Events

(A) Coming Events of AFNLP

Invited Session on Human Language Processing - International Conference on Social Robotics(ICSR) 2009 Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009 The ICSR conference will be held at the Hotel Ramada (Tentatively) in Incheon, the third largest city of Korea. Human language plays a pivotal role in human robot interaction. The objective of this invited session is to bring together researchers in the field of speech and dialogue processing, natural language processing, human-robot interaction, and human-factor analysis in relation to social robotics. This special session invites contributions that focus on theory and technology that bring robots to human life.

PACLING 2009 (Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics) Sapporo, Japan, September 1-4, 2009 PACLING will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange demonstrating openness towards original, fresh, and/or useful research including those which might sometimes fall outside current dominant "schools of thought", and technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is smaller than ACL, COLING, or IJCNLP, but opens the door to the Global as well as the Pacific.

ALTA 2009 (The Seventh Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop) Sydney, Australia, Dec 3-4, 2009 This year, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will be held as part of the HCSNet Summerfest 2009 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of December 2009. This event will be the seventh annual installment of the ALTA Workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s.

The 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation Hong Kong, Dec 3-5, 2009 The PACLIC series of conferences emphasizes the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language, and provides a forum for researchers in different fields of language study in the Pacific-Asia region to meet, to inspire and to be inspired. PACLIC conferences used to rotate among Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, and occasionally took place in other cities in the region. PACLIC 23 is organized by the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and the Language Information Sciences Research Centre of the City University of Hong Kong, under the auspices of the PACLIC Steering Committee.

International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) 2009 Singapore, Dec 7-9, 2009 The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series of conference with unique focus on Asian Language Processing. The conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspect of Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in different fields of language study all over the world to meet. The first meeting of IALP was hold in Singapore in 1986 and was called ICCC (International Conference on Chinese Computing). This meeting initiated the studies of Chinese and oriental languages processing in Singapore and resulted in the formation of COLIPS in Singapore in 1988, and later, the publication of the journal titled Journal of Chinese Language and Computing since 1991. Last year, IALP 2008 was held in Chiang Mai University, Thailand and the proceedings was indexed by ISTP/ISI. The IALP 2009 will be held in Singapore and co-organized by COLIPS and IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter. The proceedings had been accepted by IEEE CPS (Conference Publication Services) for publication. IEEE CPS will submit it for indexing in EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on Diskette (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps)

The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010) Beijing, China, August 23 - 27, 2010 The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), to be held in Beijing, China on August 23-27th, 2010. We look forward to welcoming you to Beijing, not only the capital of China, but also a famous city of fantastic history and culture. COLING will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. More details will be available closer to the April 19, 2010 submission deadline. ( Click to download the first call-for-papers)

(B) Past Events of AFNLP

• 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) was held in Singapore on August 2-7, 2009. The conference was jointly organized by ACL, AFNLP. The local organizer was 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 was the 22nd gathering.

• 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) was 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.

• 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.

(D) Other Events