[Corpora-List] [IJCNLP-04] Call for Proposals for Thematic Sessions

[Jing-Shin Chang]

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[IJCNLP-04] Call for Proposals for Thematic Sessions [IJCNLP-04]
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Important Date: Proposal due is approaching ...

	Proposal DUE: ** September 20, 2003. **

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The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
(IJCNLP-04)

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The 1st IJCNLP is organized by the Asia Federation of Natural Language
Processing (AFNLP: http://www.afnlp.org/) to celebrate the inauguration
of the Federation on the beautiful Hainan Island
(http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/), China, on March 22-24,
2004.

Local Host: Chinese Information Processing Society of China

Sponsoring Organizations:
	Chinese Information Processing Society of China (TBC)
	Association for Natural Language Processing (TBC)
	Association for Computational Linguistics (TBC) (to be added)
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[Call for Proposals for Thematic Sessions]

A Thematic Session provides a good occasion to focus peoples with the
same special interest, so that they can meet each other at a specific
time-space to discuss and exchange ideas. Due to the successful history
of Thematic Session in ACL, the IJCNLP-04 would like to offer the
opportunity again to let you organize your own Thematic Session within
the main conference. You are encouraged to submit the proposal for
Thematic Session, and to take this chance to promote a special
area/topic/approach and to find out who are interested in that.

The Thematic Session Proposals will be evaluated by the IJCNLP-04
program chairs, and those accepted ones will be announced in the Call
for Papers announcement. Submitting papers to Thematic Sessions is the
same as that for ordinary sessions of the main conference (In the
submission page, we will have a check-box to let the author select the
general session or a particular thematic session). The organizer of each
Thematic Session needs to organize his/her own sub-committee for
reviewing their assigned papers and to make recommendation. However, the
IJCNLP-04 program committee reserves the right to make the final
adjustment to keep the same quality standard across various general
sessions and thematic sessions. How many time-slots (usually 3 to 4
papers per slot) would be assigned to a specific Thematic Session (or if
it will be requested to merge with another session) will depend on the
final number of submissions accepted.

Please submit your proposals for Thematic Session to

   Dr. Keh-Yih Su (kysu at bdc.com.tw)

before September 20, 2003.

The proposal should indicate what kind of group would be interested in
the proposed theme, and it should also predict the number of possible
submissions. The list of your sub-committee-members that you would like
to invite should also be provided with their affiliations. The
notification of acceptance of Thematic Sessions is October 1, and you
are requested to give a short description for Call-for-Paper on your
Thematic Sessions before October 15. The paper submission deadline will
be November 15 (which is the same as the general session).


**The proceedings of IJCNLP-04 will be archived in both the ACL
anthology site and the archive site of the AFNLP, and those remaining
paper copies of IJCNLP-04 proceedings will be sold through ACL office
(as Coling case). Therefore, your papers will be widely exposed to the
whole world. Please take this chance.

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(6) Organization of IJCNLP-04

Honorary Chair
    Nagao, Makoto (Kyoto University, Kyoto)

Conference Co-chairs
    Ni, Guangnan (Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing)
    Tsou, Benjamin K. (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Program Committee Co-chairs
    Su, Keh-Yih (Behavior Design Corporation, Taipei)
    Tsujii, Jun-ichi (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)

Chair for Satellite Events
    Choi, Key-Sun (KAIST, Daejeon)

Chair for Interactive Posters and Demos
    Zhou, Ming (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)

Local Organizing Committee Co-chairs
    Cao, Youqi (Chinese Information Processing Society of China,
Beijing)
    (VC) Sun, Maosong (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
           (External Liaison Person)

Publicity Chair
   Isahara, Hitoshi (CRL, Kyoto)

Publication Chair
   Jong Hyeok LEE (Postech, Pohang)
   (VC) Kurohashi, Sadao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
        Kwong, Olivia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Financial Chair
   Wong, Kam Fai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
   (VC)Lai, Tom (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)


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