Call for Papers
The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011)
November 8-13, 2011
Shangri-La Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.ijcnlp2011.org
The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 8-13, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. IJCNLP 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.
Topics
IJCNLP 2011 invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of language processing and computational linguistics,including, but not limited to:
Phonology/morphology, tagging and chunking, and word segmentation
Grammar induction and development
Parsing algorithms and implementations
Mathematical linguistics and grammatical formalisms
Lexical and ontological semantics
Formal semantics and logic
Word sense disambiguation
Semantic role labeling
Textual entailment and paraphrasing
Discourse, dialogue, and pragmatics
Language generation
Summarization
Machine translation
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Question answering
Text mining and natural language processing applications
NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
Spoken language processing
Speech recognition and synthesis
Spoken language understanding and generation
Language modeling for spoken language
Multimodal representations and processing
Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
Speech translation
Statistical and machine learning methods
Language modeling for text processing
Lexicon and ontology development
Treebank and corpus development
Evaluation methods and user studies
Science of annotation
Important Dates
May 20, 2011 Submission deadline
July 22, 2011 Notification of acceptance
August 19, 2011 Camera-ready submission
October 28, 2011 Early Registration Deadline
November 09 - 11, 2011 Conference period
Organizing Committee
Honorary Conference Chair
Thaweesak Koanantakool (NSTDA, Thailand)
General Chair
Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Program Co-Chairs
Haifeng Wang (Baidu, China)
David Yarowsky (John Hopkins University, USA)
Organisation Co-Chairs
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
Jong Park (KAIST, Korea)
Noriko Kando (NII, Japan)
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)
Wei Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University, UK)
Demonstration Co-Chairs
Ken Church (John Hopkins University, USA)
Yunqing Xia (Tsinghua University, China)
Publication Co-Chairs
Min Zhang (I2R, Singapore)
Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Finance Co-Chairs
Vilas Wuwongse (AIT, Thailand)
Gary Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Asanee Kawtrakul (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)
Publicity Committee
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Le Sun (CIPS, China)
Kevin Knight (USC, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR,Italy)
Webmasters
Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Thailand)
Swit Phuvipadawat (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Wirat Chinnan, (SIIT, Thailand)
Local Organizers
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC, Thailand)
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University
Chiang Mai University (CMU, Thailand)
More Information
Any question can be sent to process, e-mail: pc[at]ijcnlp2011.org