ICON-2003: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
ICON-2003: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Manasgangotri
Mysore
18 - 21 December 2003
http://www.iiit.net/conferences/icon2003.html
[Sponsored by: NLP Association of India]
1st CALL FOR PAPERS
Outline
1. Topics
2. Format of Submission
3. Call for Tutorials
4. Important Dates
5. Committee
6. Contact information
The International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON)
will be held in Mysore, India during December 18-21, 2003. The
conference is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction
among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India
and abroad. The conference will be preceded by a day of pre-conference
tutorials on December 18, 2003.
1. TOPICS
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished
research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a
particular focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant
to India. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Linguistic and Computational Issues in Indian Languages
- Morphological processing
- Syntactic processing
Development and Standardisation of Lexical Resources
- Manual creation of Lexical Resources
- Automatic acquisition
- Standardization
- Innovative uses and priority areas
- Collection of corpora
- Annotation of corpora
- Lexicon and dictionaries
Statistical, Knowledge-based, and Hybrid Methods
- Language Modeling
- Language Analysis and Generation
- Grammar Acquisition
NLP Formalisms and Technologies
- Grammatical and Statistical NLP
- Word Sense Disambiguation Application areas such as
Systems
- System building experience
- Evaluation of systems
- Information Retrieval tools
- Internet oriented tools
Speech Processing
- Text to Speech systems
- Speech Recognition
- Special purpose applications
Input/Output Standards and Technologies
2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION
Authors should register the title and abstract of their paper
over the net. They should submit their papers, not to exceed
5000 words (including figures and references) either electronically
(preferable) or in hard copy. Papers should be in English. Papers
should include an abstract of about 100-200 words in length. Papers
outside the specified length are subject to rejection without
review. Since reviewing will be "blind", the authors' names and
affiliations along with the main area of the paper should be given
only on a separate cover sheet.
Those submitting by hard copy should send four copies of the paper.
Papers in electronic form can be in any of the following formats:
plain text, Postscript, PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF only).
Submissions in electronic form are preferred. If your paper contains
text of languages other than English, you must send all the relevant
font files with your submission.
3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be
of half-day or full-day duration and will be held on December 18, 2003.
The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract,
one page topical outline of the content, description of the proposers
and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.
Send papers and tutorial proposals to the ICON-2003 Secretariat. For
further information, please refer to the online submission link or
contact the ICON-2003 Secretariat.
4. IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration deadline June 10, 2003
Paper submission deadline June 15, 2003
Acceptance notification August 30, 2003
Camera ready copy due October 30, 2003
Tutorial proposals due June 30, 2003
Acceptance notification August 15, 2003
Lecture Materials for tutorial November 25, 2003
5. COMMITTEE
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh, CIIL, Mysore (Chair)
6. CONTACT INFORMATION
For paper submissions:
ICON-2003 Secretariat
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
(Formerly Indian Institute of Information Technology)
Deemed University
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019
Ph: +91-40-23001412 (direct); 23001969 (EPABX) Extn: 144
Fax: +91-40-23001413
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
