The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

January 7-12, 2008
Hyderabad, India
http://www.ijcnlp2008.org/

The 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-08) will be organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing and will be held in Hyderabad, India on January 7-12, 2008.

Submission deadline: July 31, 2007 (US Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -7:00))

SCOPE

IJCNLP-08 invites the submission of original papers in all areas of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

* Word Segmentation/POS Tagging
* Chunking/Shallow Parsing
* Parsing/Grammatical Formalisms
* Semantic Processing/Lexical Semantics
* Ontologies and Linguistic Resources
* Statistical Models/Machine Learning for NLP
* Discourse
* Paraphrasing/Entailment/Generation
* Machine Translation
* Information Retrieval
* Text Mining/Information Extraction
* QA/Text Summarization
* Spoken Language Processing
* Asian Language Processing and Linguistics Issues in NLP

CONFERENCE DATES AND VENUE
Main Conference: January 8-10, 2008
Tutorials: January 7, 2008
Workshops: January 11-12, 2008
Venue: Hyderabad, India

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Format: Submit your paper as a PDF file. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed 6 pages, excluding References Section. We recommend using the ACL 2007 style files at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/ or alike. Obey the two-column format and use 11-point font.

Anonymization: Reviewing will be blind, so in preparing your manuscript, do not include any information which could reveal your identity, or that of your co-authors. The title section of your manuscript should not contain any author names, email addresses, or affiliation information.

Double submission policy: Papers presented at IJCNLP should consist mainly of new material that has not been previously published or is being under submission. Submission of similar papers to another journal, conference or workshop must be disclosed on the first page of the submission.

How to submit your paper: Paper submission is handled electronically using the START system on the following URL: https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp/main/submit.html

FORMAT OF FINAL VERSION OF PAPERS

Final vesions of accpeted papers should also follow the two-column ACL format. The length of final papers should not exceed eight pages. Some papers may be accepted as poster papers, in which case the pages should not exceed six pages.

PROCCEDINGS

The proccedings of the 3rd IJCNLP will not be published from Springer. Springer's LNCS and LNAI series are not anymore SCI indexed, and we will publish the proceedings, in printed and CD-ROM forms, of our own. All the conference and workshop papers will be archived in ACL Anthology right after the conference.

DEADLINES
Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2007
Notification of acceptance: September 17, 2007
Camera ready papers due: October 15, 2007

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Committee Chairs:

Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge
(Ann.Copestake@cl.cam.ac.uk)

Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
(matsu@is.naist.jp)

Areas and Area Chairs:

Information Retrieval
Li Hang, Microsoft China

Parsing/Grammatical Formalisms
Beth Ann Hockey, UCSC

Chunking/Shallow Parsing
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research

Statistical Models/Machine Learning for NLP
Robert Malouf, San Diego State University

Machine Translation
Philipp Koehn, University of Edingburgh

Word Segmentation/POS Tagging
Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University

Semantic Processing/Lexical Semantics
Patrick St Dizier, IRIT

Ontologies and Linguistic Resources
Nancy Ide, Vasaar College

Paraphrasing/Entailment/Generation
Kentaro Inui, NAIST

Discourse
Alistair Knott, University of Otago

QA/Text Summarization
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas

Text Mining/Information Extraction
James Curran, University of Sydney

Spoken Language Processing
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH

Asian Language Processing and Linguistics Issues in NLP
Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica