PACLIC 24 Final Call for Papers

[Ryo Otoguro]

PACLIC 24 Call for Papers

The 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Dates: November 5th (Friday) - 7th (Sunday), 2010
Venue: Tohoku University Centennial Hall, Sendai, Japan
Call Deadline: June 14th, 2010
Web Site: http://www.compling.jp/paclic24/

Call for Papers:

PACLIC Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the
Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan and the Center for the Advancement
of Higher Education, Tohoku University will host PACLIC 24 at Tohoku
University in Sendai, November 5th (Friday) through 7th (Sunday),
2010. PACLIC 24, organized under the auspices of PACLIC Steering
Committee, will be the latest installment of our long standing
collaborative efforts among theoretical and computational linguists in
the Pacific-Asia region for providing an opportunity to share their
findings and interests in the formal and empirical study of languages.

Paper submissions of original and unpublished research are invited on
all aspects of both theoretical and computational linguistics. Topics
include but are not limited to: morphology, phonology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, typology, corpus
linguistics, formal grammar theory, language acquisition and language
learning, human and machine language processing, language resources
and language technology and possible applications of those research
areas. Papers exemplifying synergy of multi-disciplinary approaches on
the construction of language resources and system development that
would assist language learning are particularly encouraged.

This year, we will highlight Student Session, in which each student 
speaker will make a short oral presentation. The speakers will
also give poster presentations to explain the details of the
research. Visit the conference web site for more information.

Symposia and invited Speakers:

The following two symposia will be held during the conference. The
invited talks will be given in those symposia.

1. Toward a Linguistic Theory of Ba: Semantic and Pragmatics of Ba
Invited speaker: 
Stanley Peters (Stanford University)

2. Language Resources
Invited speakers:
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Thomas Hun-Tak Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Masataka Goto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sciences
and Technology)

Pre-conference workshops:

On November 4th, two pre-conference workshops will take place at the
conference site. We also invite paper submissions to those
workshops. Visit the following websites for details:

Workshop on Advanced Corpus Solutions
http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab/paclic/

Workshop on Model and Mesurement of Meaning (M3)
http://140.112.147.149:81/m3/workshop.htm

Paper Submission:

Submissions should describe substantial, original, and unpublished
work. Papers should be written in readable and plain English and may
not exceed ten (10) A4 size pages, including references. The style
files are available at the conference web site.

The deadline for paper submissions is 23:59 June 14th, 2010 JST
(GMT+9). Submissions should be made via Easychair at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paclic24

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
volume, which will subsequently be digitally archived at Waseda
University Library Institutional Repository and also sent to ISI for
indexing. PACLIC conference proceedings are indexed in the ISI Web of
Science since 2002 and authors are encouraged to cite previous PACLIC
papers in their work. See PACLIC Steering Committee web site
(http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/PACLIC-STEERING/index.html) for
details.

Inquiries about abstract submission should be sent to:

paclic24 at compling.jp (at=@)

Local Organizing Committee:

Kei Yoshimoto (Tohoku University)
Shigeru Sato (Juntendo University)
Chidori Nakamura (Iwate University)

Program Committee Chairs:

Ryo Otoguro (Waseda University), Program Chair
Yasunari Harada (Waseda University), Honorary Program Chair