LINGUIST List 8.1771

Wed Dec 10 1997

Calls: Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, NLP

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Jong-Hyeok Lee, Final CFP (Special Issue of IR on Oriental Languages)
2. Kemal Oflazer, CALL FOR PAPERS - FSMNLP'98

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 COMPUTER PROCESSING OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES

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 Special Issue: "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages"

INTRODUCTION
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 The International Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages
(CPOL) is devoted to the publication of original theoretical and applied
research work in oriental language computing. In particular, this special
issue focuses on the field of "Information Retrieval on Oriental
Languages".

 The increasing volume of information available globally through the
World-Wide-Web places high demands on the information search engines in
terms of both speed and effectiveness. As a result, much research interest
in Information Retrieval (IR) has been spurred in recent years in the
direction of performance and/or effectiveness enhancement, e.g. in the
areas of indexing, NLP, etc. Although the latest IR researches in English,
and in other Western languages, are widely and timely publicized, the same
for Oriental Languages (OL) is rare. For this reason, this special issue
is dedicated to reporting the state-of-the-art and/or state-of-the-
practice R&D efforts in IR technology for Oriental languages (IR-OL). Ori-
ginal papers in all areas of research in this field, including, but not
limited to, the following are invited:

* Natural Language Processing for IR-OL

* Automatic Information Extraction

* Multilingual and Cross Language Text Retrieval

* Automatic Text Categorization

* Automatic Text Summarization (Abstraction)

* Structural and Conceptual Indexing

* Dictionary Management

* Query Interface

* Intelligent Agent Technology

* Information Filtering

* Resource Discovery

* Logic based IR Framework

* Applications in IR-OL

* Benchmarking


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
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 Original papers which are not submitted to, under reviewed by and pub-
lished or to be published in other journals or conferences in any areas of
IR-OL are invited to this special issue for possible publication. The pub-
lication language is ENGLISH and electronic submission is welcome. Authors
should send FOUR copies of their paper to one of the following co-editors
by January 2, 1998:

For papers in relation to IR on Korean and Japanese:

 Professor Jong-Hyeok Lee
 Department of Computer Science and Engineering
 POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
 San 31 Hyoja-dong Nam-ku, Pohang 790-784
 Republic of Korea
 Email: jhleevision.postech.ac.kr
 Tel: +82 562 279 2253
 Fax: +82 562 279 5699

For papers in relation to IR on Chinese and any other Oriental languages:

 Professor Kam-Fai Wong
 Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
 Chinese University
 Shatin, N.T.,
 Hong Kong.
 Email: kfwongse.cuhk.edu.hk
 Tel: +852 2609 8332 or +852 2609 8313
 Fax: +852 2603 5505

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline (confirmed): January 2, 1998.
Author Notification (confirmed): April 3, 1998.
Final Version (tentative): July 7, 1998.
Publication (tentative): September, 1998.


	Jong-Hyeok Lee (Associate Professor)

	Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
	POSTECH(Pohang University of Science & Technology)
	San 31 Hyoja-dong Nam-ku, Pohang, 790-784
	Republic of KOREA

	TEL: +82-(0)562-279-2253
	FAX: +82-(0)562-279-5699, 2299
	E-mail: jhleevision.postech.ac.kr
	URL: http://madonna.postech.ac.kr/~jhlee

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 FSMNLP'98
 International Workshop
 on
 FINITE STATE METHODS
 IN
 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

 June 29 - July 1, 1998
 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

 sponsored by
EACL - European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
TUBITAK- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council(*)
NATO Science for Stability Program TU-LANGUAGE Project

SCOPE: Original papers in the theory and applications of finite state
techniques in all aspects of natural language processing including,
but not limited to: speech, phonology, morphology, tagging, parsing,
information retrieval, and discourse, are sought.

A journal special issue based on papers selected from 
accepted submissions is being planned. 

(*) to be confirmed
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PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 * Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France, Co-Chair)
 * Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey, Co-Chair)

 * Kenneth R. Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
 * Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA)
 * Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden)
 * Jerry Hobbs (SRI International, CA, USA)
 * Ronald M. Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA)
 * Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA)
 * George Kiraz (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA)
 * Andras Kornai (BBN, MA, USA)
 * Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 * Tomasz Kowaltowski (University of Campinas, Brazil)
 * Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi ( University of Campinas, Brazil)
 * Mehryar Mohri (ATT Labs Research, NJ, USA)
 * Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen,The Netherlands)
 * Richard Sproat (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA)
 * Emmanuel Roche (Teragram Corp., MA, USA)
 * Yves Schabes (Teragram Corp., MA, USA)
 * Gertran Van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
 * Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)


 IMPORTANT DATES

 JAN.16,1998 SUBMISSIONS DUE
 Mar.16,1998 Authors Notified
 Apr.17,1998 Camera Ready Copies Due

 JUNE 29 - JULY 1 WORKSHOP


SUBMISSIONS

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Please limit full paper
submissions to 12, and extended abstracts to 8, single column, single
spaced pages. Please submit postscript files by e-mail to

 fsmnlp98cs.bilkent.edu.tr

with the subject line containing the first few words of the paper
title. We ask that you send postscript files a few days in advance so
that if there are any printing problems, you may have time to submit a
hard copy version. If you prefer hard copy submissions, please send 4
copies of your manuscript

FSMNLP'98 Workshop
Department of Computer Eng. 
Bilkent University
Bilkent, ANKARA, TR-06533,TURKEY

In either case, please send a separate e-mail message to
fsmnlp98cs.bilkent.edu.tr containing the title, abstract, keywords
for the paper and the relevant contact information, with a subject
line similar to above.

OTHER ACTIVITIES 
 
The workshop will be held just after the 7th Turkish Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence that will also be held at Bilkent University
on June 24-26 1998.

If there is sufficient interest, sightseeing trips to the Museum of
Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, to the Cappadocia Region known
worldwide for its lunar landscape, fairy chimneys, underground cities,
and mystical valleys will be organized during the weekend between the
Symposium and the Workshop.

ACCOMMODATIONS 

Bilkent University campus has a 4* hotel on the premises. In
addition, a number of free lodging facilities in the University
dormitories will be provided on site for conference participants.
Numerous hotels in downtown Ankara are also available.


FURTHER INFORMATION
Information about the workshop will be available at

http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/fsmnlp98/ 

and will be updated regularly.