NLPA 2012 - The International Special Session on Natural Language Processing and its Applications

Special Session 6: Natural Language Processing and its Applications
[Session Chairs]:Hisham Al-Mubaid (hisham-AT-uhcl.edu), Ping Chen (chenp-AT-uhd.edu)
[Scope]: The amount of information represented by natural languages is vast and increasing rapidly as advances in modern communication significantly improve how human society create, share, and process information. This special session will reflect the recent progress in Natural Language Processing and provide a platform for researchers in this field to exchange ideas and further widen its applications.
Session topics include but not limited to the following:
Information extraction
Information retrieval
Biomedical text mining
Clinical record management
Text categorization
Document clustering
Word sense disambiguation
Automatic text summarization
Machine translation
Parsing and Part-of-speech tagging
Coreference resolution
Discourse analysis
Named entity recognition
Natural language generation
Natural language understanding
Question answering
Relationship extraction
Sentiment analysis
Speech recognition
Speech segmentation
Topic segmentation and recognition
Word segmentation
Word sense disambiguation
Speech processing