21.1987, Calls: Comp Ling, General Ling: Japan

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Date: 26-Apr-2010
From: Kei Yoshimoto < kei at compling.jp >
Subject: 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
 

	
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From: Kei Yoshimoto [kei at compling.jp]
Subject: 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

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Full Title: 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and 
Computation 
Short Title: PACLIC 24 

Date: 05-Nov-2010 - 07-Nov-2010
Location: Sendai, Japan 
Contact Person: Kei Yoshimoto
Meeting Email: paclic24 at compling.jp
Web Site: http://www.compling.jp/paclic24/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Jun-2010 

Meeting Description:

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/ 

Preliminary Call for Submission and Participation

PACLIC Steering Committee is pleased to announce that The Logico-
Linguistic Society of Japan will host PACLIC 24 at Tohoku University in 
Sendai, November 4th (Thursday) 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Paper submissions of original and unpublished research are invited on all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. Among the various research topics that may be addressed, 
one or more of the following issues may be included, to further mutual 
advancement among studies on language, information and computation:

-How formal linguistic analyses can and has informed language technology 
in advancing the development of language processing applications.
-What light theoretical linguistics has shed on the information demand of
natural language processing, and how it has led to large-scale machine-
usable language resources.
-How collections of learner language resources may improve learning, 
teaching and testing of native and non-native languages.
-What insights cognitive science, psycholinguistic research and brain 
imaging technology have brought about regarding the nature of language 
and language learning/acquisition.
-What is the limit of pure computational methods like machine learning in
language processing? What roles do related disciplines such as cognitive 
science and psycholinguistics have to play in bridging the gap between 
human and computer language processing?

Invited Speakers:
-Stanley Peters (Stanford University)
-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 Science and 
Technology)

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 LaTeX package is 
available at http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/paclic24/paclic24.zip. The MS 
Word template is also available at 
http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/paclic24/paclic24.doc.

Accepted papers will be presented in one of the regular sessions or 
interactive & poster sessions as determined by the program committee. 
Such decisions will be based on the nature rather than on the quality of the 
work submitted.

This year, we highlight Student Session, in which each student speaker will 
make a short oral presentation. The speakers also give poster 
presentations to explain the details of the research. The focus of the 
session is placed more on uniqueness, innovativeness, and 
interdisciplinarity than on completeness of the research. Bursaries covering 
partial travel expenses are available for excellent speakers. The best 
speaker of the session will be awarded a prize at the end of the conference.

On November 4th, the Workshop on Advanced Corpus Solutions (Chair: 
Janne Bondi Johannessen) and Workshop on Model and Measurement of 
Meaning (M3) (Chair: Shu-Kai Hsieh) will take place at the conference site 
as pre-conference workshops. We also invite paper submissions to those 
workshops.

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

A submission to Student Session or workshops must be specified by 
choosing the submission category for Student Session or one of the 
workshops.

Submissions will be judged based on reviewer scores for relevance to the
conference, clarity and readability, originality of approach proposed, 
technical and theoretical soundness, adequacy of reference and discussion 
of previous study, and interest to the attendees. Each submission will be 
reviewed by at least three program committee members and/or additional 
reviewers. As the reviewing process will be anonymous, manuscripts must 
not include the authors' names and affiliations and authors should be 
careful not to reveal their identities in the paper. Papers that do not conform 
to these requirements may be rejected without review.

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 for details.

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

Notices
-Inquiries about abstract submission should be sent to: paclic24 at 
compling.jp (at=@)
-Copyright c 2010 PACLIC 24 Organizing Committee. All rights reserved





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