Last Update: 2001/07/06 21:35
NLPRS 2001 Final Call For Papers 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 27 - 29 November, 2001 National Center of Science Tokyo, Japan URL: http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html
Organization
General Conference Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Program Chair: Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan) Program Co-Chairs: Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Nara, Japan) Tian-Shun Yao (Northeastern University, China) Local Organization Chair: Hiroshi Nakagawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Invited Speakers 
Furui, Sadaoki (Tokyo Institute Tech, Japan)
"From Read Speech Recognition to Spontaneous Speech Understanding"
Harabagiu, Sanda (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
"Just-in-Time Textual Question Answering"
Hirschberg, Julia (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
"Audio Browsing and Search in the Voicemail Domain"
Tsou, Benjamin (City University of Hong Kong, HongKong)
"Corpus, Information Mining and the New Global Village"
Scope of the Conference
NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of both research efforts and application development in Natural Language Processing related fields, and has been held every other year in the past. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing related areas, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, morphology and lexical acquisition; knowledge acquisition (especially via unsupervised learning); corpus analysis; statistical language modeling; spoken and written language analysis and generation; machine translation and translation aids; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; text mining; approaches to coordinating the linguistic in multi-modal interaction; reading comprehension; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; Internet applications; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Both Regular Papers and Project Notes are welcome.Requirements
Papers should emphasize original and completed work rather than intended work. Why the proposed approaches are adopted is more important than the description of what has been done. Whenever possible, statistically significant test should be conducted and concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at NLPRS 2001 cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must be indicated clearly in the title page.Reviewing
The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by three reviewers.Submission Procedure
You are requested to first register your submission by July 10, 2001. This can be done by filling out an electronic form that will be accessible at the Paper Submission Web at: http://nlp.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/~shin/NLPRS/. You will get a paper ID code, after you have completed the Paper Registration procedure. (See "Paper Registration" below.) The assigned paper ID code must appear on your submission, and it will be used in all the following communications. Although electronic submission is strongly recommended, hardcopy submission is also accepted. However, if electronic submission is selected, the file format must be readily browsable and printable in PS (PostScript) or PDF format. See Submission Details below for more information.Important Dates
Paper Registration deadline: July, 10th, 2001 Paper Submissions deadline: July, 16th, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: September, 3rd, 2001 (*NEW)
Camera Ready Papers due: October, 5th, 2001 (*NEW)
NLPRS 2001 Conference: November, 27-29, 2001
*. PRE-REGISTRATION TO THE CONFERENCE:
Before submitting the final camera ready copy, at least one
of the authors should pre-register to the conference to
make sure that the paper will be presented by an appropriate
author. For Conference Registration instructions, please
refer to the NLPRS URL at:
http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html
The online registration web page is directed to
http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/NLPRS2001/registration.html
Program Committee
Ananiadou, Sophia (University of Salford, UK) Asanee, Kawtrakul (Kasetsart Univ., Thailand) Boitet, Christian (CLIPS-GETA, France) Chang, Jason S. (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Chang, Jing-Shin (National Chi-Nan Univ., Taiwan) Chen, Hsin-Hsi (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Chen, Keh-Jiann (IIS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Church, Kenneth (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Dale, Robert (Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia) Dong, Zhendong (Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China) Estival, Dominique (Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia) Hovy, Eduard (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Huang, Chu-Ren (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Inui, Kentaro (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Ishizaki, Masato (Japan Advanced Inst. of Science & Technology, Japan) Kageura, Kyo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Kashioka, Hideki (ATR-SLT / NAIST, Japan) Kurohashi, Sadao (Kyoto University, Japan) Lee, Gary Geunbae (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Lee, Yong-seok (Conbuk National University, Korea) Li, Hang (Microsoft Research China, China) Lin, Dekang (University of Alberta, Canada) Lua, Kim-Teng (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Macklovitch, Elliott (Universite de Montreal, Canada) Molla Aliod, Diego (Macquarie University, Australia) Myaeng, Sung Hyon (Chungnam National University, Korea) Nagata, Masaaki (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Japan) Ng, Hwee Tou (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore) Ock, Cheol-Young (Univ. of Ulsan, Korea) Okumura, Manabu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Palmer, Martha (Univ. Penn, USA) Park, Jong Cheol (KAIST, Korea) Park, Sangkyu (Linguistic Engineering Department, ETRI, Korea) Pustejovsky, James (Brandeis Univ., USA) Ra, Dong-Yul (Yonsei University, Korea) Resnik, Philip (University of Maryland, USA) Rim, Hae-Chang (Korea University, Korea) Riza, Hammam (BPP Teknologi, Indonesia) Sangal, Rajeev (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India) Sarkar, Anoop (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Seo, Jungyun (DiQuest.com Inc., Korea) Sornlertlamvanich, Virach (NECTEC, Thailand) Sproat, Richard (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Sun, Maosong (Tsinghua University, China) Swen, Bing (ICL, Peking University, China) Tanaka, Kumiko (University of Tokyo, Japan) Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Tsou, Benjamin K. (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Uchimoto, Kiyotaka (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) Uszkoreit, Hans (University of Saarbruecken, Germany) Vossen, Piek (Irion, Netherlands) Wilks, Yorick (University of Sheffield, UK) Wu, Dekai (HKUST, Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong) Wu, Lide (Fudan University, Shanghai, China) Yusoff, Zaharin (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia) Zhou, Joe F (Intel China Research Center, Beijing, China) Zhou, Ming (Microsoft Research, Beijing, China)Submission Details --
Category of Submission
The submission can be a Regular Paper or a Project Notes depending
on the nature of the paper. Regular paper authors can choose to
present their papers in oral or poster. And, Project Notes may
be accompanied with or without a demo.
