LINGUIST List 21.3566 Wed Sep 08 2010 Calls: ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Editor for this issue: Dayn Schulert <daynlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Nianwen Xue, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Message 1: ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Date: 08-Sep-2010 From: Nianwen Xue <xuenbrandeis.edu> Subject: ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Linguistic Field(s): Chinese, Mandarin; Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2010 CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Special Issue on Chinese Language Processing The Chinese language has a number of characteristics that make Chinese language processing particularly challenging and intellectually rewarding. For example, written Chinese text does not have conventionalized word boundaries like English and other Western languages, and researchers have devoted an enormous amount of energy to figuring out the best way to identify words, which is generally considered the first step for more advanced language processing tasks. The Chinese language is also characterized by the lack of formal devices such as morphological tense and number that often provide important clues for shallow language processing tasks like part-of-speech tagging and syntactic chunking. As a result, solutions to Chinese language processing problems often require more sophisticated language processing techniques that are capable of drawing inferences from more subtle information. Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Chinese language processing. Substantial extensions of conference papers are also considered (TALIP requires a submitted paper to have at least 25% new content from a previously published version of the paper). The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - word segmentation - part-of-speech tagging - syntactic chunking and parsing - lexical semantics - semantic role labeling - word sense disambiguation - lexicon acquisition - corpus development and language resources - evaluation methods and user studies - computational models of discourse - temporal and spatial information processing - sentimental analysis and opinion mining - language generation - information extraction - question answering - information retrieval - dialogue systems - machine translation SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers should be formatted following the style guidelines for ACM Transactions (http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions). Please submit papers in PDF format using the web-based submission system Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip). In order to identify the submission as for the special issue, please indicate 'This paper is being submitted to the Special Issue on Chinese Language Processing' on the cover page of the paper. SCHEDULE: * Submission deadline: 15 Nov 2010 * First notification: 31 Dec 2010 * Revisions due: 31 Jan 2011 * Notification of final acceptance: 28 Feb 2011 * Final manuscript due: 7 Mar 2011 GUEST EDITORS: * Keh-Jiann Chen, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica * Qun Liu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University * Le Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.