[Corpora-List] IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.3

[Eiko Yamamoto]

*********** IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.3 (6th of Nov. 2003)***************

The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
        organized by the Asia Federation of NLP associations (AFNLP)

  http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04
  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/symposium: March 25-26, 2004

[Venue]
      Resort Golden Palm http://www.resortgp.com.cn/
      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]

Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
  Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei	
Korea NLP society, Seoul
Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CLISC), Beijing
(more to be added)

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This issue contains

[1] Publication Policy
[2] Donation
[3] Merger of two thematic sessions
[4] The electronic submission site is now UP
[5] Workshops and Satellite Symposium

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[1] Publication Policy

We are very glad to announce that:

  1.  Springer Verlag has agreed to publish a selection of IJCNLP-2004
  papers as a book in its wellknown LNAI series. The editorial committee
  will make all efforts to include every worthwhile paper in this
  publication, which will have benefited from revision following
  discussions and comments at the conference.

  2. The proceedings of IJCNLP-2004 will be archived in the ACL anthology
  site for future reference.

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[2] LATEST DONATION TO AFNLP FOR ITS INAUGURAL CONFERENCE IN HAINAN

We are very grateful to our colleagues from the Association for
Computational Linguistics and Chinese Langauge Processing in Taipei
for joining the ranks of others in their generous support of the
inaugaural conference of AFNLP in Hainan next march in spirit and in
monetary terms.

The contributions we will receive will go a long way towards helping
promoting better cross-fertilization among NLP efforts in asia beyond
the conference, especially with respect to colleagues working on
languages not yet on centre stage.  Thus far we have support pledged
from the following organizations:

Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
  Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei	
Korea NLP society, Seoul
Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CLISC), Beijing

We would very much welcome similar reponse from other like minded
organizations, which are in a position to add to the material support
as well.

Professors Kam-Fai Wong and Tom Lai are the chair and vice chair of
the Finance committee for IJCNLP-04 and will be happy to follow up on
any specific queries.

We thank our colleagues in Taipei again and with all best wishes,

Benjamin Tsou
General Co-chair

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[3] Merger of two thematic sessions

Following two original Thematic Sessions have been merged into a new
one:

[Original TS-2] Natural Language Technology in the Text Processing
  User Interface (organized by Michael Kuehn and Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii)

[Original TS-3] Mobile Information Retrieval (organized by Mun-Kew
  Leong)

New Thematic Sessions after merge: 		

[TS-1] Natural Language Learning using Both Labeled and Unlabeled Data
  (organized by: Hang Li)

[New TS-2] Natural Language Technologies in Mobile Information
  Retrieval and Text Processing User Interfaces (organized by: Michael
  Kuehn, Mun-Kew Leong, and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii)

[New TS-3] Text mining in Biomedicine (organized by: Sophia Ananiadou
  and Jong C. Park)

The procedure for submitting papers to those Thematic Sessions would be
exactly the same as that for submitting papers to other general areas
(http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submitijc.html).

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[4] The electronic submission site is now UP

You can get information necessary for submission from
[Submission Information Web Site]:
  http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html

And the submission site is:
[Submission Web Site]:
  http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submitijc.html

The submission deadline for both the general areas and thematic
sessions are:
[Deadline of Submission] 12 p.m. (midnight, JST), November 15

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[5] Workshops and Satellite Symposium

We will have the following four workshops and one satellite symposium
on March 25 and/or 26, following the main conference. You find the
details of these events in our web site. Another one or two workshops
are now being planned and will be announced soon.

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[W1] Asian Language Resources

(Organiziers)
Chair:
Virach Sornlertlamvanich
(Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Bangkok)
Co-chairs:
Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo)

Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003

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[W2] Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering - Towards
  Systematizing and Automatic Evaluation

(Organizers)
Chin-Yew Lin (USC/ISI, Los Angeles)
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)

Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003

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[W3] Beyond shallow analyses - Formalisms and statistical modeling for
  deep analyses

(Organizers)
R. Kaplan (Parc, Palo Alto)
M. Johnson (Brown University, Rhode Island)
A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
D. McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago)
Y. Miyao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
S. Oepen (University of Oslo, Oslo and Stanford Univ., Palo Alto)
S. Riezler (Parc, Palo Alto)
J. Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
H. Uszkoreit (DFKI and Saarbrueken University, Saarbrueken)

Paper submission deadline: January 31, 2004

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[W4] Named Entity Recognition for Natural Language Processing
  Applications

(Organizer)
Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Paper submission deadline: 8 December 2003

***Satellite Symposium***
[SS1] Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome
  Language Barriers

(Organizers)
ISAHARA Hitoshi (Co-chair) - Communications Research Laboratory
NITTA Yoshihiko (Co-chair) - Nihon University
AKIBA Tomoyoshi - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
                  and Technology
INUI Kentaro - Nara Institute of Science and Technology
UTSURO Takehito - Kyoto University
FUKUMOTO Jun'ichi - Ritsumeikan University
NAKANO Mikio - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Submission of Extended Abstracts:  December 2, 2003

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