Fifth International Workshop On Cross Lingual Information Access:
Computational Linguistics and the Information Need of Multilingual Societies

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Fifth International Workshop On Cross Lingual Information Access:
Computational Linguistics and the Information Need of Multilingual Societies
(http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/~clia2011/)
IJCNLP 2011 Workshop
13 November 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Cross lingual information access (CLIA) is concerned with any technologies
and applications that enable people to freely access information that is
expressed in any languages. With the rapid development of globalization and
digital online information in Internet, huge demand for cross lingual
information access has emerged from ordinary netizens (polyglots or
monoglots) who are surfing the Internet for special information (e.g.
travelling, product description), and communicating in soaring social
networks (e.g. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Myspace), to global companies
which provide multilingual services to their multinational customers, and
governments who aim to lower the barriers to international commerce and
collaboration, and homeland security. This huge demand has triggered vigorous
research and development in CLIA.

This workshop is a continuous effort to address the need of cross-lingual
information access on top of its previous four issues which were held during
IJCAI 2007 in Hyderabad, IJCNLP 2008 in Hyderabad, NAACL 2009 in Colorado,
and COLING 2010 in Beijing. It aims to bring together researchers from a
variety of fields such as information retrieval, computational linguistics,
machine translation, and digital library, and practitioners from government
and industry to address the issues of information need of multilingual
society. We also would like to promote and emphasize the potential
contributions of NLP and computational linguistic aspects to CLIA, in
addition to the previously better represented viewpoint from Information
Retrieval. Specifically, the key interests are in:

1. Novel methods to mine knowledge from multilingual corpora using CL and/or
NLP techniques.

2. Techniques to customize machine translation in order to satisfy the
special requirements of CLIA.

3. Methods to adapt the existing CL/NLP approaches in information extraction,
question answering, summarization, categorization, sentiment analysis,
opinion extraction from a monolingual context to a multilingual context.

4. Techniques for leveraging multilingual resources to improve the
performance of monolingual information access.

We thus solicit submissions in, but not limited to, the following topics:

General CLIA:

· Approaches to cross-lingual/ multilingual information access

· Domain specific multilingual information access

· Cross-lingual cross media search (speech, video, audio)

· Machine Learning for multilingual information access

· Scalability issues in multilingual information access/ system evaluation

· Web-scale cross-lingual search

Machine translation in CLIA:

· Interaction between cross-language information retrieval and machine
translation

· Query translation and document translation

· Developing statistical machine translation on large-scale multilingual
corpora

· Domain adaptation in machine translation

· Multilingual / Cross-lingual named entity recognition

NLP/CL/IR for CLIA:

· Multilingual summarization

· Multilingual information extraction

· Multilingual question answering

· Multilingual text categorization and clustering

· Multilingual opinion study and sentiment analysis

· Monolingual processing leveraging on multilingual resources

CLIA evaluation and deployment:

· CLIA user studies and user-centric evaluation

· CLIA system deployment on social networks (e.g., Facebook or Twitter) or
handheld computers or smartphones (e.g., iPad or iPhone)

Multilingual knowledge acquisition:

· Acquisition of multilingual parallel/comparable/non-comparable corpora

· Multilingual document/sentence/word alignment

· Multilingual lexicon/term extraction

· Multilingual new words / named entity detection and translation

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work on the
topics of this workshop. Submissions should follow the IJCNLP 2011 length and
formatting requirements for long papers of eight (8) pages of contents with
two (2) additional pages of references, and for short papers of two (4) pages
of contents with two (2) additional pages of references. A detailed abstract
with two (2) pages to address your on-going work is also welcome.

Important Dates:

June 1, 2011: Papers due

July 29, 2011: Notification of acceptance

August 19, 2011: Camera-ready deadline

November 13, 2011: Workshop

Organizers:

Asif Ekbal, IIT Patna, India (Co-chair)

Deyi Xiong, Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore (Co-chair)

Prasenjit Majumder, DAIICT, India

Mitesh Khapra, IIT Bombay, India

Program Committee Members

Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Wenliang Chen Institute for Infocomm Research
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University
Pushpak Bhattacharya IIT Bombay
Nicola Cancedda Xerox Research Centre (Europe)
Somnath Chandra MIT, Govt. of India
Patrick Saint Dizier IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier
Nicola Ferro University of Padua
Cyril Goutte National Research Council of Canada
A Kumaran Microsoft Research of India
Gareth Jones Dublin City University
Joemon Jose University of Glasgow
Swaran Lata MIT, Govt. of India
Gina-Anne Levow National Centre for Text Mining (UK)
Ting Liu Harbin Institute of Technology
Mandar Mitra ISI Kolkata
Min Zhang Institute for Infocomm Research
Doug Ouard University of Maryland, College Park
Carol Peters Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione and CLEF
campaign
Paolo Rosso Technical University of Valencia
Sudeshna Sarkar IIT Kharagpur
L Sobha AU-KBC, Chennai
Rohini Srihari University at Buffalo, SUNY
Ralf Steinberger European Commission - Joint Research Centre (Italy)
Raghavendra Udupa Microsoft Research, India
Vasudeva Varma IIIT Hyderabad
Qun Liu Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
Yang Liu Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
Xiangyu Duan Institute for Infocomm Research
Jun Lang Institute for Infocomm Research
Rafael Banchs Institute for Infocomm Research