[Corpora-List] CFP: CLIA2010 (the 4th workshop on cross lingual information access), an COLING 2010 workshop

[zhang min]

Apologies for cross-postings

=====================        Call for paper   =====================

            FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CROSS LINGUAL INFORMATION
ACCESS
            COLING 2010, Beijing 28th August, 2010 
 
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/UM/india/events/CLIA2010/page.htm

The fourth workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access aims to bring
together researchers from 
a variety of fields and practitioners from government and industry to
address the issue of information 
need of multi-lingual societies. This workshop will also highlight the
contributions of NLP and 
computational linguistic aspects to CLIA, in addition to the previously
better represented viewpoint 
from Information Retrieval.

IMPORTANT DATES
                . 30th May, 2010 Paper submission due
                . 30th June, 2010 Paper notification of acceptance
                . 10th July, 2010 Paper Camera-ready due
                . 28th August, 2010 CLIA 2010 Workshop

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cross-lingual information access (CLIA) is concerned with technologies and
applications that enable 
people to freely access information that is expressed in any language that
may differ from the query 
language. With the rapid development of globalization and digital online
information in Internet, a 
growing demand for CLIA has emerged. Ordinary netizens who are surfing the
Internet for special 
information and communicating in social networks, global companies which
provide multilingual 
services to their multinational customers, governments who aim to lower the
barriers to international 
commerce and collaboration and homeland security are in need of cross
lingual access. This has triggered 
vigorous research and development in CLIA. This workshop is the fourth in a
series of workshops and aims 
to address the need of cross-lingual information access. The previous three
workshops were held during 
IJCAI 2007 in Hyderabad, IJCNLP 2008 in Hyderabad, and NAACL 2009 in
Colorado. 

In this workshop, in addition to Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR),
the focus is on multi-lingual 
information extraction, information integration, summarization and other key
technologies that are useful 
for CLIA. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from a variety of
fields such as information 
retrieval, computational linguistics, machine translation, and digital
library, and practitioners from 
government and industry to address the issue of information need of
multi-lingual societies. This workshop 
also aims to highlight and emphasize the contributions of NLP and
computational linguistic aspects to CLIA, 
in addition to the previously better represented viewpoint from Information
Retrieval. We thus solicit 
submissions in the following and related topics:

MULTI-LINGUAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION
                . Acquisition of multi-lingual
parallel/comparable/non-comparable corpora
                . Multi-lingual document/sentence/word alignment 
                . Multi-lingual lexicon/term extraction
                . Multi-lingual new words / named entity detection and
translation 

MACHINE TRANSLATION IN CLIA
                . Interaction between cross-lingual information retrieval
and machine translation
                . Query translation and document translation
                . Developing statistical machine translation systems from
multi-lingual corpora
                . Domain adaptation in machine translation
                . Multi-lingual / Cross-lingual named entity recognition

NLP/CL/IR FOR CLIA
                . Multi-lingual summarization
                . Multi-lingual information extraction
                . Multi-lingual question answering
                . Multi-lingual text categorization and clustering
                . Multi-lingual opinion study and sentiment analysis 
                . Mono-lingual processing leveraging on multi-lingual
resources

GENERAL CLIA
                . Approaches to cross-lingual/multi-lingual information
access
                . Domain specific cross-lingual/multi-lingual information
access
                . Cross-lingual cross media search (speech, video, audio)
                . Machine Learning for multi-lingual information access
                . Scalability issues in cross-lingual/multi-lingual
information access
                . system evaluation
                . Web-scale cross-lingual search
                . User studies / interactive CLIA

PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions to CLIA 2010 should follow the COLING 2010 paper
submission policy, including paper format, 
blind review policy and title and author format convention. The workshop
papers are in two-column format with 
at least two (2) pages and up to eight (8) pages of content plus one extra
page for references. A detailed 
abstract with two (2) pages to address your on-going work is also welcome.
Submission must conform to the official 
COLING 2010 style guidelines. Submission is electronic using paper
submission software at 
https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/CLIA2010/. For details, please refer to
http://www.coling-2010.org

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT Kharagpur, India) 
Min Zhang (Institute for InfoComm Research)
Adam Lopez (The University of Edinburgh)
Raghavendra Udupa (Microsoft Research)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eneko Agirre		University of the Basque Country 
Ai Ti Aw                Institute for Infocomm Research 
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay    Jadavpur University 
Pushpak Bhattacharya	IIT Bombay 
Nicola Cancedda		Xerox Research Centre Europe 
Patrick Saint Dizier	IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier 
Nicola Ferro		University of Padua 
Guohong Fu			Heilongjiang University 
Cyril Goutte		National Research Council of Canada 
A Kumaran			Microsoft Research of India 
Gareth Jones		Dublin City University 
Joemon Jose			University of Glasgow 
Gina-Anne Levow		National Centre for Text Mining UK 
Haizhou Li			Institute for Infocomm Research 
Qun Liu                 ICT/CAS 
Ting Liu			Harbin Institute of Technology 
Paul McNamee		Johns Hopkins University 
Mandar Mitra		ISI Kolkata 
Doug Oard			University of Maryland, College Park 
Carol Peters		Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
and CLEF campaign 
Maarten de Rijke		University of Amsterdam 
Paolo Rosso			Technical University of Valencia 
Hendra Setiawan		University of Maryland 
L Sobha			AU-KBC, Chennai 
Rohini Srihari		University at Buffalo, SUNY 
Ralf Steinberger		European Commission - Joint Research Centre,
Italy 
Le Sun			Institute of Software, CAS 
Chew Lim Tan 		National University of Singapore 
Vasudeva Varma		IIIT Hyderabad 
Thuy Vu			Institute for Infocomm Research 
Haifeng Wang 		Baidu, China 
Deyi Xiong        	Institute for Infocomm Research 
Yao Meng			Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd., China 
Guodong Zhou		SooChow University 
Chengqing Zong		Institute of Automation, CAS


Institute for Infocomm Research disclaimer:  "This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you."

_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora