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(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

(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  • Jianyong Duan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Withdrawn)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.

 

 
 
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July 19, 2008