Ijcnlp

''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 8-13, 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

 * 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

 * June 2, 2011		Submission deadline (*** Extended ***)
 * July 22, 2011		Notification of acceptance
 * August 19, 2011		Camera-ready submission
 * October 28, 2011		Early Registration Deadline
 * November 09 - 11, 2011	Conference period

Committees

 * Host and Co-Host
 * Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)
 * National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC, Thailand)
 * Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT, Thammasat University, Thailand)
 * Chiang Mai University (CMU, Thailand)


 * Honorary Conference Chair
 * Thaweesak Koanantakool (NSTDA, Thailand)


 * General Chair
 * Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)


 * Program Co-Chairs
 * Haifeng Wang (Baidu, China)
 * David Yarowsky (John Hopkins University, USA)


 * Organisation Co-Chairs
 * Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
 * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)


 * Workshop Co-Chairs
 * Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
 * Jong Park (KAIST, Korea)
 * Noriko Kando (NII, Japan)


 * Tutorial Co-Chairs
 * Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)
 * Wei Gao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
 * Dawei Song (Robert Gordon University, UK)


 * Demonstration Co-Chairs
 * Ken Church (John Hopkins University, USA)
 * Yunqing Xia (Tsinghua University, China)


 * Publication Co-Chairs
 * Min Zhang (I2R, Singapore)
 * Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT Kharagpur, India)


 * Finance Co-Chairs
 * Vilas Wuwongse (AIT, Thailand)
 * Gary Lee (POSTECH, Korea)


 * Sponsorship Co-Chairs
 * Asanee Kawtrakul (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
 * Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)


 * Publicity Committee
 * Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)
 * Le Sun (CIPS, China)
 * Kevin Knight (USC, USA)
 * Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR,Italy)
 * Thanaruk Theeramunkong (SIIT, Thailand)


 * Secretariat
 * Thatsanee Charoenporn (NECTEC, Thailand) (Head)
 * Sudchaya Saengthong (SIIT, Thammasat University, Thailand)