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Call for papersThe sixth International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON 2008) will be held at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India during 20-22 December, 2008. The ICON conference series is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. 1. TOPICS:
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research
on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular
focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India. The
areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
ICON-2008 will also have a separate track on Linguistic models in NLP. Purely theoretical papers in linguistics which have implications for computational linguistics are also invited under this track. 2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION
Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted at
www.iiit.ac.in/icon2008. One can also submit hard copy (four copies)
under special circumstances. Papers should include an abstract of
about 100-200 words. Papers outside the specified length are
subject to rejection without review. Please see the style file
at www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials can
be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented
in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the
content, description of the proposers and their qualifications
relating to the tutorial content.
4. NLP TOOLS CONTEST: Statistical Machine Translation (English to Hindi)
Machine translation involves automatic translation of sentences in
one language to another. The statistical approaches for doing
machine translation have proved effective in recent years, specially
for translating between European languages. However, its
effectiveness in translating sentences from English and Indian
languages needs to be explored further.
In the contest, training data will be provided to the contestants. It will consist of English-Hindi parallel corpus. The contestants will have to train their systems on the data. A development corpus will also be provided to refine and improve their system. The final contest will be held on November, 2008 with the test data. A workshop will be held as a part of ICON to allow the short listed candidates to present their techniques and results. The contestants are free to use any of the following:
- Linguistic tools - Not trained on test/devel set .
- Lingu. Resources - Not extracted from test/devel set .
- Any annotated data - Data not from test/devel set .
However, any of the above components used by the participants in this contest have to be shared with all the other participants. Resources: *English-Hindi parallel corpus. *Resources shared by participants of the contest. 5. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES
ICON-2008 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:
Track I :
NLP (All areas)
6. IMPORTANT DATES
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