Here is an updated announcement for ICON-03. Some topics which were
inadvertantly left out have been included.
= Secretariat, ICON-03
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ICON-2003: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Mysore
19 - 21 December 2003
http://www.iiit.net/conferences/icon2003.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sponsored by
NLP Association of India
Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Outline
1. Topics
2. Format of Submission
3. Call for Tutorials
4. Important Dates
5. Committees
6. Contact information
The International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON)
will be held in Mysore, India during December 19-21, 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 19, 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Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished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
- Semantic 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
- Ontology and Thesauri
- Example Based Machine Translation
- Grammar Acquisition
NLP Formalisms and Technologies
- Grammatical and Statistical NLP
- Grammatical and Statistical NLP
- Word Sense Disambiguation
Application areas
- Machine Translation
- Information Extraction
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Interface
- Question-Answering
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 19, 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. COMMITTEES
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
N Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore
Vineet Chaitanya, IIIT Hyderabad
Aravind K Joshi, University of Penn.
SP Mudur, Concordia University
PVS Rao, Tata Infotech, Mumbai
B Yegnanarayana, IIT Madras
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Udaya Narayana Singh, CIIL, Mysore (Chair)
Anvita Abbi, JNU New Delhi
Sushama Bendre, Univ. of Hyderabad
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay
BB Chaudhuri, ISI Calcutta
Hemant Darbari, CDAC Pune
B D Jayaram, CIIL Mysore
Amba Kulkarni, IIIT Hyderabad
B Mallikarjun, CIIL Mysore
Milind Malshe, IIT Bombay
Amitabh Mukherjee, IIT Kanpur
Hema Murthy, IIT Madras
Ranjani Parthasarathi, Anna Univ. Chennai
S Rajendran, Tamil Univ. Thanjavur
K V Ramakrishnamacharyulu, R.S.V.P., Tirupati
S V Ramanan, AU-KBC, Anna Univ. Chennai
G Umamaheshwara Rao, Univ. of Hyderabad
Durgesh D Rao, DR Systems, Mumbai
Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad
M Sasikumar NCST, Mumbai
Vijay Shanker, Univ. of Delaware
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad
B Srinivas, AT&T Research USA
K V Subba Rao, Delhi University, New Delhi
Om Vikas, Ministry of CIT, New Delhi
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]
Website: http://www.iiit.net/conferences/icon2003.html
