15-16 October, 1998
Organized by, and to be held at:
Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)
Singapore
(Note: KRDL is a new Research Institute incorporating the former
Kent Ridge Digital Labs and the Information Technology Institute)
In cooperation with:
ACM SIGIR (pending)
ACM Hong Kong Chapter
SIG-NLP, Information Processing Society of Japan
SIG-DBS, Information Processing Society of Japan
Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing
Association for Computational Linguistics and
Chinese Language Processing, Taiwan
Singapore Computer Society
URL: http://sdmc.krdl.org.sg/IRAL98
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The purpose of the IRAL workshop is to bring together researchers and
developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting
results in the field of information retrieval (IR), with an emphasis
on the issues related to Asian languages and multilingual applications.
The first International Workshop was held with the name "Information
Retrieval with Oriental Languages" in 1996, in Taejon, Korea, and the
second, renamed as "Information Retrieval with Asian Languages" to
increase the scope, was held in Tsukuba City in Japan in 1997.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUITORS
Papers (4 hardcopies) should be submitted in English only to the
Program Chair of the 3rd International Workshop as follows:
Dr. Mun-Kew Leong
(IRAL'98 submission)
Kent Ridge Digital Labs
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
Email: mkleong@krdl.org.sg
Electronic submissions WILL NOT be supported because of the difficulty
of printing different language fonts.
Papers should be at most 5000 words in length, and should be
double-spaced.
The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of no
more than 100 words, and no indication about the author(s) and
affliation(s).
In addition, authors must attach a separate page with the title, the
author name(s) and respective affiliations, plus complete contact
information (mailing address, telephone, fax, email) for the author
to whom correspondence should be sent. Email will be the default means
of communication.
IMPORTANT DATES
15 May 1998: The deadline for receipt of papers (4 hardcopies)
13 Jul 1998: Notification of result to authors (by email)
7 Aug 1998: Final manuscript due in camera ready format
LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP
Kent Ridge Digital Labs
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613
Please see web site: http://sdmc.iss.nus.sg/IRAL98 for details. Note
that KRDL was formerly the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (ISS) and is
located within the National University of Singapore.
REGISTRATION FEE
Regular: US$100, Full-time student (with student-id): US$50
Both the regular and student registration include a copy of the workshop
proceedings as well as lunch on both days, tea-breaks, and the Workshop
Welcome Reception. Registration and payment information will be
announced
later, and can also be found on the workshop web site.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
Overall Chair: Hwee-Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Workshop Organizing Committee:
Mun-Kew Leong (program chair), Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Christopher Khoo (publicity), Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
K. Rajaraman, Information Technology Institute, Singapore
Victorine Chen-Toh (logistics), Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Workshop Steering Committee:
Tetsuya Ishikawa, University of Library and Information Science, Japan
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University, Hong Kong
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Mun-Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Program Committee:
Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
Jun-ichi Aoe, University of Tokushima, Japan
Christopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ling Cao, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Schubert Foo, National Technological University, Singapore
Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, CUNY, USA
Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Pusan National University, Korea
Dik L. Lee, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Gun-Bae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Joon-Ho Lee, Soonsil University, Korea
Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Labs, Japan
Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yokohama National University, Japan
Yasushi Ogawa, Ricoh Labs, Japan
K. Rajaraman, Information Technology Institute, Singapore
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea
Dong-Wook Shin, Chungnam National Univ, Korea
Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Sam-Yuan Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Mei-Mei Wu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Xiling Zhou, Beijing Information Technology Institute, China