WSSANLP 2013 - 4th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP)

The main motive behind the organization of South and Southeast Asian Natural Languages Processing workshops (WSSANLP) is to bring together the community working on the South and Southeast Asian languages covering all aspects of natural language processing, computational linguistics and linguistics such as development of computational resources, morphology, syntax, semantics and machine translation. This is a long term commitment and goal. WSSANLP is an annual event collocated with one of the major Computational Linguistics conferences and focusing on NLP issues of South and Southeast Asian languages. We have successfully organized the 1st Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP at COLING 2010 in Beijing, China, 2nd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP at IJCNLP 2011 in Chian Mai, Thailand and 3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP at COLING 2012 in Mumbai, India. The 4th WSSANLP has been accepted as a collocated event in the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013) October 14 - 19, 2013 at Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan. This conference is organized by Asian Fedration of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP).
Topic of Interest
WSSANLP 2012 solicits papers, posters and demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics related to South and Southeast Asian languages, including, but not limited to:
Underresourced languages
Morphology & POS tagging
The complexity of word level processing
Frameworks for morphological processing
Universal morphotactic phenomena across South and Southeast Asian languages
Lexicon and Rule-basis for morphological analysis
New formalisms, or computational treatments of existing linguistic formalisms for the said languages
Probabilistic models and machine learning for morphology and segmentation
Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, and diachronic data
Algorithms, including finite-state methods
Algorithms and methods for automatic development of morphological analysis from the corpus
Generic morphological analyzer for South and Southeast Asian Languages
Communication of morpho-tactics with its neighboring layers in the linguistic process (i.e. Morpho-syntactics and Morpho-phonemics) for the said languages
Usability or extensibility of existing tools like KIMMO, XFST, ATEF, etc. for the development of morphological analyzer for South and Southeast Asian languages
Tools and resources
Parsing
Resources and annotation
Empirical machine translation
Expert or hybrid machine translation
Information retrieval
Named Entity recognition
Word Sense Disambiguation
Speech recognition and synthesis
Software internationalization & localization