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Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Subject: ICON-2014: 11th Intl Conf on Natural Language Processing -- First
Call for Papers
To:
ICON-2014: ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
Goa University, Goa, India
December 18-21, 2014
Organized by
NLP Association, India
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Goa University, Goa
Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages, CIIL, Mysore
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The Eleventh International Conference on Natural Language Processing
(ICON-2014) will be held at Goa University, Goa, India during December
18-21, 2014. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting
interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing
in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 19-20 2014. This
will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials/workshops on
December 18, 2014 and post conference tutorials/workshops on December 21,
2014.
1. TOPICS:
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all
aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on Indian
languages, issues, and applications relevant to India. The areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:
Morphology Parsing
PhonologyWord Sense Disambiguation
Syntax Machine Translation
SemanticsInformation Retrieval
DiscourseText Summarization
Pragmatics Question Answering
Statistical Methods Dialog Systems
Knowledge-based Methods Performance Evaluation
Annotated CorporaSpeech Corpora
Lexical ResourcesSpeech Recognition
Ontology Speech Synthesis
POS Tagging
The authors have to submit papers under any of the areas mentioned above
and must mark the topic of their paper at the time of submission.
1.1 The conference will also accept papers for the following special
tracks:
- Natural Language Software Engineering
- Linguistic Engineering
1.2 Position Papers
A paper which expresses an opinion or point of view affecting
the field.
2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:
Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted on the
online portal at www.iiit.ac.in/icon2014. Papers should include an abstract
of about 100-200 words. Please see the style file at
www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/
BLIND REVIEW:
Papers in electronic form in the PDF format, anonymous for blind review,
should be submitted. Kindly ensure that authors' names and affiliations are
given only on a separate cover sheet. If your paper contains text of
languages other than English, please attach relevant font files along with
your submission.
3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS:
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops.
Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal
should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical
outline of the content, description of the proposers and their
qualifications relating to the tutorial content.
Workshops on Linguistic aspects of South Asian Languages are also welcome.
Send tutorial/Workshop proposals to the ICON-2014 Secretariat. For further
information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2014
Secretariat.
4. NLP TOOLS CONTEST ON STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION IN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Machine translation (MT) is the process of encoding the syntactic and
semantic information of a source language text into a target language. In
past two decades, MT has shown very promising results particularly using
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) especially for English and other
European Languages. However, its effectiveness in translating sentences
within Indian Languages (IL) and between English and Indian languages needs
to be explored further.
The NLP tool contest in ICON 2014 aims to collectively explore the
effectiveness of SMT while translating within ILs and between English and
ILs.
CONTEST:
In the contest, training data will be provided to the contestants. It will
consist of parallel corpus for different ILs and English. The contestants
will have to train their systems on the data. A development corpus will
also be provided to refine and improve their system. The final contest will
be held on November, 2014 with the test data. A workshop will be held as a
part of ICON to allow the short listed candidates to present their
techniques and results. The detail of the language pair will be announced
shortly. We will test
