International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) will be held at IIIT, Hyderabad, India during 4 - 6 January, 2007. The main conference will be held on 4 - 5 January 2007 followed by tutorial on 6 January. The 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.

ICON-2007 is a collocated event with the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07). IJCAI-07 will be held in Hyderabad, India from 6 - 12 January, 2007. A number of NLP related workshops and tutorials are part of IJCAI-07 along with NLP sessions in the main conference. Participants who attend ICON-2007 Conference will be given a special package to attend IJCAI-07. Please see below under registration details and also visit www.ijcai-07.org for more information.

There will be four keynote lectures in the conference besides the technical program of contributed papers. Please visit ICON-2007 URL for more details Click Here

1. "Anusaaraka: An approach to Machine Translation"
   
   Akshar Bharati, Vineet Chaitanya1, Amba Kulkarni2
   1Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, 2 University of Hyderabad, India
   
   
2. "On Estimating Probability Mass Functions from Small Samples"
   
   Prof Sanjeev Khudanpur, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
   
   
3. "Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large"
   
   Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
   
   
4. "The Semantic Quilt: Contexts, Co-occurrences, Kernels, and Ontologies"
   
   Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
   
   

After rigorous international refereeing process, the following papers have been selected for presentation at the conference.

• Building Feature Rich POS Tagger for Morphologically Rich Languages: Experiences in Hindi
  - Aniket Dalal, Kumar Nagaraj, Uma Sawant, Sandeep Shelke, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
• Unsupervised Morphological Learning for Bangla
  - Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng
• Chinese Terminology Extraction Using Window-based Contextual Information
  - Luning Ji, Mantai Sum, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Yirong Chen
• An Evaluation Framework based on Gold Standard Models for Definition Question Answering
  - Samir Kanaan, Jordi Turmo
• INGIT: Limited Domain Formulaic Translation from Hindi to Indian Sign Language
  - Purushottam Kar, Madhusudan Reddy, Amitabha Mukerjee, Achla M Raina
• Pause Prediction from Lexical and Syntax Information
  - Venkatesh Keri, Sathish Chandra Pammi, Kishore Prahallad
• Semantically Relatable Sequences in the Context of Interlingua Based Machine Translation
  - Rajat Kumar Mohanty, M. Krishna Prasad, Lakshmi Narayanaswamy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
• Grounded Acquisition of Containment Prepositions
  -Amitabha Mukerjee, Mausoom Sarkar
• Some Issues in Automatic Evaluation of English-Hindi MT: more blues for BLEU
  - Ananthakrishnan R, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, M. Sasikumar, Ritesh Shah
• JIRS Language-Independent Passage Retrieval System A Comparative Study
  José. Gó, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso and Emilio Sanchis-Arnal

• A Hybrid Approach to Example based Machine Translation for Indian Languages
  - Vamshi Ambati, Rohini. U
• Error-tolerant Finite-state Recognizer and String Pattern Similarity Based Spelling-Checker for Bangla
  - Munshi Asadullah, Md. Zahurul Islam, Mumit Khan
• Lexical Pattern Learning from Corpus Data for Named entity recognition
  - Asif Ekbal, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay,
• Duration Analysis for Malayalam Text to speech Systems
  - Deepa P. Gopinath, Sheeba P.S, Achuthsankar S. Nair
• A Morphological Analyzer for Sinhala Language
  - B. Hettige, A. S. Karunananda
• Access to Cultural Event Information via NL
  - Leonardo Lesmo, Livio Robaldo
• SenseNet: A Linguistic Tool to visualize numerical-valence Based Sentiment of Textual Data
  - Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka
• Social Network Analysis of Natural Language Text
  - Delip Rao, Deepak Khemani
• A Standardized General X-bar Rule Schemata
  - Manjeet Singh, A.K. Sharma
• A Corpus-based approach for noun phrase parsing
  - Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

There will be one full day tutorial on 6 Jan 2007. For more details, Please visit ICON-2007 URL for more details Click Here

6 Jan 2007 (10:00 am - 5:00 pm):

Tutorial:	XLE and XFR: A Grammar Development Platform with a Parser/Generator and Rewrite System.
Speakers:	Miriam Butt,Universitaet Konstanz, Germany Tracy Holloway King, Palo Alto Research Center, USA

ICON-2007 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:
Track I : Natural Language Processing
Track II : Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition

Prizes will be awarded in each track for a total of two papers.

Registration Details:

For delegates attending ICON-2007, there is a special package, by which they can attend three associated pre-conference workshops and tutorials (in whatever combination), the opening inauguration and the first day of IJCAI-07 main conference by paying a highly reduced rate:

Click here for Online REGISTRATIONS

The offline registration form in PDF format can be downloaded by clicking here .

Travel support for students:

A limited number of students can be supported for travel within India under a grant from CIIL, Mysore. Kindly send your applications by December 5, 2006 to 'icon2007@iiit.ac.in'
For any clarification, please contact icon2007@iiit.ac.in

Conference Venue:
IIIT Hyderabad, India

Tutorial Venue:
IIIT Hyderabad, India

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