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net1.hkbu.edu.hk>- ------------------------CUT HERE------------------------- ICCPOL'97 Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages Hong Kong, April 2-4, 1997 You are invited to participate in the 17th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages to be held on April 2-4, 1997 at the Lam Woo International Conference Centre in Hong Kong. THEME OF CONFERENCE: Oriental language processing on information super highways CONFERENCE TOPICS: This conference serves as an international forum for linguists, computer scientists, information engineers and system users with interests in computer processing and understanding of Oriental languages. Papers are to be presented in either oral or poster session and include the following subject categories: . Digital libraries . Document image analysis and OCR . Human computer interaction . Information retrieval . Input methodologies . Machine translation . Multimedia computing . Multi-lingual computing . Natural language processing . Novel font design and generation . Speech understanding and generation . World Wide Web, and other areas of linguistics High quality papers presenting innovative ideas, design principles, theoretical analysis, implementation techniques, programming concepts, experimental results, and in-depth tutorials are solicited. The use of prototypes and demonstration video for presentations is encouraged. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. In addition, selected papers will be considered for special issues of these journals: . Computer Processing of Oriental Languages . Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence CONFERENCE SITE: Lam Woo International Conference Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong PAPER SUBMISSION: You are invited to submit four copies of a full paper no longer than 20 double-spaced pages for oral session, or four copies of a two-page double-spaced abstract for poster session. Papers for oral or poster sessions should be submitted to the following address: Prof. Seong-Whan Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-ku, Seoul 136-701, Korea Tel: (+82)-2-920-2168 Fax: (+82)-2-926-2168 E-mail: swleeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
mic.dundee.ac.uk>************************************************** WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NON-SPEAKING PEOPLE Dundee, Scotland, 26th and 27th September 1996 ************************************************** Announcement and call for contributions ++ Please forward to other people who might be interested. ++ Please contact us or use form if you have any comments or if you are interested in participation. Please register before 10th June 1996. WWW-announcement and form also to be found at: http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/~slanger/workshop.html DATE AND LOCATION Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September 1996 at Dundee University, Scotland, UK . The main workshop will be held on Friday 27th, discussion groups and instructional courses will take place on Thursday 26th. The workshop is being organised by the MicroCentre, University of Dundee If you need it, we can send you travel and accommodation information, and we can also help you with accomodation booking. AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP: AAC, COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND INTELLIGENT TEXT RETRIEVAL Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) means any form of communication that can be used instead of speech or ordinary writing. Many people with speech impairment can't use ordinary spoken language and therefore rely on special devices to communicate. Computer based electronic devices occupy a very important place among communication aids. So far, most of the currently used devices don't make much use of techniques from natural language processing (NLP), but there is a growing interest in evaluating those techniques for use in AAC. Syntactic and semantic information can be used for word prediction in order to speed up composition of messages; intelligent text retrieval, based on large lexicons, can be useful for communication aids relying on pre-stored messages. Pragmatic knowledge can be used to organise messages in a user-friendly way. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in investigating connections between natural language processing and AAC. The workshop will concern itself with the lexicon, semantics and syntax and pragmatics. Another subject will be intelligent text retrieval for message based communication aids. It is not planned to discuss speech synthesis, although AAC-specific topics from this area might be included if there is enough interest. WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATION? Researchers in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics, Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence who are interested in the field of AAC Researchers in AAC who are using or intend to use techniques from NLP Researchers who have designed or are designing a communication aid which makes use of any kind of NLP (lexical, syntactic or semantic knowledge etc.). HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE Anything from traditional presentations to suggestions for subjects for a short seminar is welcome. You can also show research prototypes or communication aids making use of NLP. POSSIBLE TOPICS (THIS IS AN OPEN LIST!): * which communication aids do currently use NLP techniques? * which techniques from NLP can be applied successfully in AAC? * which are the benefits for AAC? * use of lexicons in communication aids: types of information, size ... * message and text retrieval for communication aids and information retrieval * statistical NLP and AAC * intelligent word prediction: any use for syntax & semantics? * language acquisition and rehabilitation: improving language skills with intelligent AAC-devices COSTS There will be a small fee (UK pounds 15, ~ECU 19, ~$ 22) to cover costs. The fee is to be paid by cheque (payable to the University of Dundee: UK participants) or at the workshop (overseas). REGISTRATION AND COMMENTS Registration, questions, ideas, feedback to: Stefan Langer MicroCentre, University of Dundee Park Wynd Dundee DD1 4HN Scotland, UK Tel: +44 1382 345080 Fax: +44 1382 345509 e-mail: slangerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue