NLPRS-99
5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium
Beijing, China
November 5-7, 1999
"Closing the Millennium"
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NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research
efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily
among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating
a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever
before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering
topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion
before the next century. The papers must be original and address
unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics.
TOPICS
The conference papers may represent technical works in all areas of
computational linguistics. The following categories are illustrative only.
Do not hesitate to send your papers even if you think that the area of your
paper is not exactly covered by the categories below.
General Categories
morphology
syntax
discourse
generation
anaphora resolution
lexical semantics
machine translation
dialogue
bilingual alignment
statistical parsing
Linguistic Data
lexical acquisition
corpus analysis
Applications
applied NLP systems
parallel implementations
Thematic topics
millennium view/experiences from large projects
internet
THEMATIC SESSION and PANEL DISCUSSION :
THE MILLENNIUM: FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
NLPRS is considering organizing a millennium session and a panel
discussion on the issues and thoughts of what we have achieved and
what we may achieve over the fifty years of Computational Linguistics.
For instance, historical landmarks with positive influence on the
solutions of linguistic issues may need to be reinterpreted. What
would be the implication of achievements so far? On this topic,
NLPRS would like to encourage the submission of related papers.
In particular, government officials and scholars who created,
funded, and managed large-scale NLP projects are strongly urged
to join this panel discussion. The panel meeting will provide a
timely occasion to discuss successes and failures of large projects.
Those who wish to join the panel discussion on the topics stated
above are kindly requested to compile an email application with
a brief note of the opinion statement to the following address.
THEMATIC SESSION :
LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE INTERNET
One of the key terms opening the next century will be the Internet.
Linguistic ideas may need to be recast into internet primitives.
NLPRS99 plans to organize a session devoted to related themes;
papers addressing the following themes are welcome:
- internet applications of NLP systems:
computational models as well as case studies
- general topics on group works:
linguistic or non linguistic algorithms that foster group
communications
CONFERENCE Chair:
Huang, Changning Tsinghua University, China
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair:
Cao, Youqi Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair:
Choi, Key-Sun KAIST, Korea
Vice-Chairs:
Yu, Shiwen Peking University, China
Han, Young S. Suwon University, Korea
Members:
Ananiadou, Sofia UMIST, Manchester
Boitet, Christian CLIPS-GETA, France
Bond, Francis NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Chen, Keh-Jiann Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Church, Kenneth W. AT&T Labs, USA
Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute, USA
Dong, Zhendong China Information Processing Society, China
Estival, Dominique Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia
Hasida, Koiti Electrotechnical Lab, Japan
Hausser, Roland University of Erlangen, Gemany
Hideki, Kashioka ATR, Japan
Hovy, Eduard USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Huang, Chu-Ren Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Isahara, Hitoshi Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
Joshi, Aravind K. University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kando, Noriko NACSIS, Japan
Kikui, Gen-ichiro NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories,
Japan
Kim, Yeunbae NHK, Japan
Kurohashi, Sadao Kyoto University, Japan
Kwon, Hyuk-Chul Pusan National University, Korea
Lee, Jong-Hyeok Pohang University, Korea
Leong, Munkew Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
Li, Sheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Lua, Kim-Teng National University of Singapore, Singapore
Meknavin Surapan NECTEC, Thailand
Mitkov, Ruslan University of Wolverhampton, UK
Myaeng, Sung Hyon Chungnam National University, Korea
Nishino, Fumihito Fujitsu Labs, Japan
Niwa, Yoshiki ARL Hitachi, Japan
Park, Seyoung ETRI, Korea
Rim, Hae-Chang Korea University, Korea
Sangal, Rajeev Indian Institute of Information Technology, India
Seo, Jungyun Sogang University, Korea
Su, Keh-Yih Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Takeda, Koichi IBM Tokyo Labs, Japan
Tokunaga, Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Tsujii, Jun'ichi UMIST, Manchester
T'sou, Benjamin K. City University of Hong Kong
Uszkoreit, Hans University of Saarbruecken, Germany
Utsuro, Takehito Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Wu, Dekai HKUST Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong
Wuwongse, Vilas Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Yao, Tian-Shun Northeastern University, China
Yoshimura, Kenji Fukuoka University,Japan
Yusoff, Zaharin University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Zhang, Pu Beijing Language & Culture University, China
Zhou, Ming Tsinghua University, China
Zock, Michael Langage & Cognition LIMSI-CNRS, France
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should describe unique and completed work. When submitting
papers, authors must specify the category of the presentation: regular
paper, project paper, or poster paper. If a regular paper is intended
for the thematic sessions, the author is asked to indicate so by
choosing one of the two themes: millennium session or internet session.
In particular if the paper is intended for the millennium session, the
paper may length more than 3000 words constraints.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers should not contain more than 3200 words except millennium papers.
The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information,
paper length in words, the thematic session (if appropriate), and up to
10 keywords in both English and the author's native language. The main
pages should not contain the author information. Four hard copies of the
original paper must be sent directly to the following address :
NLPRS-99 Submission
Prof. Key-Sun Choi
Department of Computer Science
KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu
Taejon 305-701 Korea
TEL +82-42-869-3565
FAX +82-42-867-3565
Hard copy submissions are strongly recommended, but for the authors
who cannot make hard copy submissions, the file format must be readily
browsable and printable in ps, html, or pdf. Electronic submissions
should be made to the following address:
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions Deadline June 1, 1999
Notification of acceptance August 1, 1999
Camera ready paper September 1, 1999
Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99