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Call for papers: CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010)
August 28-29, Beijing, China
http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfp.htm
Background and Goals
With the rapid of expansion of
Chinese language materials on the Internet, the use of natural language
technology as a way of harnessing Chinese language content is drawing
growing interest from researchers around the globe. The rise of China as
a global power with increasing influence on the world stage is only
fanning this interest. The Chinese language also has a number of
characteristics that make Chinese language processing particularly
challenging and intellectually rewarding. For example, written Chinese
text does not have conventionalized word boundaries like English and
other Western languages, and researchers have devoted an enormous amount
of energy to figuring out the best way to identify words, which is
generally considered to the first step for more advanced language
processing tasks. There have been four successful international Chinese
word segmentation bakeoffs sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group
on Chinese Language Processing (
SIGHAN
), and they have drawn wide
participation and have greatly advanced the state-of-the-art in this
area. The Chinese language is also characterized by the lack of formal
devices such as morphological tense and number that often provide
important clues for shallow language processing tasks like
part-of-speech tagging and syntactic chunking. As a result, solutions to
Chinese language processing problems often require more sophisticated
language processing techniques that are capable of drawing inferences
from more subtle information.
Against this backdrop, the first conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2010) jointly
organized by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (
CIPS
)
and SIGHAN, will be held on August 28-29, 2010 in Beijing, right after
COLING 2010
and in the same venue. The goal is to bring together both established and
aspiring researchers around the globe and provide a unified forum for
them to showcase their research achievements, share their ideas, and
frame research problems that are crucial in advancing the
state-of-the-art in Chinese language processing.
Papers are invited on
substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Chinese
language processing, including but not limited to:
word segmentation
part-of-speech tagging
syntactic chunking and parsing
lexical semantics
semantic role labeling
word sense disambiguation
lexicon acquisition
corpus development and language resources
evaluation methods and user studies
computational models of discourse
temporal and spatial information processing
sentimental analysis and opinion mining
language generation
information extraction
question answering
information retrieval
dialogue systems
machine translation
The CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference
on Chinese Language Processing will also feature four international
bake-offs in Chinese Language Processing, and these are:
Chinese word segmentation
Chinese Parsing
Chinese Personal Name disambiguation
Chinese Word Sense Induction
Please visit the website (
http://www.cipsc.org.cn/clp2010/cfpa.htm
) for the details on these competitions.
Submission Method
Papers should be written in
English and may not exceed 8 pages (including all illustrations,
references and appendices, and using 11pt for the main text). We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or MS Word document template provided by COLING 2010, available at
http://www.coling-2010.org
. Since reviewing will be blind, manuscripts
should not include authors' names and affiliations.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline:
May 30, 2010 Jun 10, 2010
Notification of Paper Acceptance: Jun 30, 2010 July 22, 2010
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: July 10, 2010 July 31, 2010
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