welcome to ICON 2014

The Eleventh International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2014) will be held at Goa University, Goa, India during December 18-21, 2014. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 19-20 2014. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials/workshops on December 18, 2014 and post conference tutorials/workshops on December 21, 2014.

ICON proceedings will be indexed in ACL Anthology. ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in Computational Linguistics for major international conferences under the control of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) which is a major association in CL.

paper Topics

Morphology	            Parsing
Phonology	            Word Sense Disambiguation
Syntax	            	    Machine Translation
Semantics 	            Information Retrieval
Discourse 	            Text Summarization
Pragmatics	            Question Answering
Statistical methods         Dialog Systems
Knowledge-based methods     Performance Evaluation
Annotated Corpora 	    Acoustic-phonetic analysis
Language Learning           Speech recognition and synthesis 
Lexical Resources 	    Spoken language understanding
POS tagging                 Spoken language databases   
Ontology 	            Spoken data mining 

call for Tutorials/Workshops

Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops 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.

Workshops on Linguistic aspects of South Asian Languages are also welcome.

nlp tools contests at ICON 2014

The ICON 2014 tools contest is on on Statistical Machine Translation in Indian Languages(IL).

Machine translation (MT) is the process of encoding the syntactic and semantic information of a source language text into a target language. In past two decades, MT has shown very promising results particularly using Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) especially for English and other European Languages. However, its effectiveness in translating sentences within Indian Languages (IL) and between English and Indian languages needs to be explored further. The NLP tool contest in ICON 2014 aims to collectively explore the effectiveness of SMT while translating within ILs and between English and ILs.

student paper contests at ICON 2014

ICON-2014 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:
Track I : NLP (All areas)
Track II : Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)
Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out.

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