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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International MALINDO Workshop (MALINDO2008)

12-13 June 2008

Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

http://utmk.cs.usm.my/mcm/index.php/MALINDO2008/

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AIM

A considerable amount of research has been done on the processing of
Indonesian and Malaysian languages offering a variety of Computational
Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources
(dictionaries, thesauri, monolingual/parallel corpora, etc.), tools
(morphological analysers/generators, stemmers, spelling checkers, syntactic
parsers, etc.) and applications (machine translation, information
extraction, information retrieval systems,etc.). All these valuable language
resources, tools, and services are most of the time ignored by the public
and often not known by the researchers and students working on these
languages. This second MALINDO Workshop aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners, representing different perspectives, to share and to
exchange their ideas on the processing of Indonesian and Malaysian
languages. Thus, the organisers of the workshop wants to highlight the
effort and promising works done on the processing of Indonesian and
Malaysian languages in order to attract more students to the CL and NLP
fields and also to let all the NLP communities in this World to be aware of
their existence.

Prospective authors are invited to submit unpublished papers on any topic
that is of interest to the processing of Malaysian and Indonesian languages
and its broad applications, for presentation at the workshop and publication
in the proceedings.

The workshop will be of interest to anyone working on the processing
- computational and theoretical point of view - of Indonesian and Malaysian
languages.

The MALINDO Workshop is organised by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM,
Penang, Malaysia), Universitas Indonesia (UI, Jakarta, Indonesia), and
National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore).
The workshop is hosted by the Multimedia University (MMU, Cyberjaya,
Selangor, Malaysia).


TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of the papers are requested to be in all areas related to the
processing - computational and theoretical point of view - of Malaysian and
Indonesian languages.

* Language resources development, acquisition, annotation,
and representation: dictionaries, thesauri, terminology, lexicons,
written and spoken corpora, grammars, ontology

* CL and NLP tools and techniques: spelling/grammatical/style checkers,
morphological analyser, stemmer, lemmatiser, part of speech tagger,
chunker, syntactic parser, word sense disambiguator, discourse
processing, text and speech alignment, text and speech segmentation,
term extraction and recognition, named entity extraction,

* CL and NLP applications: machine translation and translation aids,
information retrieval, information extraction, text summarisation,
term extraction, natural language generation, question translation
aids, information retrieval, information extraction, text
summarization, term extraction, natural language generation, question
answering, document categorization, language identification, speech
recognition, speech synthesis, character recognition, e-learning,


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: 24 March, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 24 April, 2008
Final version due for Proceedings: 5 May, 2008
Registration fee due: 12 May, 2008
Workshop dates: 12-13 June, 2008


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

- Upload your submission in PDF or MSWord format at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=malindo2008

- Submission should be at most 8000 words. We suggest to authors
to use IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting
Guidelines:

MSWord:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.doc

Latex:

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip


WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Honorary Workshop Chair:
Zaharin Yusoff, Multimedia University

Workshop Chair:
Tang Enya Kong, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Programme Co-chairs:
Mirna Adriani, Universitas Indonesia
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore

Preliminary Programme Committee:
Adi Budiwiyanto, Pusat Bahasa, Indonesia Alvin Yeo, University Malaysia
Sarawak, Malaysia Arry Akhmad Arman, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Bali Ranaivo-Malanon,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia David Gil, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Didier Schwab, University of Montpellier, France Frederic Andres, National
Institute of Informatics, Japan Gilles Serasset, University Joseph-Fourier,
France Hammam Riza, Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi, Indonesia
Hisar M. Manurung, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Kan Min Yen, National
University of Singapore, Singapore Mahani Aljunied, Institute for Infocomm
Research, Singapore Mathieu Lafourcade, University of Montpellier, France Ng
Hwee Tou, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rila Mandala, Institut
Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Tang Enya Kong, Univeristi Sains Malaysia,
Malaysia Yves Lepage, University of Caen, France Zainal A. Hasibuan,
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

Local Organisation Chair:
Bali Ranaivo-Malanon, Universiti Sains Malaysia


Local Organisers:
Norliza Hani Md. Ghazali, Universiti Sains Malaysia Nour Azimah Zulkapli,
Universiti Sains Malaysia Sabrina Tiun Abdullah, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Siti Khaotijah Mohammad, Universiti Sains Malaysia Rohana Omar, Universiti
Sains Malaysia Tan Ewe Hoe, Universiti Sains Malaysia


Webmasters:
Dennis Wong Chin Phang, Universiti Sains Malaysia Jasy Liew Suet Yan,
Universiti Sains Malaysia


CONTACT

Send your questions and queries to the organisers at malindo2@cs.usm.my.


Please forward this message to anyone whom you think may have an interest in
the workshop.