[Corpora-List] ALR-04 (WS of IJCNLP2004) : Submission extended

[Eiko Yamamoto]

The 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
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Extension of paper submission deadline:
     Paper submission deadline: January 3, 2004 (extended)
     Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2004 (extended)
     Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
     Workshop date: March 25, 2004 (Thursday)
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The 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
(http://www.crl-asia.org/tcl/alr-04)

Language resources play a very essential role when corpus-based,
stochastic, and learning approaches was introduced to natural language
processing research. Many research units put great efforts on
developing the corpus for their particular purpose, and some focus on
compiling various kinds of language resources. In European community,
it moves to the step of finding the standard of specification for
consolidating technological achievement and exchanging and sharing of
existing language resources. ENABLER / ELSNET Workshop -
"International Roadmap for Language Resources" in Paris, in
August 2003, is one of the attempt to prepare a map of the language
resources landscape and to launch the International Coordination
Committee for Written Language Resources and Evaluation, aimed at
coordinating actions to prepare and maintain the resources landscape
map and roadmap.

Asia, the land of language variation, are suffering from the shortage
of sharing the resource and cross language problem solving
experience. There are several reports referring to the success of
constructing and using corpora in many dimensions. However, there are
few efforts in establishing common formats or frameworks for handling
these languages. The re-organizing the existing resources and finding
for the guideline in corpus development become significant issue in
the current research.

The 4th workshop on Asian Language Resources will be held with the
following purposes:

- To investigate and discuss the problems related to the construction,
  dissemination and NLP research based on Asian Language Resources
- To establish the collaborative effort on Asian language resources
  construction, management, accessibility, distribution, and sharing
- To launch the Asian Language Resources road map
- To introduce the status of Asian language resources to researchers
  in other regions

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Text corpora
* Machine-readable dictionaries
* Lexicons
* Ontology
* Grammars
* Exchange and annotation schemata
* Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
* Exchange formats
* Best practices for creating and disseminating language resources
* Meta data for resource classification and discovery
* Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation
* Standards for language resources (lexicons, corpora, ontologies, etc.)
* Lexical standards and multi-linguality
* Standards for content management
* Standards and applications
* Standards and evaluation

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: January 3, 2004 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2004 (extended)
Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
Workshop date: March 25, 2004 (Thursday)


Paper submission: Electronic submissions only.

Please E-mail your paper to mmhasan at crl-asia.org

Submission Format: TBC - Same as IJCNLP-04


Workshop Committee:
Virach Somlertlamvanich (chair), Thai Computational Linguistics
Laboratory, Thailand
Chu-Ren Huang (co-chair), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tokunaga Takenobu (co-chair), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Swen Bing, Peking University, China
Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, Australia
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy
Thatsanee Charoenporn, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL,
Thailand
Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Maruf Hasan, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand
Hitoshi Isahara, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Japan
Shuichi Itahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Sadao Kurohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
Hammam Riza, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology,
BPPT, Indonesia
Dipti M Sharma, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Kiyoaki Shirai, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Jian Su, Institute for Inforcomm Research, Singapore
Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center,
NECTEC, Thailand
Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology,
Thailand
Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zaharin Yusoff, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Jun Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China

The workshop is an attaching event to the 1st International Joint
Conference of Natural Language Processing organized by the Asia
Federation of NLP associations (AFNLP)

     Website:
         http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/
         http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04 (mirror site in HK)
         http://www.colips.org/conference/ijcnlp04/ (mirror site in
Singapore)
         http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ijcnlp04 (mirror site at USC)

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[Date]
      Main Conference: March 22-24, 2004
      Workshops:          March 25, 2004

[Venue]
      Sanya, Hainan island, China
      ***Land's End - Hainan is so remote on the sea that ancient people,
         while believing that earth is square, really thought it is where
         the land ends***
      http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/

[Sponsoring Organizations]

Chinese Information Processing Society of China
Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan
Association for Computational Linguistics
Korea Natural Language Processing Society (SIG-KLC)