ICON-2011: Ninth INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

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Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research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