Call for Papers

International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2010
Harbin, Dec 28-30, 2010
http://www.colips.org/conference/ialp2010

The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series of conferences with unique focus on Asian Language Processing. The conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspects of Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in the different fields of language study all over the world to meet. The first meeting of the series was held in Singapore in 1986 and was called the International Conference on Chinese Computing (ICCC) then. This meeting initiated the study of Chinese and oriental languages processing in Singapore and resulted in the formation of COLIPS in Singapore in 1988, as well as the publication of the journal "Journal of Chinese Language and Computing" in 1991, which is known as " International Journal on Asian Language Processing" today.

IALP 2008 was held in Chiang Mai University, Thailand and the proceedings were indexed by ISTP/ISI. Last year's IALP 2009 was held in Singapore and was co-organized by COLIPS and IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter. The proceedings were published by CPS (Conference Publication Services) and submitted for indexing in EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on Diskette.

International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2010 (IALP 2010) will be held in Harbin, China on Dec 28-30, 2010. This conference will be jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore, IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, and Heilongjiang Institute of Technology (HIT) of China. The conference is also sponsored by National Science Foundation of China. We will continue to work with CPS to publish the conference proceesings. They will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library and submitted for indexing in INSPEC, EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on Diskette.

As one of biggest cities in the northeast of Asia, Harbin is well known as the “pearl under the swan neck” for its unforgettable scenery especially for her wonderful ice lanterns. Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is one of the most significant winter festivals in the world. The festival hosts many events, such as fireworks display, winter swimming, and ice sculpture competition, etc. All these events have attracted numerous snow enthusiasts from around the world to visit Harbin every year. 

Located in this beautiful and famous northern city, Heilongjiang Institute of Technology (HIT) is committed to the practice and exploration of application-oriented training for students. HIT has been listed as the pioneer among application-oriented universities of the Heilongjiang Province, and is now entering as one of the pioneer universities in the "Excellence Engineer Training Program" granted by the state Ministry of Education.

We invite you to participate in this conference and experience the beauty of the winter in the hosting city.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research in all aspects of Asian Language Processing, including, but not limited to:

• Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages
• Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages
• Asian character encoding and compression
• Multimodal representations and processing
• Voice input and output
• Phonology and morphology
• Lexical semantics and word sense
• Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse
• Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing
• Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing
• Discourse analysis
• Language, linguistic and speech resource development
• Evaluation methods and user studies
• Machine learning for natural language
• Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation
• Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
• Text entailment and paraphrasing
• Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering
• Machine translation and multilingual processing
• Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics
• Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing
• Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation
• Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
• Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning
• NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
• NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
• Special hardware and software for Asian language computing

PAPER SUBMISSION

As the reviewing will be blind, manuscripts must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Authors should ensure that their identities are not revealed in any way in the paper. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

LANGUAGES

The official language of the conference is English. However, the conference will accept papers written in Chinese and arrange sessions in which the presentation will be delivered in Mandarin. Paper submmisions in Chinese must have an English title and abstract, and follow the same paper format as English ones. Both Chinese and English papers will be reviewed with the same standard and included into conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline	Aug 21, 2010
Notification of acceptance	Sep. 15, 2010
Final manuscript due	Sep. 20, 2010
Earlybird registration due	Sep. 20, 2010
Conference date	Dec. 28-30, 2010

