23.2117, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Pakistan

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Subject: 23.2117, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Pakistan

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Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 11:12:01
From: Sarmad Hussain [sarmad.hussain at kics.edu.pk]
Subject: Conference on Language and Technology

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Full Title: Conference on Language and Technology 
Short Title: CLT12 

Date: 08-Nov-2012 - 10-Nov-2012
Location: Lahore, Pakistan 
Contact Person: Sarmad Hussain
Meeting Email: sarmad.hussain at kics.edu.pk
Web Site: http://www.cle.org.pk/clt12 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-Jul-2012 

Meeting Description:

Conference on Language and Technology (CLT) is a biennial conference series organized by Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP; http://www.snlp.org.pk), 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. The first conference of this series, CLT07 was organized by Peshawar University, followed by CLT09 hosted by NUCES, Lahore. The third conference, CLT10, was organized by the National Language Authority (NLA), Islamabad.

Venue:

Center for Language Engineering
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology
G.T. Road, Lahore
Pakistan 

Call for Papers:

The program of CLT12 will consist of invited talks, workshops, tutorials, paper presentations and panel discussions. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing completed or on-going research or development in the following related areas.

Writing Systems/Orthography
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse Analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Linguistic Resources
Localization
POS Tagging
Stemming
Morphological Analysis
Chunking
Word Sense Disambiguation
Grammar Modeling and Parsing
Text Summarization
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Machine Translation
Optical Character Recognition
Computer Assisted Language Learning

Submission Procedure:

Full papers and workshop proposals are to be submitted electronically through the online submission system. The papers will go through a double-blind review process. Details of paper format and online submission process are available at:

http://www.cle.org.pk/clt12

Important Dates:

Paper submission by: 2 July 2012
Workshop proposal by: 2 July 2012
Demo proposal by: 2 July 2012
Notification of acceptance: 6 August 2012
Camera ready version by: 27 August 2012 
Conference: 8-10 November 2012

Technical Committee:

Dr. Abid Khan, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (co-chair)
Dr. Afaq Husain, Riphah University, Pakistan
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, NECTEC, Thailand
Dr. Douglas Clarke, Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Elena Bashir, University of Chicago, USA
Dr. Ghulam Raza, PIEAS, Pakistan
Dr. Imran Siddiqi, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Khaver Zia, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan
Dr. Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Dr. Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany (co-chair) 
Dr. Muhammad Afzal, KICSIT, Pakistan 
Dr. Pushpak Bhatacharyya, IIT Bombay, India 
Dr. Rachel Roxas, De La Salle University, Philippines 
Dr. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India 
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, KICS-UET, Pakistan
Dr. Tafseer Ahmed, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC, Thailand
Dr. Yogendra Yadava, Tribhuvan Univ., Kathmandu, Nepal

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Sarmad Hussain, KICS-UET, Pakistan (General chair)
Dr. Abid Khan, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (co-chair)
Dr. Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany (co-chair)
Dr. Tafseer Ahmed, University of Konstanz, Germany

For Further Details:

Dr. Sarmad Hussain
Professor and Head
Center for Language Engineering (http://www.cle.org.pk)
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (http://www.kics.edu.pk)
University of Engineering and Technology (http://www.uet.edu.pk)
G.T. Road, Lahore
Pakistan

Email: sarmad.hussain at kics.edu.pk
URL: http://www.cle.org.pk/clt12

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