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International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2005
Oct. 10-15, 2005 at Jeju Island, Korea
URL: http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/
IJCNLP2005 Newsletter No.2 (April/11/2005)
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Conference Chair: Key-Sun Choi
Program Co-chairs: Robert Dale, Kam-fai Wong
complied by Publicity Chairs: Hiroshi Nakagawa and Jong C. Park
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The publicity chairs of IJCNLP05 plan to issue newsletter to inform you of
the latest information about IJCNLP05. This is the second Newsletter of
INCNLP05 this year.
This newsletter includes
1) Workshop List
2) Call For Papers of Workshops
You can see the updated information about IJCNLP05 on
http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/
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1) Workshops
The following five workshops are associated with IJCNLP05.
Workshop 1:Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN4)
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4
Workshop 2:The 5th workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR-05)
http://www.cl.cs.titech.ac.jp/alr/WS/5th/index.html
Workshop 3:The Third International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)
http://nlp.nagaokaut.ac.jp/IWP2005/
Workshop 4:6th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora
(LINC-2005)
http://www.delph-in.net/events/05/linc/
Workshop 5:OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ontolex2005
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2) Call For Papers of Workshops
+++ Workshop 1:Call for Papers +++
Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/
October 14-15, 2005, Jeju Island, Korea
Background and Goals
Growing interest in Chinese Language Processing is leading to the development
of resources such as annotated corpora, automatic word segmenters, part-of-
speech taggers and parsers. As more resources have become available recently,
it is crucial to create a platform that allows easy exchange of information
and data and the comparison of different approaches to various NLP tasks. The
SIGHAN workshops provide a forum where the latest research in these areas can
be shared.
The Second SIGHAN Workshop held in Sapporo with ACL2003 included the First
International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff, where 12 systems from
Industry and Academia from six countries were evaluated, generating
significant interest. The Third SIGHAN Workshop held in Barcelona followed on
with wide-ranging technical presentations and began planning a Fourth SIGHAN
workshop with a new bakeoff.
IJCNLP-05 in Korea will provide an opportunity to bring together again
influential researchers from Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong,
as well as Chinese language researchers around the world, to discuss a range
of issues.
The first day of the workshop will consist of papers on all aspects of
Chinese language processing, including but not limited to:
* word segmentation,
* POS tagging,
* parsing,
* lexical semantics,
* word sense disambiguation,
* lexicon acquisition,
* corpus development,
* discourse processing,
* generation,
* cross-lingual information retrieval, and
* machine translation.
The second half-day of the workshop will present results from the Second
International Chinese Segmentation Bakeoff to be held in the summer of 2005.
Participants will choose from five training and testing corpora. The bakeoff
is being organized by Tom Emerson (Basis Technology, Corp.) and Jianfeng Gao
(Microsoft Research). Information, including information on the task,
important dates, and submission of working papers will be made available on
the SIGHAN website.
(http://www.sighan.org/bakeoff2005/).
A SIGHAN business meeting will discuss lessons learned and future plans.
+++Important dates+++
* Paper submissions due: May 31, 2005
* Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2005
* Camera-ready due: July 23, 2005
* Workshop dates: October 14-15, 2005
Submission Information
Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages
including references, figures, etc. Authors are required to follow the
guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX
style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file
page. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please upload your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following
address:
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/submit/
Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title as requested on the upload site. For more
information, contact the workshop organizers by using the e-mail address
below.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Workshop website
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/
Program committee:
Gina-Anne Levow - University of Chicago, USA (co-chair)
Chu-ren Huang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair)
Joyce Chai - Michigan State Univ, USA
Keh-Jian Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tom Emerson - Basis Technology Corp, U.S.A.
