructions as Causal Relations between Events, Ik-Hwan Lee (Sangmyung University)

Generating Chinese Couplets and Poetry with Statistical Methods, Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia)

Paper Presentations:

The list of accepted papers is available at https://paclic23.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/PACLIC23_program.html.

Registration:

Registration is now open at https://paclic23.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/reg/or.jsp
Early-bird registration through 30 October 2009 11:59PM (GMT+8)
Late registration through 25 November 2009 11:59PM (GMT+8)

We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong!

Conference Chair:

Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong

Conference Co-chair:

Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Program Committee:

Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong (Advisor)
Olivia Kwong, City University of Hong Kong (Chair)





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