LINGUIST List 13.3078

Sat Nov 23 2002

Confs: Language Engineering Conference

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    Message 1: Language Engineering Conference, Hyderabad, India

    Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:30:16 +0000
    From: knmuh <knmuhyahoo.com>
    Subject: Language Engineering Conference, Hyderabad, India


    Language Engineering Conference

    Short Title: LEC-2002 Location: Hyderabad, INDIA Date: 13-Dec-2002 - 15-Dec-2002 Web Site: http://www.LanguageTechnologies.ac.in/lec2002.html Contact Person: Narayana Murthy Meeting Email: knmuhyahoo.com Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    LEC-2002 is a high quality intenational conference on Language Engineering featuring technical paper presentations, tutorials and product demos/exhibitions. A special session on Testing, Evaluation and Benchmarking of Language Technology Products and Services is included.

    We are glad to announce LEC-2002, a high quality International Conference on Language Engineering, being held at Hyderabad during 13th to 15th December 2002. LEC-2002 will feature experts from many countries and will include tutorials, technical presentations, a panel discussion involving academia, industry as well as government, and product demonstrations and exhibitions. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press.

    See: http://www.LanguageTechnologies.ac.in/lec2002.html

    Language Engineering:

    As you know Language engineering is a multi-disciplinary area involving computer science, logic, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, and statistics. Language Engineering includes a variety of topics of great current interest to both academics and industry including Automatic Categorization, Automatic Summarization, Information Extraction and Information Retrieval from texts and rich media documents, Optical Character Recognition, Speech Synthesis and Recognition, Automatic Translation, Text and Web Mining, Multi-lingual support at system and application levels etc. With increasing globalization and availability of vast amounts of useful information resources, Language Engineering is becoming very important to anybody who has a role in creation, dissemination or use of information.

    Organizers:

    LEC-2002 is organized jointly by the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, and Society for Computer Applications in Indian Languages.

    Department of Computer and Information Sciences:

    The Department of Computer and Information Sciences offers high quality post-graduate teaching and research progammes (MCA, MTech, PhD) in all major areas of Computer Sciences, Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Banking Technology and Information Security. Current research areas include Computer Vision, Parallel Algorithms, Combinatorial Algorithms, Geographical Information Systems, Neural Computing, Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering, Text Processing, Machine Learning, Speech Processing, Document Analysis, Data Bases, Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed AI, Decision Support Systems Software Engineering, Mobile Computing etc.

    The Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, has established itself as a premier centre of Research and Development in Language Engineering. The department is currently a Resource Centre for Indian Language Technologies under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India.

    See: http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/smcis/dcis/dcis.htm

    Society for Computer Applications in Indian Languages (SCIL):

    SCIL is a voluntary organization for promoting Computer Applications in Indian Languages.

    See: http://www.LanguageTechnologies.ac.in/scil/scil.html

    Tutorials:

    The conference will include tutorials on various topics in language engineering on the first day. The tutorials are open to all â�Euro§' no registration fee will be charged. However, you must register before 6th December 2002.

    Exhibition and Product Demonstrations:

    Exhibitions and demonstrations of Language Technology products and services are planned. Interested companies may kindly contact the organizers and book the stalls at the earliest but not later than 30th November 2002.

    Panel Discussion:

    The Conference will include a panel discussion/open house where participants from academia, industry, government and end users will discuss various issues relating to application and dissemination of language technology to meet the needs of the society.

    Registration:

    Registration Fee:

    Students: Rs. 250/- Academic Institutions: Rs. 1000/- All Others: Rs. 3000/-

    Foreign Participants: USD 100

    Registration form is available on the website.

    University of Hyderabad:

    University of Hyderabad is a premier institute of post-graduate teaching and research, established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 1974 as a Central University. Over the years, University of Hyderabad has emerged as a top ranking institute of higher education and research in India.

    See: http://www.uohyd.ernet.in

    Hyderabad is the capital of Andhra Pradesh, a progressive state in the southern part of India. Hyderabad has salubrious climate and is well connected by air, rail and road.

    See: http://www.fullhyderabad.com

    Contact:

    LEC-2002 Secretariat Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions, Room No. M214, Science Complex, University of Hyderabad Hyderabad - 500 046 INDIA

    email: knmuhyahoo.com, knmcsuohyd.ernet.in Web: http://www.LanguageTechnologies.ac.in/lec2002.html Phone: 040-3010 500 Extension 4025