Pascale Fung - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
K.L.Kwok - Queens College, USA
Tom Lai - City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Qin Lu - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Qing Ma - Ryukoku University, Japan
Sun Maosong - Tsinghua University, China
Masaki Murata - Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
Shimei Pan - IBM, USA
Richard Sproat - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Keh-Yih Su - Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Benjamin Tsou - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dekai Wu - Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong
Nianwen Xue - Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Qiang Zhou - Tsinghua University, China
Contact person:
Gina-Anne Levow
University of Chicago
1100 E 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Phone: +1-773-702-5680
Fax: +1-773-702-8487
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+++ Workshop 2:Call For Paper +++
The 5th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
Jeju Island, Korea, October 14, 2005
Last modified: Wed Apr 6 14:18:59 2005
Description
The 5th workshop on Asian Language Resources is organized under the auspices
of the Asian Language Resources Committee of AFNLP and will be held in
conjunction with IJCNLP2005. The purposes of this workshop are:
* To investigate the situation of Asian Language Resources, and to make a
catalog of the result of this investigation
* To investigate and discuss the problems related to the standards and
specification on creating various levels of language resources
* To promote communications between developers and users of various language
resources in order to fill the gap between language resources and practical
applications
* To launch a roadmap for Asian Language Resources
We welcome papers concerning, but are not limited to the following issues.
* Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
* Meta data for resource classification and discovery
* Exchange and annotation schemata
* Exchange formats
* Standards or specifications for language resources
* Standards or specifications for content management
* Language resources for basic NLP tasks (word segmentation, named entity
recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, etc.)
* Language Resources for HLT applications, such as information retrieval,
information extraction, question answering, machine translation, etc.
* Text corpora
* Lexicons
* Grammars
* Machine-readable dictionaries
* Ontology
* Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation
Submission Information
Submissions should follow the format of the IJCNLP-05 main conference and
should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. We strongly recommend
the use of the LaTeX style files or Word style files provided by IJCNLP-05.
The files and the detailed description of the format are available at the
following site.
http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/archives4.html
Since the reviewing process will be blind, the papers should not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity should be avoided. All papers must be submitted
electronically via e-mail to ZHAO Jun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by May 30, 2005.
PDF and PostScript files are acceptable. In the body of the submission e-
mail, please include the following information: title, name(s) of author(s),
affiliation(s), e-mail address of the contact person. Confirmation of the
receipt of the submission will be sent to the contact person by email.
Program Committee
* Bo Xu (chair) - Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Chu-Ren Huang (co-chair) - Acdemia Sinica
* Takenobu Tokunaga (co-chair) - Tokyo Institute of Technology
* Jun Zhao (co-chair) - Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Benjamin Tsou - City University of Hong Kong
* Donghong Ji - Institute for Inforcomm Research, Singapore
* Kiyong Lee - Korea University
* Maosong Sun - Tsinghua University
* Hae-Chang Rim - Korea University
* Kiyoaki Shirai - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
* Nicoletta Calzolari - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
* Qin Lu - Polytechnique University of HK
* Shiwen Yu - Peking University
* Shuichi Itahashi - University of Tsukuba
* Virach Sornlertlamvanich - Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratora, CRL
Schedule
Paper submission due : May 30, 2005
Notification of acceptance : June 27, 2005
Camera-ready papers due : July 25, 2005
Workshop date : October 14, 2005
Venue
TBA. Jeju Island, Korea.
Program
TBA
Tokunaga, Takenobu
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+++ Workshop 3:Call for Paper +++
The 3rd International Workshop on Paraphrasing (IWP2005)
IJCNLP-05 Workshop
October 14, 2005, Jeju Island, South Korea
Paper Submission Deadline: May 31(tentative).
Background and Goals
Paraphrases are alternative ways to convey the same information. As having
been claimed by an increasing number of researchers, technology for
generating and recognizing paraphrases can potentially benefit a broad range
of NLP tasks including machine translation, reading assistance, multi-
document summarization, information retrieval, and question answering.
Motivated by this background, we organized international workshops on
automatic paraphrasing in 2001 and 2003 (IWP2003), which successfully drew
the growing interest of NLP researchers. As both workshops attracted
attention and successfully finished, we will hold the third workshop in
conjunction with IJCNLP-05, in order to collect existing and emerging
research topics on automatic paraphrasing during the recent two years.
