[Corpora-List] IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.6

[Eiko Yamamoto]

*********** IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.6 (25th of Feb. 2004)***************

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

Website:
    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)
    http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/

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[Date]
      Main Conference: March 22, 23 and 24, 2004
      Workshops/symposium: March 21,25 and 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 (CIPSC), Beijing
(more to be added)

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This issue contains

[1] Conference Registration
[2] Special Events
[3] Cancellation of Workshop on Summarization
[4] Visa Application
[5] Conference Program
[6] Airport Pickup Service
[7] Social Programs

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[1] Conference Registration

<< Register early to prevent the higher on-site fee on or before 10
   March 2004!! >>

The registration site for non-PRC participants is now open.
Participants can register for the main conference (with tutorials and
workshops) and/or the satellite symposium at
  http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04/registration.htm.
Accommodation can also be booked simultaneously.

PRC participants should register via the local organising committee
(please refer to http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/).

Enquiries on registration can be directed to
  ijcnlp04.enquiry at cityu.edu.hk.


[2] Special Events

We are planning to have several special events during the conference
(see following), which will be open to the conference participants.

Opening Address
  Prof. Makoto Nagao

Invited academic talks by
  Prof. Mark Johnson
    Probabilistic Models for Rich Linguistic Information
  Prof. Ching-Chun Hsieh
    The Impact of Information Technology on Communication and Linguistics
  Prof. Hans Uszkoreit
    Language Technology for E-Memory Applications

Panel discussions on
  Emerging Asian Language Processing Efforts
  Multilingual NLP for Public Information Services
                                  (2008 Digital Olympics)


[3] Cancellation of Workshop on Summarization

The Workshop on "Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering
-Towards Systematizing and Automatic Evaluation" (W2) has to be
cancelled unfortunately, due to technical and operational reasons.
Participants who have registered for the workshop are welcome to
transfer the registration to another workshop instead.  Please contact
ijcnlp04.enquiry at cityu.edu.hk to indicate your choice by 29 February
2004.


[4] Visa Application

Conference participants are reminded to make sure that they obtain
the necessary visa to enter China in good time.  Visa information is
available at http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04/travel.htm.  Those
who require a letter from China for the application of visa, please
kindly send an email to yangke at admin.iscas.ac.cn of the local
organising committee, giving them your name, affiliation, profession,
nationality, passport number, fax number, and corresponding
address. They will prepare the necessary document
for you.


[5] Conference Program

The preliminary conference program is posted at
  http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04/prelimprogram.htm.
A pdf version is also available for download.  Each oral paper will
have a 25-minute slot (about 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes
for Q&A).  LCD projectors and PCs will be available for presentation.
Each poster paper will have a board (dimensions TBC) to display the
presentation materials.


[6] Airport Pickup Service

Transportation can be arranged between the airport and the conference
hotel. A return trip (airport >> hotel >> airport) costs RMB 60.  (For
information, a normal one-way trip by taxi costs about RMB 120.)
Registered participants are asked to send their flight details to
yangke at admin.iscas.ac.cn of the local organising committee as soon as
possible, should they require the service.


[7] Social Programs

A welcome reception will be held at the conference hotel (Resort
Golden Palm) in the evening of 21 March 2004.  The conference banquet
will take place on 22 March 2004.  An optional half-day excursion is
included in the conference package in the afternoon of 23 March 2004.
Information on other tour options will be provided at the registration
desk.
Please check out the details and sign up at the registration desk when
you arrive at the conference site.

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