MALINDO 2008

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International MALINDO Workshop (MALINDO2008)

12-13 June 2008

Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

http://utmk.cs.usm.my/mcm/index.php/MALINDO2008/

AIM

A considerable amount of research has been done on the processing of Indonesian and Malaysian languages offering a variety of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources (dictionaries, thesauri, monolingual/parallel corpora, etc.), tools (morphological analysers/generators, stemmers, spelling checkers, syntactic parsers, etc.) and applications (machine translation, information extraction, information retrieval systems,etc.). All these valuable language resources, tools, and services are most of the time ignored by the public and often not known by the researchers and students working on these languages. This second MALINDO Workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, representing different perspectives, to share and to exchange their ideas on the processing of Indonesian and Malaysian languages. Thus, the organisers of the workshop wants to highlight the effort and promising works done on the processing of Indonesian and Malaysian languages in order to attract more students to the CL and NLP fields and also to let all the NLP communities in this World to be aware of their existence.

Prospective authors are invited to submit unpublished papers on any topic that is of interest to the processing of Malaysian and Indonesian languages and its broad applications, for presentation at the workshop and publication in the proceedings.

The workshop will be of interest to anyone working on the processing - computational and theoretical point of view - of Indonesian and Malaysian languages.

The MALINDO Workshop is organised by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM, Penang, Malaysia), Universitas Indonesia (UI, Jakarta, Indonesia), and National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore). The workshop is hosted by the Multimedia University (MMU, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of the papers are requested to be in all areas related to the processing - computational and theoretical point of view - of Malaysian and Indonesian languages.

and representation: dictionaries, thesauri, terminology, lexicons, written and spoken corpora, grammars, ontology
 * Language resources development, acquisition, annotation,

morphological analyser, stemmer, lemmatiser, part of speech tagger, chunker, syntactic parser, word sense disambiguator, discourse processing, text and speech alignment, text and speech segmentation, term extraction and recognition, named entity extraction,
 * CL and NLP tools and techniques: spelling/grammatical/style checkers,

information retrieval, information extraction, text summarisation, term extraction, natural language generation, question translation aids, information retrieval, information extraction, text summarization, term extraction, natural language generation, question answering, document categorization, language identification, speech recognition, speech synthesis, character recognition, e-learning,
 * CL and NLP applications: machine translation and translation aids,

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due:            24 March, 2008 Notification of acceptance:      24 April, 2008 Final version due for Proceedings: 5 May, 2008 Registration fee due:            12 May, 2008 Workshop dates:                  12-13 June, 2008

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

- Upload your submission in PDF or MSWord format at       http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=malindo2008

- Submission should be at most 8000 words. We suggest to authors to use IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:

MSWord: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.doc

Latex: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Honorary Workshop Chair: Zaharin Yusoff, Multimedia University

Workshop Chair: Tang Enya Kong, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Programme Co-chairs: Mirna Adriani, Universitas Indonesia Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore

Preliminary Programme Committee: Adi Budiwiyanto, Pusat Bahasa, Indonesia Alvin Yeo, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Arry Akhmad Arman, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Bali Ranaivo-Malanon, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia David Gil, Max Planck Institute, Germany Didier Schwab, University of Montpellier, France Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Gilles Serasset, University Joseph-Fourier, France Hammam Riza, Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi, Indonesia Hisar M. Manurung, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Kan Min Yen, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mahani Aljunied, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Mathieu Lafourcade, University of Montpellier, France Ng Hwee Tou, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rila Mandala, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Tang Enya Kong, Univeristi Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Yves Lepage, University of Caen, France Zainal A. Hasibuan, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

Local Organisation Chair: Bali Ranaivo-Malanon, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Local Organisers: Norliza Hani Md. Ghazali, Universiti Sains Malaysia Nour Azimah Zulkapli, Universiti Sains Malaysia Sabrina Tiun Abdullah, Universiti Sains Malaysia Siti Khaotijah Mohammad, Universiti Sains Malaysia Rohana Omar, Universiti Sains Malaysia Tan Ewe Hoe, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Webmasters: Dennis Wong Chin Phang, Universiti Sains Malaysia Jasy Liew Suet Yan, Universiti Sains Malaysia

CONTACT

Send your questions and queries to the organisers at malindo2@cs.usm.my.

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