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Zhaosheng Wei	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Min Zhang	Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Hongtian Zhang	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Le Sun	Chinese Infomation Processing Society of China
Jo Yew Tham	IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter
Kim-Teng Lua	COLIPS
Haizhou Li	Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS
Sheng Li	Harbin Institute of Technology
Qiaoming Zhu	Suzhou University
PROGAM CO-CHAIRS
Guodong Zhou	Soo Chow University
Minghui Dong	Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS
ORGANIZING CO-CHAIRS
Haoliang Qi	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Jo Yew Tham	IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Gulila Altenbek	Xinjiang University
Yude Bi	Luoyang University of Foreign Languages
Rangjia Cai	Qinghai Normal University
Hoang-Tru Cao	University of Technologies, VNU-HCM
Ling Cen	Institute for Infocomm Research
Tao-Hsing Chang	National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences
Boxing Chen	NRC Institute for Information Technology
Hsin-Hsi Chen	National Taiwan University
Keh-Jiann Chen	Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan
Chin-Chuan Cheng	National Taiwan Normal University
Key-Sun Choi	Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dien Dinh	University of Sciences, VNU-HCM
Xuan-Quang Do	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Minghui Dong	Institute for Infocomm Research
Xiangyu Duan	Insitute for Infocomm Research
Guohong Fu	Heilongjiang University
Hong Gao	Nanyang Technological University
Yi Guan	Harbin Institute of Technology
Lin He	Wuhan University
Bao-Quoc Ho	University of Sciences, VNU-HCM
Fuhui Hsieh	Tatung University
Gai-Tai Huang	Takming University of Science and Technology
Xuanjing Huang	Fudan University
Shuichi Itahashi	National Institute of Informatics
Yaohong Jin	Institute of Acoustics Chinese Academy of Sciences
Olivia Kwong	City University of Hong Kong
Tom Lai	City University of Hong Kong
Jun Lang	Institute for Infocomm Research
Siu Wa Lee	Institute for Infocomm Research
Guohua Lei	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Ru Li	Shanxi University
Yujia Li	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hongfei Lin	Dalian University of Technology
Chao-Lin Liu	National Chengchi University
Donghong Liu	Central China Normal University
Qun Liu	Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuanchao Liu	Harbin Institute of Technology
Bingquan Liu	Harbin Institute of Technology
Wai Kit Lo	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xugang Lu	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Kim-Teng Lua	Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society
Chi-Mai Luong	Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technology
Yajuan Lv	Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shaoping Ma	Tsinghua University
Bin Ma	Institute for Infocomm Research
Bali Malançon	Multimedia University, Malaysia
Yao Meng	Fujitsu R&D Center Co., LTD.
Phuong-Thai Nguyen	University of Engineering and Technology
Jianyun Nie	University of Montreal Canada
Yongkyoon No	Chungnam National University.
Fuchun Peng	Microsoft
Bhaskararao Peri	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Thi-Tuoi Phan	University of Technologies, VNU-HCM
Haoliang Qi	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Hammam Riza	Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology
Sakriani Sakti	Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Zhifang Sui	Peking University
Jun Sun	National University of Singapore
Le Sun	Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianhua Tao	Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sornlertlamvanich Virach	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Hai-Quan Vu	University of Sciences, VNU-HCM
Thuy Vu	Institute for Infocomm Research
Haifeng Wang	Baidu
Hsin-Min Wang	Academia Sinica
Hui Wang	National University of Singapore
Chung-Hsien Wu	National Cheng Kung University
Yan Wu	Harbin Institute of Technology
Yunfang Wu	Peking University
Chai Wutiwiwatchai	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Deyi Xiong	Institute for Infocomm Research
Zhimin Xu	Harbin Institute of Technology
Yongzeng Xue	Harbin Institute of Technology
Muyun Yang	Harbin Institute of Technology
Tianfang Yao	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hao Yu	Fujitsu R&D Center CO. LTD (China)
Hui Zhang	Information Sciences Institute, USC
Quan Zhang	Institute of Acoustic, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Min Zhang	Institute for Infocomm Research
Jun Zhao	Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tiejun Zhao	Harbin Institute of Technology
Dequan Zheng	Harbin Institute of Technology
Nengheng Zheng	Shenzhen University
Liu Zhong	Guilin University of Technology
Guodong Zhou	Soo Chow University
Jingbo Zhu	Northeastern University
Qiaoming Zhu	Soo Chow University
Chengqing Zong	Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Haifan Meng	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Lihong Hao	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Shujiang Ye	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
He Wu	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Zhongyuan Meng	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Chengzhe Huang	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Ru Yang	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Yanyan Zhang	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Zhongyuan Han	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Jun Li	Heilongjiang Institute of Technology
Tse-Min Lua	COLIPS
Nicole Wong	COLIPS
Bin Ma	Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS
Ming Liu	Institute for Infocomm Research

MORE INFORMATION

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