Events

(A) Coming Events

• ACL-IJCNLP-2009, Singapore, August 2-7, 2009. A Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)will be held in Singapore on August 2-7, 2009. The conference will be jointly organized by ACL, AFNLP. The local organizer is COLIPS.

  The 22nd International Conference on the Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL 2009) Hong Kong, March 26-27, 2009 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), Shenyang, China (2003), and Singapore (2006). This conference will be the 22nd gathering. (Download call-for-papers)

  2nd MMIES Workshop: Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Manchester, 23 August, 2008   The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of extraction, summarization, and other information access technologies, to discuss recent approaches to multi-source and multi-lingual challenges. Approaches to coping with the idiosyncratic nature of the new Web2.0 media are especially welcome, including: mixed input, new jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, and emotional discourse.

  International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2008) Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov. 12-14, 2008 The International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2008 (IALP 2008) will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from Nov. 12, 2008 to Nov. 14, 2008, and a post-conference tour will be arranged from Nov. 29 to Nov. 30, 2008. This conference will be jointly hosted by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore and Department of Computer Science, Chiang Mai University of Thailand.

(B) Past Events

• Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2008)
  Singapore, July 14-16,2008

• Summer school on Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, June 24-29, 2008, Kharagpur, India.

• The 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-08)
  Place: Hyderabad, India
  Dates: January 7-12, 2008.

• The 2nd School of Asian ANLP for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD-2)
  Place: Bangkok, Thailand
  Dates: March 6-13, 2007

• The 21st International Conference on the Computer processing of Oriental Languages
  http://www.iccpol-06.org
  Place : Singapore
  Date : December 17 - 19, 2006

• The 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
  http://www.iscslp2006.org
  Place : Singapore
  Date : December 13 - 16, 2006

• The 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 20)
  http://paclic20.ccnu.edu.cn/
  Date: November 2 - 4, 2006
  Place : Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China

• Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD)
  August 21 - September 1, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand

• he First International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2006)
  http://ict.siit.tu.ac.th/kicss2006/
  Date: 1 - 4 August 2006
  Place: Ayutthaya Thailand

• Fifth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
  July 22-23, 2006,Sydney, Australia

• The Third International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff

• The 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing ( IJCNLP-05)

• The fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation(LREC 2004)

• The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing ( IJCNLP-04)

• The Computerm 2004 (3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology)

• First Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2004)

• Conference organized in association with the AFNLP ( Sapporo, Japan, 7-12, July 2003 )

  • 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL 2003 )

  • ACL 2003 News Letter No.6

• ANLP Meeting and Sharing Language Resources ( Tokyo, Japan, 18-19 Jan. 2001 )

(C) Awards and Subsidies

(1)The AFNLP- Nagao Fund for COLING / ACL2006 Participation Award:

The award is to support presentation of Asian NLP research efforts at COLING/ACL2006 in Sydney, Australia. The 10 awardees are:

• Jianyong Duan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Withdrawn)
• Asif Ekbal, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
• Qing Li, Information and Communications University, Korea
• Yang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Yuanhua Lv, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Abbas Malik, University of Paris 7, France
• Ryo Nagata, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan
• Smriti Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
• Deyi Xiong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Bing Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  

(2) Best Asian Language Paper at COLING/ACL 2006:

The nominees are:

• Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation
  Yang Liu, Qun Liu and Shouxun Lin

• Incorporating Speech Recognition Confidence into Discriminative Named Entity Recognition of Speech Data
  Katsuhito Sudoh, Hajime Tsukada and Hideki Isozaki

• Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution
  Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto

• Self-Organizing n-gram Model for Automatic Word Spacing
  Seong-Bae Park, Yoon-Shik Tae and Se-Young Park

Iida, Inui & Matsumoto received the Best Asian Language Paper Award, while the other 3 got meritorious mention.