[Corpora-List] Australia: Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, at Coling-ACL 2006 --- CFP

[Timothy Baldwin]

Call for Papers

Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
COLING/ACL 2006 Workshop
July 22-23, 2006
http://www.sighan.org/swclp5/

Sydney, Australia


Background and Goals

Growing interest in Chinese language processing is leading to the
development of resources such as annotated corpora, word segmenters,
part-of-speech taggers, and parsers. As more resources have become
available recently, it is crucial to create a platform that allows
easy exchange of information and data and the comparison of different
approaches to various NLP tasks. The SIGHAN workshops provide a forum
where the latest research in these areas can be shared.

Past SIGHAN workshops included the organization of the First and
Second International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff, where many
word segmentation systems from academia and industry were
evaluated. The evaluations conducted have proven to be influential,
and the evaluation data set has become the benchmark for Chinese word
segmentation in the Chinese language processing community.

COLING/ACL 2006 in Sydney will provide an ideal opportunity to bring
together again influential as well as aspiring researchers from Hong
Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, and Taiwan and other interested
Chinese language processing researchers from around the world, to
deliberate and interact on a range of NLP issues.

The first day of the workshop (July 22) will consist of papers on all
aspects of Chinese language processing, including but not limited to:

word segmentation
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
lexical semantics
word sense disambiguation
lexicon acquisition
corpus development
discourse processing
generation
cross-lingual information retrieval
machine translation

The second half-day of the workshop (July 23) will present results
>>From a bakeoff. A SIGHAN business meeting will discuss lessons
learned
and future plans. This year's third SIGHAN bakeoff will be held during
the Spring of 2006. This year, in addition to the standard Chinese
word segmentation task, we also plan a new track on named entity
recognition and tagging from unsegmented Chinese text. Training and
testing resources will be provided in both traditional and simplified
character sets from a range of institutions including Chinese
Knowledge and Information Processing group of Academia Sinica, City
University of Hong Kong, Microsoft Research Asia, Peking University,
and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Colorado.


Submission Method

Papers should be written in English and may not exceed 8 pages
(including all illustrations, references and appendices, and using
11pt for the main text).  We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX
style files or MS Word document template provided by COLING/ACL 2006,
available at http://www.acl2006.org/program/style.  Since reviewing
will be blind, manuscripts should not include authors' names and
affiliations.  Papers should be submitted via START, for which more
detail will be available in due course.


Important Dates

Workshop paper submission deadline: April 12, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2006
Camera ready version deadline: May 31, 2006

Bakeoff Registration Opens: March 15, 2006
Full training data made available: April 17, 2006
Test data made available: May 15, 2006
Test results due from participants: May 17, 2006
Results reported privately to participants: May 19, 2006
Final reports due from participants: June 2, 2006


Organizers

Workshop Chair

Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore
(nght at comp.nus.edu.sg)


Workshop Co-Chair

Olivia Oi Yee Kwong, City University of Hong Kong
(rlolivia at cityu.edu.hk)


Bakeoff Coordinators

Gina-Anne Levow, University of Chicago
(levow at cs.uchicago.edu)

Olivia Oi Yee Kwong, City University of Hong Kong
(rlolivia at cityu.edu.hk)


Workshop Program Committee

Aitao Chen, Yahoo!
Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica
David Chiang, USC Information Sciences Institute
Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Pennsylvania
Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University
Daniel Jurafsky, Stanford University
Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, CUNY
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Chicago
Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research
Mu Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Qun Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoqiang Luo, IBM
Qing Ma, Ryukoku University
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado
Fuchun Peng, Yahoo!
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University
Haifeng Wang, Toshiba
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fei Xia, University of Washington at Seattle
Nianwen Xue, University of Pennsylvania
Jun Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tiejun Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology
Guodong Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia
Jingbo Zhu, Northeastern University