The proposed workshop is intended to be the successor to these previous
workshops. The goals of the workshop are to connect with a broader range of
research activities related to automatic paraphrasing, and to place the
workshops in a series with the aim of establishing a new research field.
General Topics
The workshop will be open to any research topic related to paraphrasing of
any language. More specifically, topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
* typology of paraphrases
* representation of paraphrases
* automatic acquisition of paraphrases
* algorithms for recognizing and generating paraphrases
* existing and potential applications of automatic paraphrasing
* computational modeling of linguistic theories on paraphrases
* open resources for paraphrasing technology
* methods for evaluating paraphrasing technology
Given the location of the workshop, papers focusing on paraphrasing within
the languages of the Asia-Pacific region are particularly encouraged.
Special Topic: constructing paraphrase-related resources
The theme of the previous workshop in the series was the automated
acquisition of paraphrase. A particular topic of interest for this workshop,
then, is the issue of constructing paraphrase-related resources that would
follow from this automated acquisition: What should these look like? How
would dictionaries and corpora of automatically acquired paraphrases be
defined?
Submission Information
Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages
including references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow the
guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX
style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file
page. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following
address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more
information, please make contact with the workshop co-chairs by using the
same e-mail address above.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: May, 31, 2005 (tentative)
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005 (tentative)
Camera ready manuscripts due: August 5, 2005 (tentative)
Workshop date: October 14, 2005
Workshop Organizers
Mark Dras, Macquarie University Australia
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Please use the following e-mail address to contact us: iwp2005-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Program Committee
* Caroline Brun (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
* Mark Dras (co-chair, Macquarie University, Australia)
* Ulf Hermjakob (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan)
* Gen'ichiro Kikui (ATR-SLT, Japan)
* Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK)
* Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
* Satoshi Sato (Kyoto University, Japan)
* Yusuke Shinyama (New York University, USA)
* Noriko Tomuro (DePaul University, USA)
* Hua Wu (Toshiba China, P.R.China)
* Kazuhide Yamamoto (co-chair, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
* Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China)
Created: <05/03/09> and Updated: <05/03/20 19:22> by Kazuhide Yamamoto
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+++ Workshop 4: Call For Paper +++
6th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2005)
A workshop to be held at The Second International Joint Conference on Natural
Language Processing (IJCNLP-05)
Jeju Island, 15 October 2005
Submission Deadline: June 7, 2005
Organized by:
Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories),
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo & Stanford University), and
Kyonghee Paik (ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories)
Topic and Motivation
Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly important role
for machine learning, evaluation, psycholinguistics as well as theoretical
linguistics. Many research groups are engaged in the creation of corpus
resources annotated with morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse
information for a variety of languages. We aim to bring together these
activities in order to identify and disseminate best practice in the
development and utilization of linguistically interpreted corpora.
The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results with
respect to the annotation, conversion and exploitation of corpora taking into
account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of
language technology and research. We invite submissions of papers
constituting substantial, original, and unpublished work on all aspects of
linguistically interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to:
* creation of practical annotation schemes;
* efficient annotation techniques;
* automation of corpus annotation;
* tools supporting corpus conversions;
* validation including consistency checking of corpora;
* browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic phenomena;
* relating actual annotation to contemporary linguistic theory;
* interpretation of quantitative results; and
* use of annotated corpora in the automated induction of linguistic
knowledge.
As this is the first time the workshop will be held outside Europe, we
particularly welcome work on non-European languages and the problems
associated with them --- segmentation, spelling variation, different
encodings and so forth.
Schedule
Paper submission deadline: June 7, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
Camera ready manuscripts due: August 5, 2005
Workshop date: October 15, 2005
Registration
Please refer to the main conference web pages for registration details.
Proceedings
Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages
including references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow the
guidelines of IJCNLP-05 conference workshop style, by using either the LaTeX
style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file
page). Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following
address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more
information, please make contact with the workshop co-chairs by using the
same e-mail address above.
