2008 IEEE International Conference on
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'08)

Oct. 19-22, 2008 -- Beijing, China

http://caai.cn:8086/nlpke08/index.html

Due to the great needs of economic globalization and the rapid advancement
of information technology, Natural Language Processing based on Knowledge
Engineering has become one of the most attractive focuses in research. The
extraordinary success of the previous conferences, 2003, 2005 and 2007
International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge
Engineering, NLP-KE'03-Beijing, NLP-KE'05-Wuhan and NLP-KE'07-Beijing have
clearly proved it.

The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and
Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'08, will be held on Oct.19-22, 2008, in
Beijing, China. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers reporting
original and previously unpublished work. Papers are to be submitted
electronically, as PDF or WORD files. The required format for the paper is
in IEEE conference format which can be found in IEEE website or download
from the conference website. Only the full papers received before the
deadline will be considered for review. The length of a paper is limited to
8 pages and extra pages will be charged. Most papers in the past proceedings
have been indexed by EI. In addition, about 30% of accepted papers will be
recommended for publication in International Journal of Innovative
Computing, Information and Control (indexed by SCI). And, about 45% of
accepted papers will be selected for publication in EI journals.


The Important Dates
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Deadline of Paper Submission: 1 June 2008
Acceptance Notification: ? 1 Aug, 2008
Early Registration:??? 1 Sep, 2008


The topics of the conference
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include, but not limited to, the following

A. Fundamental NLP Technologies
A-01 Word Sense Disambiguation
A-02 Language Modeling
A-03 Speech Recognition
A-04 Text-To-Speech Synthesis
A-05 Spoken Language Processing
A-06 Dialog Strategy and Technology
A-07 Natural Language Learning
A-08 Natural Language Generation
A-09 Natural Language Understanding
A-10 Evaluation of Natural Language Systems
A-11 Lexical Resources and Corpora
A-12 Corpora Linguistics
A-13 Ontology
A-14 Statistic vs. Linguistic Approaches
A-15 Semantic Web

B. Major Applications of NLP
B-01 Machine Translation
B-02 Multiple Language Translation
B-03 Multi-lingual, Multi-Function
B-04 Information Retrieval
B-05 Information Extraction
B-06 Text Categorization
B-07 Text Summarization
B-08 E-mail Rubbish Filtering System
B-09 Web-page Security Monitoring
B-10 Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog and Multi-Media Systems
B-11 Tour-Guide System
B-12 Applications in E-Commerce
B-13 Artificial Emotion
B-14 Affective Computing
B-15 Other Applications

C. Knowledge Engineering in NLP
C-01 Text Mining
C-02 Knowledge Acquisition
C-03 Knowledge Representation
C-04 Knowledge Discovery
C-05 Machine Learning
C-06 Distributed AI
C-07 Multi-Agent Systems
C-08 Uncertainty Management in Data Mining
C-09 Induction-Based Knowledge Creation from Information
C-10 Information-Knowledge-Intelligence Transformations
C-11 Other Issues related to Knowledge Theory
C-12 Language Knowledge Engineering

D. Workshops and Exhibitions are to be announced.