IJCNLP 2011
The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Call for Papers

The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011)
November 8-13, 2011
Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.ijcnlp2011.org

The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 8-13, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. IJCNLP 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.

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Topics

IJCNLP 2011 invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of language processing and computational linguistics,including, but not limited to:

* Phonology/morphology, tagging and chunking, and word segmentation
* Grammar induction and development
* Parsing algorithms and implementations
* Mathematical linguistics and grammatical formalisms
* Lexical and ontological semantics
* Formal semantics and logic
* Word sense disambiguation
* Semantic role labeling
* Textual entailment and paraphrasing
* Discourse, dialogue, and pragmatics
* Language generation
* Summarization
* Machine translation
* Information retrieval
* Information extraction
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
* Question answering
* Text mining and natural language processing applications
* NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
* NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
* Spoken language processing
* Speech recognition and synthesis
* Spoken language understanding and generation
* Language modeling for spoken language
* Multimodal representations and processing
* Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
* Speech translation
* Statistical and machine learning methods
* Language modeling for text processing
* Lexicon and ontology development
* Treebank and corpus development
* Evaluation methods and user studies
* Science of annotation

Important Dates

June 02, 2011 Submission deadline (new)
July 22, 2011 Notification of acceptance
August 19, 2011 Camera-ready submission
October 28, 2011 Early Registration Deadline
November 09 - 11, 2011 Conference period
Organizing Committee

Honorary Conference Chair
Chaiyong Eurviriyanukul (Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna, Thailand)
Chongrak Polprasert (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thailand)
Thaweesak Koanantakool (NSTDA, Thailand)
General Chair
Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Program Co-Chairs
Haifeng Wang (Baidu, China)
David Yarowsky (John Hopkins University, USA)
Organisation Co-Chairs
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
Jong Park (KAIST, Korea)
Noriko Kando (NII, Japan)
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)
Wei Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University, UK)
Demonstration Co-Chairs
Ken Church (John Hopkins University, USA)
Yunqing Xia (Tsinghua University, China)
Publication Co-Chairs
Min Zhang (I2R, Singapore)
Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Finance Co-Chairs
Vilas Wuwongse (AIT, Thailand)
Gary Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Asanee Kawtrakul (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
Methinee Sirikrai (NECTEC, Thailand)
Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)
Publicity Committee
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Le Sun (CIPS, China)
Kevin Knight (USC, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR,Italy)
Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Thailand)
Webmasters
Swit Phuvipadawat (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Wirat Chinnan, (SIIT, Thailand)
Local Organizers

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC, Thailand)
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University
Chiang Mai University (CMU, Thailand)
More Information

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