[Corpora-List] CFP: Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR-04)

[M M Hasan]

First Call for Paper: (apologies for multiple posting)

The 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR-04)
http://203.144.225.125/tcl/alr-04/

The 4th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR-04) is a workshop affiliated to IJC-NLP-04, the 1st International Joint 
Conference on Natural Language Processing organized by Asia Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)

Main Conference: The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04) 
March 22-24, 2004
Main Conference Web site: http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/ 


Post Conference Workshop: Asian Language Resources (ALR-04), March 25, 2004
Venue: Sanya City, Hainan Island, CHINA 

Purpose and Topics:
Language resources play an important role as corpus-based, stochastic, and learning approaches are introduced to natural language processing research. Many research units put great efforts on developing corpora for their particular purpose, and some even focus on compiling various
kinds of language resources.

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. But 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 roadmap
- 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
* Metadata 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: December 12, 2003
Notification of acceptance: January 10, 2004
Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
Workshop date: March 25, 2004 (Thursday)


Paper Submission: 
Submission Format is identical to the main conference, IJC-NLP-04.
Please refer to 
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html
for Submission formats and templates.

Submissions should follow a two-column format and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of IJC-NLP LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for IJC-NLP.

Several files are supplied below that describe the formatting for ijc-NLP-04 submissions. Note that full paper submissions are restricted to 8 pages.

PDF file illustrating the format: ijc-nlp04.pdf 
Postscript file illustrating the format: ijc-nlp04.ps  
Sample latex file:  ijc-nlp04.tex 
Style file for latex: ijc-nlp04.sty 
Bibliography formatting file for latex: ijc-nlp04.bst 
MSWord dot file: ijc-nlp04.dot 

A description of the format is available in ijc-nlp04.ps in case you are unable to use these style files directly.

Please E-mail your paper to mmhasan at crl-asia.org before the submission deadline.


Workshop Committee:
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (chair)
Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand

Chu-Ren Huang (co-chair)
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Takenobu Tokunaga (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