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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 21th International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2017)
December 5-7, 2017
Singapore
http://www.colips.org/conferences/ialp2017
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The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series of conferences with unique focus on Asian Language Processing. The conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspects of Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in the different fields of language study all over the world to meet.

TOPICS
Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research in all aspects of Asian Language Processing, including, but not limited to:

Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages
Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages
Asian character encoding and compression
Multimodal representations and processing
Voice input and output
Phonology and morphology
Lexical semantics and word sense
Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse
Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing
Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing
Discourse analysis
Language, linguistic and speech resource development
Evaluation methods and user studies
Machine learning for natural language
Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation
Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
Text entailment and paraphrasing
Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering
Machine translation and multilingual processing
Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical Linguistics
Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing
Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation
Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
Speech recognition and synthesis
Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning
NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
Special hardware and software for Asian language computing

All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF) only. Paper submissions should follow the IEEE Proceedings' two-column format without exceeding four (4) pages including references. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to IEEE Proceedings' format. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines.

The official language of the conference is English. Papers submitted should be written in English.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Chair
Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Institute for Infocomm Research, and COLIPS

General Chair
Minghui Dong, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Program Chairs
Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology And Design
Rong Tong, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Organization Chair
Lei Wang, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Publication Chair
Yanfeng Lu, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Local Organizing Committee
Zhengchen Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS
Ridong Jiang, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS
Yaozhu Paul Chan, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

We are looking forward to seeing you at IALP2017