JapTAL 2012 - 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

The conference(JapTAL 2012) will take place in the city of Kanazawa, a leading tourist city where 7 million tourists visit every year. It was a great castle town ruled by an influential leader from the 17th century to the second half of the 19th century. Kanazawa has not suffered from any war devastation or big natural disaster up to now. Therefore, Kanazawa maintains rows of historical houses and inherits traditional handicrafts and traditional performing arts.
JapTAL is the eighth in the series of the TAL conferences, following IceTAL 2010 (Reykjavik, Iceland), GoTAL 2008 (Gothenburg, Sweden), FinTAL 2006 (Turku, Finland), EsTAL 2004 (Alicante, Spain), PorTAL 2002 (Faro, Portugal), VexTAL 1999 (Venice, Italy) and FracTAL 1997 (Besancon, France).
The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
The conference will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and theory of natural language processing and related areas. It will provide excellent opportunities for the presentation of interesting new research results and discussion about them, leading to knowledge transfer and the generation of new ideas.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Publishers as a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series
The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language and speech processing, including, but not limited to:
phonetics, phonology, and morphology
speech recognition and speech synthesis
word segmentation, tagging, and chunking
syntax, parsing, and grammar formalisms
lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation
pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue
lexicon, lexical databases, and ontologies
generation and summarization
information retrieval, question answering, and information extraction
machine translation, translation aids, and multilingual systems
dialogue systems and multimodal systems
language resources and tools
linguistic, psychological, and mathematical models of language
corpus linguistics
corpus-based language modeling
language learning and therapy
simulation and visualization
knowledge acquisition and representation
text and speech interfaces
text and speech classification
systems evaluation