ICON-2011: Ninth INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI, INDIA
16 - 19 December 2011
Organized by
NLP Association, India
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,
India
AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, Chennai, India
Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), CIIL,
Mysore
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The Ninth International Conference on Natural Language
Processing(ICON-2011) will be held at Anna University, Chennai, India
during 16-19 December, 2011. The ICON conference series is a forum for
promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural
Language Processing in India and abroad. The main conference is on
December 18-19 December 2011. This will be preceded by two days of pre-
conference tutorials and workshops on 16-17 Dec 2011.
1. TOPICS:
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research
on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus
on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India. The areas of
interest include, but are not limited to:
Morphology Parsing
Phonology Word Sense
Disambiguation
Syntax Machine
Translation
Semantics Information
Retrieval
Discourse Text
Summarization
Pragmatics Question
Answering
Statistical methods Dialog Systems
Knowledge-based methods Performance Evaluation
Annotated Corpora Speech Corpora
Lexical Resources Speech Recognition
Ontology Speech
Synthesis
POS tagging
The authors must mark the topic of their paper at the time of
submission.
2. TRACKS
2.1 The authors have to submit the papers under any one of the
following
categories.
- Theoretical Linguistics
- Theoretical computational linguistics
- Empirical/data-driven approaches
- Paradigms/techniques/strategies
- Resources and evaluation
- Applications/systems
2.2 Special track
- Natural Language Software Engineering
- Linguistic Engineering
2.3 Position Papers
A paper which expresses an opinion or point of view affecting
the field.
3. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:
Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted at
www.iiit.ac.in/icon2011. One can also submit hard copies (four copies)
under special circumstances. Papers should include an abstract of
about 100-200 words. Papers outside the specified length are subject
to rejection without review. Please see the style file at
www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/
BLIND REVIEW:
Kindly ensure that authors' names and affiliations are given only on a
separate cover sheet. Papers in electronic form can be in plain text,
Postscript, PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF only). If your paper
contains text of languages other than English, please attach relevant
font files along with your submission.
4. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS:
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops.
Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The
proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one
page topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and
their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.
Workshops on Linguistic aspects of South Asian Languagaes are also
welcome.
Send tutorial/Workshop proposals to the ICON-2011 Secretariat. For
further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the
ICON-2011 Secretariat.
5.NLP TOOLS CONTEST ON ANAPHORA RESOLUTION IN INDIAN LANGUAGES:
The ICON2011 tools contest is on Anaphora Resolution in Indian
languages (IL). Any entity that is referred to another entity
preceding it is called an anaphor. The referent to the anaphor is
termed as the antecedent. The identification of the antecedent of an
anaphora automatically is anaphora resolution.
CONTEST:
Participants will be provided training, development and test data to
report the efficiency of their Anaphora Resolution System. Bengali,
Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu languages will be explored. The task
of the contest is to identify the antecedents for an anaphor from a
POS, NP Chunked and NE tagged corpus. Efficiency of the system is
measured using Precision and Recall. Shortlisted candidates will
present their techniques and results in a special session at ICON
2011.
The Contest will have two prizes :
FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-
SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-
6. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES:
ICON-2011 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:
Track I : NLP (All areas)
Track II : Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)
Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be
awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work
carried out. The prizes are::
FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-
SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-
The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation
in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel
and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers
for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer
fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications,
contact Student Paper Competition Chair on icon2011@iiit.ac.in.
7. IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper registration deadline Jul 25, 2011
Paper submission deadline Jul 25, 2011
Paper acceptance notification Sep 15, 2011
Camera ready copy due Oct 15, 2011
Tutorial/Workshop proposals due Aug 7, 2011
Tutorial acceptance notification Aug 16,2011
Lecture Materials for tutorial Nov 7, 2011
NLP Tools Contest registration
deadline Jul 21, 2011
Student Paper Competition
submission deadline Aug 7, 2011
8. COMMITTEES:
ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR
Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR
Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad
Sobha L, AU-KBC Centre, Chennai, India
TOOLS CONTEST CHAIR
Sobha L, AU-KBC Centre, Chennai, India (Chair)
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India (Co-Chair)
STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION CHAIR
Sriram Venkatapathy, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
ORGANIZING CHAIR
C N Krishnan, AU-KBC Centre, Chennai, India
9. CONTACT INFORMATION
ICON-2011 Secretariat
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, India
Ph: +91-40-6653 1333 Fax: +91-40-6653 1413
e-mail: icon2011@iiit.ac.in
www.iiit.ac.in/icon2011
