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Call for Papers *
*regICON**-2015: *Third Regional International Conference on
Natural Language Processing
*September 18-19, 2015, Punjabi University,
Patiala,Punjab, India*
Website: http://regicon2015.learnpunjabi.org
The Natural Language Association of India (NLPAI) has recently taken an
initiative to promote NLP conferences or symposia focusing on regional
languages of India. One such symposium was held in December 2014,
co-located with ICON-2014 at Goa, focused on Dravidian languages. The idea
is to motivate NLP work on languages of various regions of India, including
those which are not "official" languages (i.e., not scheduled), and to
disseminate such work to the larger community. Such a conference or
symposium will allow researchers with common interests to come together and
share their results and have discussions. In continuation of that policy,
it has been decided that the next regional conference will be held in
Patiala and it will be focused on languages of the northern region of
India. The work featured at the conference will include building NLP tools
and systems and creating computationally useful resources for their
respective languages. Some languages of interest are Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu,
Kashmiri, Dogri and Sindhi.
The conference (regICON: Regional ICON) will feature papers and
presentations on various researches conducted on the theme - Indic Language
Processing: Situation, Challenges and Solutions - conducted by researchers
from universities and institutions from Globe. It will also include keynote
talks by distinguished invited speakers and a panel discussion. We seek
participation of researchers from both computer science and linguistics
backgrounds.
We invite submissions of *papers/Posters/Demos* on topics related to the
languages *Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri and Sindhi* that include,
but are not limited to, the following:
*Basic core technologies:* Morphological Analysis, Disambiguation,
Tokenization, POS Tagging, Named Entity Detection, Chunking, Parsing,
Semantic Role Labeling, Sentiment Analysis, etc.
*Linguistics:* Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology, Syntax, Semantics and
Pragmatics
*Applications:* Machine Translation, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis,
Optical Character Recognition, Pedagogy, Assistive Technologies, Social
Media, etc.
*Resources:* Dictionaries, Annotated Data, etc.
*Papers/Posters* are invited on original and unpublished work from research
on all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Linguistics pertaining to
languages of interest listed above. Submissions may include work in
progress as well as finished work. Preference will be given to submissions
having a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to languages of
interest. The language of submission (the language in which the papers are
written) can be any of the regional languages covered in this conference
with condition that the abstract will also be in English.
*Demos*
We also invite one-page descriptions of interesting tools related to above
mentioned topics. Authors should be ready to present demos of the tools
during the conference. See Demo submission instructions below.
*Demo* *Submission Instructions:*
Demo submissions consist of a 1-page product description. They should not
be anonymized. Please email your demo submissions directly to
[email protected] by1st August , 2015.
*Important Dates for Conference Papers:*
Paper submission deadline: 15th July, 2015
Paper/Demo acceptance notification: 15th August, 2015
Conference dates: September 18-19, 2015
Authors should submit their papers online on the conference website.
Unregistered authors should first create an account online to log on.
Further guidelines for submission are posted at:
http://regICON2015.learnpunjabi.org. Submitted papers will undergo a peer
review process, coordinated by the Program Committee.
*Publication:*
Selected papers will be *provided with mentors* for their improvement and
preparing their enhanced version. In enhanced version, the reviewer’s
suggestions and comments given during review process will be incorporated.
The enhanced version may be published in one of the following
journal/proceedings after the review process by their respective Editorial
Board Members:
1. Springer’s Language Resources and Evaluation Journal’s Special
Issue on Indic Language Processing (SCI Journal).
2. International Arab Journal of Information Technology (SCI Journal).
3. Proceedings of ICON 2015( International Conference on Natural
Language Processing) to be held in December 2015 at IIITMK, Trivendram.
*TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*
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*General Chair:*
Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIT-BHU,Varanasi.
*Program Chairs*
Prof. G.S.Lehal, Punjabi University Patiala, India
Prof. Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad
Dr. Vishal Goyal, Punjabi University, Patiala.
*Language Chairs:*
*Punjabi:* Prof. G.S.Lehal, Dr. Vishal Goyal
*Hindi:*Mr. Karunesh Arora , Dr. Kamlesh Dutta
*Kashmiri:*Prof. Aadil Aamin Kak, Prof. Mohd. Asger
*Dogri:*Prof. Devanand Padha, Dr. Shubhnandan Singh Jamwal
*Urdu:*Dr. Sarmad Hussain(To be confirmed), Dr. Tejinder Saini
*Sindhi:*Dr. M. R. Jetley , Dr. Bharat Ratanpal
*Organizing Chairs:*
Prof. Rajesh K. Bawa, Punjabi University Patiala, India
Prof. Neeraj Sharma, Punjabi University Patiala, India
*Organizing Secretaries:*
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Josan, Punjabi University Patiala.
Mr. Gurinder Singh Gosal, Punjabi University Patiala.
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*Regards,*
Vishal Goyal,
Ph.D., M.Tech., MCA, M.C.S.D.
Assistant Professor(Stage III),
Department of Computer Science,
Punjabi University Patiala-147002.
*Machine Translation Systems:*
[*Online Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation Tool -*
http://h2p.learnpunjabi.org ]
[*Statistical Approach Based Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System *
- http://statmt.org/~vishal/hp/index.cgi
- http://tdil-dc.in/hi2pu/index.cgi
]
*Online Journal: [Research Cell: An International Journal of Engineering
Sciences, http://ijoes.vidyapublications.com
<http://ijoes.vidyapublications.com>]*
*Book: A Simplified Approach to Data Structures, Shroff Publications and
Distributors*
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