[Corpora-List] Call for participations of CIPS-SIGHAN2010 Bakeoffs

[Qun Liu]

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CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing will be hold
in Beijing, just after COLING2010. There are 4 backoff tasks as follows:

  Task1: Chinese Word Segmentation (focus on domain adaption)
  Task2: Chinese Parsing
  Task3: Chinese Personal Name disambiguation
  Task4: Chinese Word Sense Induction

Registration is open.  Welcome your participation.

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Call for papers: CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on
Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010)
August 28-29, Beijing, China

http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfp.htm

Background and Goals

With the rapid of expansion of Chinese language materials on the
Internet, the use of natural language technology as a way of harnessing
Chinese language content is drawing growing interest from researchers around
the globe. The rise of China as a global power with increasing influence on
the world stage is only fanning this interest. The Chinese language also has
a number of characteristics that make Chinese language processing
particularly challenging and intellectually rewarding. For example, written
Chinese text does not have conventionalized word boundaries like English and
other Western languages, and researchers have devoted an enormous amount of
energy to figuring out the best way to identify words, which is generally
considered to the first step for more advanced language processing tasks.
There have been four successful international Chinese word segmentation
bakeoffs sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on Chinese Language
Processing ( SIGHAN ), and they have drawn wide participation and have
greatly advanced the state-of-the-art in this area.  The Chinese language is
also characterized by the lack of formal devices such as morphological tense
and number that often provide important clues for shallow language
processing tasks like part-of-speech tagging and syntactic chunking. As a
result, solutions to Chinese language processing problems often require more
sophisticated language processing techniques that are capable of drawing
inferences from more subtle information.

Against this backdrop, the first conference on Chinese Language Processing
(CLP2010) jointly organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society of
China ( CIPS ) and SIGHAN, will be held on August 28-29, 2010 in Beijing,
right after COLING 2010 and in the same venue. The goal is to bring together
both established and aspiring researchers around the globe and provide a
unified forum for them to showcase their research achievements, share their
ideas, and frame research problems that are crucial in advancing the
state-of-the-art in Chinese language processing.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all
aspects of Chinese language processing, including but not limited to:

        word segmentation
        part-of-speech tagging
        syntactic chunking and parsing
        lexical semantics
        semantic role labeling
        word sense disambiguation
        lexicon acquisition
        corpus development  and language resources
        evaluation methods and user studies
        computational models of discourse
        temporal and spatial information processing
        sentimental analysis and opinion mining
        language generation
        information extraction
        question answering
        information retrieval
        dialogue systems
        machine translation

The CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing will also
feature four international bake-offs in Chinese Language Processing, and
these are:

        Chinese word segmentation
        Chinese Parsing
        Chinese Personal Name disambiguation
        Chinese Word Sense Induction

Please visit the website ( http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfpa.htm ) for
the details on these competitions.

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 2010, available at
http://www.coling-2010.org .  Since reviewing will be blind, manuscripts
should not include authors' names and affiliations.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:                May 30, 2010
Notification of Paper Acceptance:       Jun 30, 2010
Camera Ready Submission Deadline:   July 10, 2010
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