Events

(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 and COLIPS.

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• Jianyong Duan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Withdrawn)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

(C) Past Events

• 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 )