IJCNLP 2011 - The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011)

The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011)
November 7-13, 2011
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 7-13, 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IJCNLP 2011 invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of language processing and computational linguistics,including, but not limited to: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
Early of June, 2011 Submission deadline
Mid of July, 2011 Notification of acceptance
End of August, 2011 Camera-ready submission
November 09-11, 2011 Conference period
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; kfwong[at]se.cuhk.edu.hk)
Program Co-Chair
Haifeng Wang (Beidu; wanghaifeng[at]baidu.com )
David Yarowsky (John Hopkins University; yarowsky[at]cs.jhu.edu)
Poster Co-Chair
Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea; park[at]cs.kaist.ac.kr)
Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University, Scotland; d.song[at]rgu.ac.uk)
Tutorial Co-Chair
INUI Kentaro (Tohoku University, Japan; inui[at]ecei.tohoku.ac.jp)
Demo Co-chair
Yunqing Xia (Tsinghua U, China; yqxia[at]tsinghua.edu.cn)
Ken Church ( John Hopkins Uni, USA; Kenneth.Church[at]jhu.edu)
Industrial Chair
David Lee (Tencent, China)
Sponsorship Chair
Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan; nakaiwa[at]cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)
Publication Co-Chair:
Min Zhang (I2R, Singapore; mzhang[at]i2r.a-star.edu.sg)
Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT, Kharagpur; sudeshna[at]cse.iitkgp.ernet.in)
Organisation Chair:
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (INECTEC, Thailand; virach[at]tcllab.org)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; isahara[at]nict.go.jp)
Webmaster:
Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Thailand; thanaruk[at]siit.tu.ac.th)
Swit Phuvipadawat (TIT, Japan; jazripper[at]gmail.com)
Publicity Chairs:
Sun Le (CIPS, China, Asia; lesunle[at]gmail.com)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR,Italy, EU; glottolo[at]ilc.cnr.it)
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: info[at]ijcnlp2011.org