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First Call for Paper Submission

COLING Workshop 2010

Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP)

www.sanlp.org/wssanlp

Endorsed by Asian Language Resources Committee (ALRC), Asian Federation of NLP (AFNLP)

28 August, Beijing, China

Submission deadline: May 30, 2010



Motivation



The main motive behind the organization of South and Southeast Asian Natural Languages Processing (SSANLP) workshop is to bring together the community working on the South and Southeast Asian languages covering all aspects of natural language processing and computational linguistics such as development of computational resources, morphology, syntax, semantics and machine translation. This is a long term commitment and goal, which cannot be achieved through a single workshop. Hence, we are planning to make this workshop an annual or biennial event collocated with one of the major ACL conferences and focusing on certain specific NLP issues. The current workshop focuses on the phenomena of rich Morphology of South and South East Asian languages and the complex segmentation in these languages.



Topics



Morphology is one of the core processes of Natural Language Processing (NLP). With the knowledge of rules for inflection, derivation, and compounding, we are able to generate and understand the word forms that are mandatory to communicate, including the creation of new words from existing words. To be acquainted with a language, we have to master the rules of syntax and morphology as these are crucial rudiments for dealing with semantics or even pragmatics. In NLP, morphological resources are the basis for all higher level developments and applications. It is especially true for languages with rich morphology like Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, etc. A morphological analysis component is crucial for analyzing word forms in the whole corpus. Generation of surface forms corresponding to a root is also essential from practical point of view. Another major challenge for understanding the word forms is the segmentation of the source text. The task of morphology, however, is intimately linked with segmentation for said languages. Apart from the uses in NLP, there are useful practical applications where morphological analysis and/or generation are required, e.g., in text processing, user interfaces, and information retrieval.

The topics of interest for SSANLP workshop include (but not limited to) the following related to the morphology and segmentation of South and Southeast Asian languages:

* The complexity of word level processing
* Frameworks for morphological processing
* Universal morphotactic phenomena across South and Southeast Asian languages
* Lexicon and Rule-basis for morphological analysis
* New formalisms, or computational treatments of existing linguistic formalisms for the said languages
* Probabilistic models and machine learning for morphology and segmentation
* Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, and diachronic data
* Algorithms, including finite-state methods
* Algorithms and methods for automatic development of morphological analysis from the corpus
* Generic morphological analyzer for South and Southeast Asian Languages
* Communication of morpho-tactics with its neighboring layers in the linguistic process (i.e. Morpho-syntactics and Morpho-phonemics) for the said languages
* Usability or extensibility of existing tools like KIMMO, XFST, ATEF, etc. for the development of morphological analyzer for South and Southeast Asian languages
* Tools and resources



Author Instructions



Authors are invited to submit substantial, original and completed research work relevant to the topics of the workshop in form of regular papers. Authors are also invited to submit a small, focused contribution, work in progress, a negative result and an opinion piece in form of short papers.

* Regular papers may consist of up to 8 pages, plus additional pages for references.
* Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages, plus additional pages for references.

All submissions must follow and conform to the official COLING 2010 Style guidelines to be announced on the conference website www.coling-2010.org

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...", must be used. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Dual submission policy: If you have submitted or plan to submit your paper in other venues, then you must indicate this fact during submission to SSANLP. Note that if your paper is accepted in SSANLP then you must withdraw the same paper from other venues in order to get it published in the proceedings of SSANLP.



Important Dates



Paper submission: May 30, 2010

Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2010

Camera ready paper due: July 7, 2010

Workshop: August 28, 2010



Journal Issue



The organizers plan to publish selected high quality submissions to SSANLP as a special issue of a reputed scientific journal.



Contact



ssanlp2010@sanlp.org



Workshop Chair



Aravind K. Joshi



Program Committee



Ranaivo-Malançon Bali Multimedia University, Malaysia

Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University, India

Vincent Berment GETALP-LIG / INALCO, France

Laurent Besacier GETALP-LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France

Pushpak Bhattacharyya IIT Bombay, India

Christian Boitet GETALP-LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France

Nicola Cancedda Xerox Research Center Europe, France

Eric Castelli International Research Center MICA, Vietnam

Luong Chi Mai Institute of IT, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Laurence Danlos University Paris 7, France

Georges Fafiotte GETALP-LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France

Pascale Fung Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

John A. Goldsmith University of Chicago, USA

Gérard Heut INRIA, France

San San Hnin Tun Cornell University, USA

Sarmad Hussain National University, Pakistan

Abid Khan University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Mumit Khan BRAC University, Bangladesh

Wunna Ko Ko Northern Illinois University, USA

Bal Krishna Bal University of Kathmandu, Nepal

A. Kumaran Microsoft Research, India

Gurpreet Singh Lehel Punjabi University Patiala, India

Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Christian Monson OHSU, USA

Annie Montaut INALCO, Paris, France

Sackona Phoeurng Institute of Technology, Cambodia

Hammam Riza Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) – Indonesia

Rajeev Sangal IIIT Hyderabad, India

Anne Schiller Xerox Research Center Europe, France

L. Sobha AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India

Chan Somnoble Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Virach Sornlertlamvanich TCL, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Thailand

Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka

Khaver Zia Beacon House National University, Pakistan



Chair of Organizing Committee



M. G. Abbas Malik email: Abbas.Malik@imag.fr



Organizing Committee



Aasim Ali CRULP, National University, Pakistan.

Asif Ekbal University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Dulip Herath School of Computing, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Hong-Thi Nguyen GETALP-LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France.

M. G. Abbas Malik GETALP-LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France.

M. Humayoun Université de Savoie, France.

Menaka Sankaralingam Anna University, India.

Monojit Choudhury Microsoft Research, India.

Sadaf Abdul Rauf Université du Maine, France.

Smriti Singh IITB, India.



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M G Abbas Malik
Lecturer

Université de Grenoble (Ex : Université Joseph Fourier),
Groupe d'Etude pour la Traduction Automatique et le Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole (GETALP)
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) / Grenoble Informatics Laboratory

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