[Corpora-List] IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.3

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    *********** IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.3 (6th of Nov. 2003)***************

    The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
            organized by the Asia Federation of NLP associations (AFNLP)

      http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04
      http://www.colips.org/conference/ijcnlp04/ (mirror site in Singapore)
      http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ijcnlp04 (mirror site at USC)

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    [Date]
          Main Conference: March 22-24, 2004
          Workshops/symposium: March 25-26, 2004

    [Venue]
          Resort Golden Palm http://www.resortgp.com.cn/
          Sanya, Hainan island, China
          ***Land's End - Hainan is so remote on the sea that ancient people,
             while believing that earth is square, really thought it is where
             the land ends***
          http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/

    [Sponsoring Organizations]

    Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia
    Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
      Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei
    Korea NLP society, Seoul
    Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CLISC), Beijing
    (more to be added)

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    This issue contains

    [1] Publication Policy
    [2] Donation
    [3] Merger of two thematic sessions
    [4] The electronic submission site is now UP
    [5] Workshops and Satellite Symposium

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    [1] Publication Policy

    We are very glad to announce that:

      1. Springer Verlag has agreed to publish a selection of IJCNLP-2004
      papers as a book in its wellknown LNAI series. The editorial committee
      will make all efforts to include every worthwhile paper in this
      publication, which will have benefited from revision following
      discussions and comments at the conference.

      2. The proceedings of IJCNLP-2004 will be archived in the ACL anthology
      site for future reference.

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    [2] LATEST DONATION TO AFNLP FOR ITS INAUGURAL CONFERENCE IN HAINAN

    We are very grateful to our colleagues from the Association for
    Computational Linguistics and Chinese Langauge Processing in Taipei
    for joining the ranks of others in their generous support of the
    inaugaural conference of AFNLP in Hainan next march in spirit and in
    monetary terms.

    The contributions we will receive will go a long way towards helping
    promoting better cross-fertilization among NLP efforts in asia beyond
    the conference, especially with respect to colleagues working on
    languages not yet on centre stage. Thus far we have support pledged
    from the following organizations:

    Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia
    Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
      Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei
    Korea NLP society, Seoul
    Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CLISC), Beijing

    We would very much welcome similar reponse from other like minded
    organizations, which are in a position to add to the material support
    as well.

    Professors Kam-Fai Wong and Tom Lai are the chair and vice chair of
    the Finance committee for IJCNLP-04 and will be happy to follow up on
    any specific queries.

    We thank our colleagues in Taipei again and with all best wishes,

    Benjamin Tsou
    General Co-chair

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    [3] Merger of two thematic sessions

    Following two original Thematic Sessions have been merged into a new
    one:

    [Original TS-2] Natural Language Technology in the Text Processing
      User Interface (organized by Michael Kuehn and Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii)

    [Original TS-3] Mobile Information Retrieval (organized by Mun-Kew
      Leong)

    New Thematic Sessions after merge:

    [TS-1] Natural Language Learning using Both Labeled and Unlabeled Data
      (organized by: Hang Li)

    [New TS-2] Natural Language Technologies in Mobile Information
      Retrieval and Text Processing User Interfaces (organized by: Michael
      Kuehn, Mun-Kew Leong, and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii)

    [New TS-3] Text mining in Biomedicine (organized by: Sophia Ananiadou
      and Jong C. Park)

    The procedure for submitting papers to those Thematic Sessions would be
    exactly the same as that for submitting papers to other general areas
    (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submitijc.html).

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    [4] The electronic submission site is now UP

    You can get information necessary for submission from
    [Submission Information Web Site]:
      http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html

    And the submission site is:
    [Submission Web Site]:
      http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submitijc.html

    The submission deadline for both the general areas and thematic
    sessions are:
    [Deadline of Submission] 12 p.m. (midnight, JST), November 15

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    [5] Workshops and Satellite Symposium

    We will have the following four workshops and one satellite symposium
    on March 25 and/or 26, following the main conference. You find the
    details of these events in our web site. Another one or two workshops
    are now being planned and will be announced soon.

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    [W1] Asian Language Resources

    (Organiziers)
    Chair:
    Virach Sornlertlamvanich
    (Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Bangkok)
    Co-chairs:
    Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
    Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo)

    Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003

    ***
    [W2] Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering - Towards
      Systematizing and Automatic Evaluation

    (Organizers)
    Chin-Yew Lin (USC/ISI, Los Angeles)
    Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)

    Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2003

    ***
    [W3] Beyond shallow analyses - Formalisms and statistical modeling for
      deep analyses

    (Organizers)
    R. Kaplan (Parc, Palo Alto)
    M. Johnson (Brown University, Rhode Island)
    A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
    D. McAllester (Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago)
    Y. Miyao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
    S. Oepen (University of Oslo, Oslo and Stanford Univ., Palo Alto)
    S. Riezler (Parc, Palo Alto)
    J. Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
    H. Uszkoreit (DFKI and Saarbrueken University, Saarbrueken)

    Paper submission deadline: January 31, 2004

    ***
    [W4] Named Entity Recognition for Natural Language Processing
      Applications

    (Organizer)
    Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    Paper submission deadline: 8 December 2003

    ***Satellite Symposium***
    [SS1] Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome
      Language Barriers

    (Organizers)
    ISAHARA Hitoshi (Co-chair) - Communications Research Laboratory
    NITTA Yoshihiko (Co-chair) - Nihon University
    AKIBA Tomoyoshi - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
                      and Technology
    INUI Kentaro - Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    UTSURO Takehito - Kyoto University
    FUKUMOTO Jun'ichi - Ritsumeikan University
    NAKANO Mikio - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

    Submission of Extended Abstracts: December 2, 2003

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