The authors should indicate the preferred category in the title page
(after the paper ID) as either "regular/oral", "regular/poster",
"project notes/with demo", or "project notes/without demo".
The Program Committee, however, have the rights to re-assign
the category of the submission.
Format and Style
The length of a regular paper should be limited to 8 double-column pages of A4 size, including the bibliography part. A project notes, on the other hand, should not exceed 6 pages. The point size of the characters should not be smaller than 10 point size to make the paper easily readable. To allow blind review, the submission for review should include the title of the paper, a unique paper ID assigned by the program committee (*See "Paper Registration" below), a 150-word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. This means that your submission should have the following layout on the first/title page: Title: This is My Submission to NLPRS-2001 PaperID: 0123 (unique paper ID acquired when registration) Category: regular/oral (or "regular/poster",
"project notes/with demo", "project notes/without demo")
Keywords: Lexicon Acquisition, ... (at most 5 keywords)
Submitted to Other Conferences: NO (or YES)
Abstract: ... (less than 150 words)
Explicit or implicit author identification information (such as author names,
email addresses) should not appear in the title page.
Papers which do not conform to the above format or the scope of
the conference is subject to rejection without notice.
After the submission is accepted, the authors should submit
a camera-ready copy of the paper by replacing the unique paper ID
with the name and affiliation of each author, and e-mail address of
the author responsible for correspondence.
A style sheet (in both Microsoft Word and LaTeX template files) is
available at the following URL:
http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html
However, the submission must be converted into PS (PostScript) or PDF
format before electronic submission.
Paper Registration
The authors should register the papers in advance in order to get a unique paper ID for each paper, and use the unique ID for author identification throughout the reviewing process. The authors are also requested to fill a form for each submission, indicating the subcategorization of each paper. The registration and submission procedure is outlined as follows: 1. AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION: The first author (or any responsible author) should visit the web page at: http://nlp.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/~shin/NLPRS/ to register a username and password for author identification. An email address should be given for confirmation. 2. PAPER REGISTRATION: The author then uses this username and password to enter the paper registration pages of the above website. In the registration pages, the author will be asked to fill a form for each paper, indicating the title of the paper, and the contact information of the authors. The paper will then be given a unique paper ID for the registered paper. You can register more than one paper and get the associated paper IDs, one for each paper. PAPER CHARACTERIZATION: The author will also be requested to fill a form indicating the characteristics of the paper. Such information will be used for matching the papers with the reviewers to ensure that your submissions are reviewed by the most appropriate reviewers. 3. Once you have registered the paper for submission and got the unique paper ID, you can use the paper ID together with the paper title to submit your paper. (Any other author identification information, explicit or implicit, should be suppressed for blind review.) This means that your submission should have the following layout on the first/title page: Title: This is My Submission to NLPRS-2001 PaperID: 0123 (unique paper ID acquired when registration) Category: regular/oral (or "regular/poster",
"project notes/with demo", "project notes/without demo")
Keywords: Lexicon Acquisition, ... (at most 5 keywords)
Submitted to Other Conferences: NO (or YES)
Abstract: ... (less than 150 words)
Explicit or implicit author identification information (such as author names,
email addresses) should not appear in the title page.
Papers which do not conform to the above format or the scope of
the conference is subject to rejection without notice.
To submit the paper electronically, you can visit the above
website, and click the paper submission link to launch a paper
submission/upload page. You then provide the paper ID
and the local filename of your submission,
and press the "Submit" button to upload your paper.
4. Upon notification of acceptance, you can use the same step
to submit your camera-ready copy of the paper, with all
author information replacing the paper ID.