Call for Papers

International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2008 (IALP 2008)
Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov. 12-14, 2008
http://www.colips.org/conference/ialp2008

International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2008 (IALP 2008) will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from Nov. 12-14, 2008. This conference will be jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore and Department of Computer Science, Chiang Mai University of Thailand. A post-conference tour will be arranged from Nov. 15-16, 2008.

Chiang Mai is the old capital city of the Lanna Kingdom with a history of more than 700 years. It is a city of distinct beauty that has its own cultural heritage. The city is regarded as something of a national Shangri-La, thanks to its distinctive festivals, historic temples, arresting scenic beauty, temperate fruits and a crisp, invigorating cool season climate. Along with its numerous ancient temples and building, Chiang Mai is also famous for its handicrafts. Nature has made it stand out, thanks to the majestic mountains and valleys and its beautiful scenery: hills, mountain streams, lakes, field, waterfalls, caves, hill tribe villages, orchid, butterfly farms, elephant camps & trekking tours and river rafting expeditions. It would be great experience that we discuss asian languages in a city with rich asian culture.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research in all aspects of Asian Language Research and Asian language Information processing, including, but not limited to:

• input and output of large character sets
• typesetting and font designs
• Asian character encoding and compression
• voice input and output, speech recognition and synthesis
• phonology and morphology
• grammars and syntax, syntactical analysis, word segmentation, parsing and tagging
• lexical semantics, word sense, Wordnets.
• text analysis, text understanding, summarization and generation
• text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
• discourse and dialogue, interactive voice system, questions and answers
• machine translation and multilingual processing
• natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
• language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing
• machine learning for natural language
• linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language computational psycholinguistics
• Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning
• special hardware and software for Asian language computing
• special topics on language research and information processing 

PAPER SUBMISSION

The guidelines for paper submission are as the following:

• The paper should be written in English.
• The maximum length of a paper is 7 A4-sized pages, 11pt throughout.
• The paper should be in PDF format.
• Please submit two copies of the paper, one copy is with author information and the other is anonymous.
• Please submit via the online paper submission system.

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings to be published by COLIPS with an official ISBN. Authors with accepted papers are to be invited to revise their papers, and re-submit to a separate post-conference proceedings, which is expected to be indexed by ISTP.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline	July 31, 2008
Notification of acceptance	Sep. 10, 2008
Final manuscript due	Sep. 30, 2008
Earlybird registration due	Sep. 30, 2008
Normal registration due	Nov. 1, 2008
Conference date	Nov. 12-14, 2008
Post-conference tour	Nov. 15-16, 2008

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Mongkon Rayanakorn	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Kim-Teng Lua	Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society(COLIPS), Singapore
PROGAM CO-CHAIRS
Donghong Ji	Wuhan University, China
Asanee Kawtrakul	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Key-Sun Choi	Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Minghui Dong	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Darunee Smavatkul	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Guohong Fu	Heilongjiang University, China
Yi Guan	Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Jun He	University of Wales, UK
Tingting He	Huazhong Normal University, China
Xuanjing Huang	Fudan University, China
Jeerayuth Chaijaruwanich	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Jean-Pierre Chevallet	IPAL-CNRS, France
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii	Tokyo University, Japan
Jong-Hyeok Lee	Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Lekha Chaisorn	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Haizhou Li	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Wenjie Li	Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Yaoyong Li	Sheffield University, UK
Qun Liu	Institute of Computing, China
Ting Liu	Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Bin Ma	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Qing Ma	Ryukoku University, Japan
Olivia Kwong	City University of Hong Kong, China
Rattasit Sukahut	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Le Sun	Institute of Software, China
Virach Sornlertlamvanich	National Electronics & Computer Technology Center, Thailand.
Houfeng Wang	Peking University, China
Bin Wang	Institute of Computing, China
Haifeng Wang	Toshiba Research Center, China
Hui Wang	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Jie Xu	Huazhong Normal University, China
Erhong Yang	Beijing University of Language and Culture, China
Hao Yu	Fujitsu Research Center, China
Yulin Yuan	Peking University, China
Min Zhang	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Quan Zhang	Institute for Acoustic, China
Jun Zhao	Institute of Automation, China
Guodong Zhou	Suzhou University, China
Qiang Zhou	Tsinghua University, China
Jingbo Zhu	North East University, China
Chengqing Zong	Institute of Automation, China
ORGANIZING CHAIRS
Jeerayuth Chaijaruwanich	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Darunee Smavatkul	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Watcharee Jumpamule	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Samerkae Somhom	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Wijak Srisajjalertwaja	Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Tse-Min Lua(Treasurer)	COLIPS, Singapore
Minghui Dong (Secretary)	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Min Zhang	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Bin Ma	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Eugene Koh Chin Wei	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

MORE INFORMATION

To get other details and the latest information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.colips.org/conference/ialp2008.