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Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 1997 (NLPRS'97)
(Incorporating SNLP'97)
Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket, Thailand
http://www.links.nectec.or.th/NLPRS/nlprs.html
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December 2-4, 1997
OBJECTIVE
Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS), first
held in Singapore in November 1991 and subsequently in Fukuoka Japan,
December 1993; and in Seoul Korea, December 1995, aims to be the premier
Natural Language Processing (NLP) conference in the Pacific Rim region.
Its purpose is to promote high-quality research in NLP and to provide an
international forum for researchers and practioners to exchange ideas and
experiences on the development and applications of NLP systems. NLPRS'97
will incorporate Symposium on Natural Language Processing 1997 (SNLP'97),
an biannual international conference hosted by Thai universities.
Full papers, research-in-progress papers, and proposals for panels
or other activities pertaining to the conference are invited. Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to:
Corpus Dialogue Disambiguation & Resolution
Generation Information Retrieval
Interface & Multimedia Lexicon
Local Language Processing and Applications
Machine Translation Multilingual Information Processing
NLP Product Development Parsing
Semantics Speech Processing Understanding
LOCATION:
NLPRS'97 and SNLP'97 will be held at Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket, Thailand.
Phuket Island is a well-known resort in the southern part of
Thailand. It has an international airport and a number of direct flights from
various parts of the world.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: June 30, 1997
Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 1997
Camera-Ready Copy: September 30, 1997
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Papers should be original, unpublished, not more than 25 double-
spaced pages including a separate title page with each author's name,
title, affiliation, complete mailing address, email address, and
telephone and fax numbers.
Panel and other proposals should include the names and affiliations
of the individuals who have agreed to participate and a 1-2 page summary
of the topic, including a description of how the session will be structured.
These may be submitted early for feedback and assistance from the program
committee.
Research in progress submissions should be no longer than 2000
words in length.
All full papers received by the submission deadline will be
refereed by at least two reviewers. All papers presented at NLPRS'97
and SNLP'97 will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
Four hard-copies of all submissions should be sent to
Linguistics and Knowledge Science Laboratory
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
National Science and Technology Development Agency
73/1 Rama VI Rd., Rajtawe, Bangkok 10400.,
Thailand
(NLPRS'97)
We regret that we could not accept electronic submissions for now.
NLPRS'97 SUPPORTERS:
* Asian Institute of Technology
* Kasetsart University
* National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
* SIG-KLC of Korean Information Science Society (pending)
* The Association for Natural Language Processing
* SIG-NLP of Information Processing Society of Japan
* Telecom Asia (pending)
MAIN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Thajchayapong, Pairash
King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Lardkrabang
and National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Thailand
Organizing Committee:
Chair
Wuwongse, Vilas
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Vice-chair
Meknavin, Surapan
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand
Program Committee:
Chair: Tsujii, Jun'ichi (University of Tokyo, UMIST)
Vice-chair:
Kawtrakul, Asanee (Kasetsart University)
Niwa, Yoshiki (ARL, Hitachi, Ltd.)
Members:
Ananiadou, Sofia (Manchester Metropolitan University/UMIST)
Chen, Keh-Jiann (Academia Sinica)
Choi, Key-Sun (KAIST)
Dale, Robert (Microsoft Research Institute)
Estival, Dominique (University of Melbourne)
Fass, Dan (Simon Fraser University)
Furuse, Osamu (ATR)
Guo, Jin (National University of Singapore)
Hoonchamlong, Yuphaphann (Thammasat University)
Hovy, Eduard (USC Information Sciences Institute)
Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University)
Huang, Chu-Ren (Academia Sinica)
Isabelle, Pierre (Centre for Information Technology Innovation)
Isahara, Hitoshi (Communications Research Laboratory, MPT)
Joshi, Aravind (University of Pennsylvania)
Kurohashi, Sadao (Kyoto University)
Kwon, Hyuk-Chul (Pusan National University)
Lee, Jong-Hyeok (Pohang Univ. of Science & Technology)
Lua, Kim-Teng (National University of Singapore)
Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn (Chulalongkorn University)
Myaeng, Sung H. (Chungnam National University)
Nakagawa, Hiroshi (Yokohama National University)
Nishino, Fumihito (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)
Peters, Stanley (Stanford University)
Popowich, Fred (Simon Fraser University)
Rim, Hae-Chang (Korea University)
Rivepiboon, Wanchai (Chulalongkorn University)
Sangal, Rajeev (University of Hyderabad)
Seo, Jungyun (Sogang University)
Su, Keh-Yih (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
T'sou, Benjamin K. (City University of Hong Kong)
Takeda, Koichi (Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research)
Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Utsuro, Takehito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Wang, Yong Cheng (Shanghai JiaoTong University)
Yao, Tian-Shun (Northeastern University)
Yasukawa, Hideki (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.)
Yoshimura, Kenji (Fukuoka University)
Yu, Shiwen (Peking University)
Yusoff, Zaharin (School of Computer Science and UTMK, USM)
Yusuf, Hammam Riza (BPP Teknologi)
Local Arrangements:
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Thailand
WWW Facilities:
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Thailand
URL: http://www.links.nectec.or.th/NLPRS/nlprs.html
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