[Corpora-List] CfP: CLIA-2008 - Cross-lingual Information Access (extended deadline: 30.09.2007)

[Ralf Steinberger]

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

 

                         CLIA-2008

 

              Second International Workshop on

 

              Cross Lingual Information Access, 

  Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies.

 

       IJCNLP-2008, January 11, 2008, Hyderabad, India

 

             http://search.iiit.ac.in/CLIA2008/

 

 

FOCUS AND GOALS

 

This workshop aims to bring together various trends in cross and

multi-lingual information retrieval and access. It will provide a

comprehensive survey of the state of the art technology and systems, 

and present emerging technologies in this domain. We will bring 

together ideas from academia, government, and industry to cover a 

broad spectrum of applications and views. The workshop will consist 

of a set of invited talks and presentations of technical papers which 

will be selected after peer review from the submissions received.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

We solicit submissions describing research on all aspects of 

"Cross Lingual Information Access and Retrieval". Topics of 

interest include but are not limited to: 

 

* Cross-language cross media search (speech, video, audio) 

* Uses of (statistical) MT in multilingual information access 

* Search based on language independent forms 

* Less-commonly taught languages 

* Cross-language text categorization 

* Multilingual Cross lingual named entity recognition 

* Multilingual digital libraries 

* Scalability issues in multilingual information access/system evaluation 

* Cross Lingual/ Multilingual question answering 

* Multi-lingual Summarization 

* Practical systems on various domains 

* Acquisition of parallel and comparable corpora in multiple languages

* Morphology and Shallow Parsing for CLIR 

* Query Translation, Query Expansion, Multiword handling and

  Lightweight WSD for CLIR 

* Other CLIR research issues, user studies / interactive CLIA

 

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad, India (Primary Contact) vv [at] iiit.ac.in

Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India 

Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur, India 

A Kumaran Microsoft Research, India 

Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Extended Paper Submission Deadline: Sept 30, 2007

Notification of Paper Acceptance: Oct 26, 2007

Camera Ready Submission Deadline: Nov 16, 2007

Workshop: January 11 2008.

 

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Ralf Steinberger

European Commission - Joint Research Centre

 <http://langtech.jrc.it/> http://langtech.jrc.it/

 

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