We are currently investigating subsequent publication as a journal special
issue.
Programme Committee
* Anne Abeille, Paris
* Olga Babko-Malaya, Pittsburgh
* Francis Bond (co-chair), Keihanna
* Colin Baker, Berkely
* Pierrette Bouillon, Geneva
* Thorsten Brants, Palo Alto
* John Carroll, Sussex
* Huang Chu-Ren, Taipei
* Montserrat Civit Torruella, Barcelona
* Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana
* Jan Hajic, Prague
* Chung-hye Han, British Columbia
* Silvia Hansen, Saarland
* Erhard Hinrichs, T?bingen
* Beom-mo Kang, Seoul
* Sadao Kurohashi, Tokyo
* Frank Keller, Edinburgh
* Brigitte Krenn, Vienna
* Joakim Nivre, Vaxj?
* Stephan Oepen (co-chair), Oslo and Stanford
* Kyonghee Paik (co-chair), Keihanna
* Laurent Romary, Nancy
* Kiril Simov, Sofia
* Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Keihanna
* Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbr?cken
* Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki
* Nianwen Xue, Pittsburgh
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+++ Workshop 5:Call for Paper +++
OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources
October 15, 2005 Jeju Island, South Korea
Background and Goals
The new framework of Information Society fostered the growing of the HLT area
and the project of turning the World Wide Web into a machine understandable
resource to access digital information (the so-called Semantic Web), posing
new challenges for integrated technologies. Lexicographers, lexical
semanticists and ontologists are joining forces to build innovative systems
for integrating ontological knowledge with lexical and semantic resources.
Important examples of this interaction are the recent works on the conceptual
analysis of WordNet, and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative
international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet, etc.
OntoLex 2005 will be the fourth workshop on Ontologies and Lexical
Knowledge Bases, following OntoLex 2000, 2002, and 2004. In this workshop we
want to discuss the relation between ontological knowledge and language. A
special focus will be on the role of ontologies in multilingual language
processing. This relation can be investigated from a number of different
angles, for example:
- - what differences and similarities there are between ontologies and more
traditional lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets;
- - how ontologies can be extracted from language corpora;
- - what role language plays in the definition and mapping of ontologies;
- - how to enrich semantic information in wordnets using formal tools;
- - how ontologies can be used to treat language in language technology
applications.
Ontologies and lexical resources can benefit from each other and converge
into a unified framework where semantics is provided by formally rigorous
ontological and lexical information.
Topics of interests
The workshop is open to any research contribution dealing with the relation
between ontologies and lexicons. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
Design principles and methodologies for ontologies and semantic lexical
resources, with a special focus on Asian languages
Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and lexical
semantic resources
The role of ontologies in the development of Inter-Lingual-Index (ILI)
Applications of ontologies and lexical semantic resources in Information
Retrieval and Information Extraction
Use of ontologies and lexical resources in Semantic Web applications
Role of lexical semantic resources in ontology learning
Ontology-based query expansion techniques
Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources
Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: June 10, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2005
Camera ready manuscripts due: August 5, 2005
Workshop date: October 15, 2005
Submission Information
Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages
including references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow the
guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX
style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file
page. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following
address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more
information, please make contact with the workshop organizers by using the
same e-mail address above.
Organizing Committee
Chu-Ren Huang
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Taiwan (co-chair)
Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Italy (co-chair)
Alessandro Oltramari, LOA-CNR? Italy (co-chair)
Program Committee
Paul Buitelaar, DFKI - Germany
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR Italy
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University - USA
Aldo Gangemi, LOA-CNR Italy
Asanee Kawtrakul, KU Thailand
Kiyong Lee, Korea University Korea
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NICT Thailand
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo Japan
Paola Velardi, University of Rome �gLa Sapienza�h Italy
Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
Shiwen Yu, Peking University China
Contact person
Alessandro Lenci
University of Pisa, Department of Linguistics
Via Santa Maria 36
56126 Pisa
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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