Call for Papers
Language Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy

The 22nd International Conference on the
Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 2009)

Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009
(Website: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~iccpol09)



Hosted by
Chinese and Oriental Languages Computer Society (COLCS)

Organized by
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong

Supported by
Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) (to be confirmed)
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia

Publication Sponsor
LNCS/LNAI Series, Springer

INTRODUCTION
The International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL) series is a regular international conference supported by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Society (COLCS), an international society founded in 1975. Recent ICCPOLs have been held in Hong Kong (1997), Tokushima, Japan (1999), Seoul, Korea (2001), Shenyang, China (2003), and Singapore (2006). This conference will be the 22nd gathering.

The conference serves as an international forum for linguists, computer scientists, information engineers and system users with interests in the computer processing and understanding of Oriental languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Cross- and multilingual information processing
2. Text input methods
3. Document analysis and character recognition
4. Natural language processing
5. Machine translation
6. Information retrieval and extraction
7. Question-answering
8. Text Summarization
9. Multilingual computing
10. Speech recognition and synthesis
11. Language resources and evaluation
12. Text mining and knowledge discovery
13. Web-based applications
14. E-commerce, education and entertainment


Original papers presenting innovative ideas, design principles, theoretical analysis, implementation techniques, programming concepts, and experimental results are solicited.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The proceedings of the conference are planned to be published as a volume in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. All submissions must therefore be formatted in accordance with the standard Springer style sheets ([LaTeX] [Microsoft Word]) and should be no more than 12 pages in length. Submissions should be in PDF format. Papers should be submitted electronically via: http://iccpol09.comp.polyu.edu.hk/myreview.

Selected best papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal in Computer Processing of Languages (IJCPOL).

Important Dates
Paper submission: September 26, 2008
Notification: November 17, 2008
Camera Ready: December 29, 2008
Date of Conference: March 26-27, 2009.

Authors should specify a preference for ORAL or POSTER presentation.

For more information about paper submission, please contact the Program Committee Co-chairs: Dr. Wenjie Li at cswjli@comp.polyu.edu.hk or Dr. Diego Molla at diego@ics.mq.edu.au.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Honorary Chairs:
Bonnie Dorr, University of Maryland, USA (2008 President, ACL) [to be invited]
Jong Hyeok Lee, POSTECH, Korea (President, COLCS)
Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University, USA (Chair, ACM SIGIR) [to be invited]
Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo Japan (President, AFNLP)

Conference Co-Chairs:
Qin Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Co-Chairs:
Wenjie Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Diego Molla, Macquarie University, Australia

Local Organization Chair:
Grace Ngai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Publication Chair:
Kit Chung Yu, The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong