¡°Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead¡±
21st
International Conference on
Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL2006)
Hosted by
Chinese and Oriental Languages Computer Society (COLCS)
Organized by
Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), Singapore
Supported by
Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Magaement (SEEM),
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
INTRODUCTION
The International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages
(ICCPOL) series is a regular international conference supported by the Chinese
and Oriental Languages Society (COLCS), an international society founded in
1975.
Recent ICCPOLs have been held in Hong Kong (1997), Tokushima, Japan (1999), Seoul, Korea (2001) and Shenyang, China (2003). The 2006 Conference will be the 21st gathering.
The conference serves as an international forum for linguists, computer scientists, information engineers and system users with interests in the computer processing and understanding of Oriental languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Cross- and multilingual information processing
Text input methods
Document analysis and character recognition
Natural language processing
Machine translation
Information retrieval and extraction
Question Answering
Text Summarization
Multilingual computing
Speech recognition and synthesis
Language resources and evaluation
Web-based applications
E-commerce, education and entertainment
High quality papers presenting innovative ideas, design principles, theoretical analysis, implementation techniques, programming concepts, and experimental results are solicited.
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
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We anticipate that the proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. All submissions must therefore be formatted in accordance with the standard Springer style sheets ([LaTeX][Microsoft Word]) and should be no more than 8 pages in length. Submissions should be in PDF format.
Authors should specify a preference for ORAL or POSTER presentation.
Submission
details will be provided on the conference website.
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For more information about paper submission, please contact Richard Sproat (rws@uiuc.edu) or Yuji Matsumoto (matsu@is.nist.ac.jp).
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Deadline |
May 31, 2006. |
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Notification of Acceptance |
July 15, 2006. |
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Final Manuscript Due |
August 30, 2006. |
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Conference Dates |
December 17-19, 2006. |
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Co-Founder, COLCS)
Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, China (President, AFNLP)
Jun¡¯ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan (President, ACL)
Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Conference Co-Chair
Jong-Hyeok Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Kim-Teng Lua, COLIPS, Singapore
Program Co-Chairs
Yuji Matsumoto,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Organizing Committee
Minghui Dong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (General Secretary)
Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (Publication Co-chair)
Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (Publication Co-chair)
Chris Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (Finance Co-chair)
Hui Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Finance Co-chair)
Masayuki Asahara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
David Chiang, ISI, USA
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Susan Converse, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Julia Hockenmaier, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Martin Jansche, Columbia University, USA
Donghong Ji, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Genichiro Kikui, ATR, Japan
Sadao Kurohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kui-Lam Kwok, City University of New York, USA
Olivia Oi Yee Kwong, City University of Hong Kong, China
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Chicago, USA
Roger Levy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Mu Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Wenjie Li, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, China
Chin-Yew Lin, ISI, USA
Qin Lu, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, China
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Tatsunori Mori, Yokohama National University, Japan
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University, Turkey
Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, USA
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
Laurent Romary, LORIA, France
Tetsuya Sakai, Toshiba, Japan
Rajeev Sangal, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Jungyun Seo, Sogang University, Korea
Dawei Song, Open University, UK
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thai Computational Linguistics Lab., Thailand
Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, University of Tokyo, Japan
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, NICT, Japan
Takehito Utsuro, Kyoto University, Japan
Patrick Wang, Northeastern University, USA
Fei Xia, University of Washington, USA
Yunqing Xia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Bo Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jie Xu, National University of Singapore, Singapore & Henan University, China
Nianwen (Bert) Xue, University of Colorado, USA
Tianshun Yao, Northeastern University, China
Zaharin Yusoff, Malaysian Institute of Micro-Electronics, Malaysia
Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Guodong Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China