LINGUIST List 22.4186 Tue Oct 25 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/China Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Ping Chen , Special Session: Natural Language Processing at AIE 2012 Message 1: Special Session: Natural Language Processing at AIE 2012 Date: 24-Oct-2011 From: Ping Chen <chenpuhd.edu> Subject: Special Session: Natural Language Processing at AIE 2012 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Special Session: Natural Language Processing at AIE 2012 Date: 09-Jun-2012 - 12-Jun-2012 Location: Dalian, China Contact Person: Ping Chen Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/index.htm Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: Special Session: Natural Language Processing and its Applications 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems June 9-12, 2012 - Dalian, China http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/index.htm The amount of information and knowledge represented in natural languages is vast and increasing rapidly as advances in modern communication significantly improve how human society create, share, and process information. This special session will reflect the recent progress in Natural Language Processing and provide a platform for researchers in this field to exchange ideas and further widen its applications. Session topics include but not limited to the following: Information extraction Information retrieval Biomedical text mining Clinical record management Text categorization Document clustering Word sense disambiguation Automatic text summarization Machine translation Parsing and part-of-speech tagging Coreference resolution Discourse analysis Named entity recognition Natural language generation Natural language understanding Question answering Relationship extraction Sentiment analysis Speech recognition Speech segmentation Topic segmentation and recognition Word segmentation Word sense disambiguation Speech processing Call for Papers: Submission Format: Authors are invited to electronically submit their paper, written in English, of up to 10 single spaced pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the special session. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art AI methodologies are also acceptable when they reflect lessons of unique value to the conference attendees. Shorter works, up to 6 pages, to be presented in 10 minutes, may be submitted as short papers representing work in progress or suggesting possible research directions. Please visit the conference website at http://ssdut.dlut.edu.cn/iea-aie/webpages/index.htm for submission format. All submissions for this special session should be at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieaaie2010 Please indicate that your submission is for this special session in the title of the first page of your submission. Publications: Each submission will receive at least two reviews. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as regular papers by Springer-Verlag (format instructions available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in its 'Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence' series. Referees will be asked to nominate papers for a Best Paper Award to be announced at the conference. Outstanding papers in the session will be automatically considered for publication in an expanded form in selected international journals, including Applied Intelligence, Soft Computing, Evolutionary Intelligence, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 5, 2012 Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2012 Camera ready form: February 20, 2012 Author registration: February 1, 2012 Early registration: Before March 1, 2012 Late registration: March 1, 2012 Conference date: June 9-12, 2012 Session Organizers: Dr. Hisham Al-Mubaid, University of Houston-Clear Lake, hishamuhcl.edu Dr. Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown, chenpuhd.edu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Oct-2011       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.