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Call for Papers
Extended Submission Deadline: June 10, 2005
Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
IJCNLP-05 Workshop
October 14-15, 2005
Jeju Island, Korea
Background and Goals
Growing interest in Chinese Language Processing is leading to the
development of resources such as annotated corpora, automatic word
segmenters, part-of-speech taggers and parsers. As more resources have
become available recently, it is crucial to create a platform that
allows easy exchange of information and data and the comparison of
different approaches to various NLP tasks. The SIGHAN workshops
provide a forum where the latest research in these areas can
be shared.
The Second SIGHAN Workshop held in Sapporo with ACL2003
included the First International Chinese Word Segmentation
Bakeoff, where 12 systems from Industry and Academia from six
countries and regions were evaluated, generating significant interest.
The Third SIGHAN Workshop held in Barcelona followed on with
wide-ranging technical presentations and began planning a Fourth
SIGHAN workshop with a new bakeoff.
IJCNLP-05 in Korea will provide an opportunity to bring together again
influential as well as aspiring researchers from Hong Kong, Mainland China,
Singapore, and Taiwan and other interested Chinese language researchers
from around the world, to deliberate and interact on a range of NLP issues.
The first day of the workshop will consist of papers on all aspects
of Chinese language processing, including but not limited to:
- word segmentation,
- POS tagging,
- parsing,
- lexical semantics,
- word sense disambiguation,
- lexicon acquisition,
- corpus development,
- discourse processing,
- generation,
- cross-lingual information retrieval, and machine translation.
The second half-day of the workshop will present results from the
Second International Chinese Segmentation Bakeoff to be held in the
summer of 2005. Participants will choose from five training and
testing corpora. The bakeoff is being organized by Tom Emerson
(Basis Technology, Corp.) and Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research).
Information, including information on the task, important dates,
and submission of working papers will be made available on the SIGHAN
website.
(http://www.sighan.org/bakeoff2005/).
A SIGHAN business meeting will discuss lessons learned and future plans.
Important dates:
!!! Extended Submission Deadline:!!!
- Paper submissions due: June 10, 2005
- Notification of acceptance: July 8, 2005
- Camera-ready due: August 6, 2005
- Workshop dates: October 14-15, 2005
Submission Information
Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages
including references, figures, etc. Authors are required to follow the
guidelines of IJCNLP-05 workshop style, by hopefully using either the LaTeX
style file or the MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style
file page. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please upload your
submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript, or MS Word to the following address:
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/submit/
Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title as requested on the upload site.
If you encounter difficulties with the upload site, you may also
send the paper by email to:
sighan-submissions@cs.uchicago.edu
If you submit by email, please specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the message.
For more
information, contact the workshop organizers by using the e-mail address below.
Email: levow@cs.uchicago.edu
Registration and Local Information:
http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05
Workshop website
http://www.sighan.org/swclp4/
Program committee:
- Gina-Anne Levow - University of Chicago, USA (co-chair)
- Chu-ren Huang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair)
- Joyce Chai - Michigan State Univ, USA
- Keh-Jian Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Tom Emerson - Basis Technology Corp, U.S.A.
- Pascale Fung - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- K.L.Kwok - Queens College, USA
- Tom Lai - City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Qin Lu - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Qing Ma - Ryukoku University, Japan
- Sun Maosong - Tsinghua University, China
- Masaki Murata - Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
- Shimei Pan - IBM, USA
- Richard Sproat - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Keh-Yih Su - Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
- Benjamin Tsou - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Dekai Wu - Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong
- Nianwen Xue - Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
- Qiang Zhou - Tsinghua University, China
Contact person:
Gina-Anne Levow
University of Chicago
1100 E 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Email: levow@cs.uchicago.edu
Phone: +1-773-702-5680
Fax: +1-773-702-8487