[Corpora-List] IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.6

From: Eiko Yamamoto (eiko@crl.go.jp)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 09:49:17 MET

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    *********** IJCNLP-04 Newsletter No.6 (25th of Feb. 2004)***************

    The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
            organized by the Asia Federation of NLP associations (AFNLP)

    Website:
        http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04
        http://www.colips.org/conference/ijcnlp04/ (mirror site in Singapore)
        http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/ijcnlp04 (mirror site at USC)
        http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/

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    [Date]
          Main Conference: March 22, 23 and 24, 2004
          Workshops/symposium: March 21,25 and 26, 2004

    [Venue]
          Resort Golden Palm http://www.resortgp.com.cn/
          Sanya, Hainan island, China
          ***Land's End - Hainan is so remote on the sea that ancient people,
             while believing that earth is square, really thought it is where
             the land ends***
          http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/

    [Sponsoring Organizations]

    Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan (ANLP), Tokyo
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia
    Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
      Processing (ACLCLP), Taipei
    Korea NLP society, Seoul
    Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC), Beijing
    (more to be added)

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    This issue contains

    [1] Conference Registration
    [2] Special Events
    [3] Cancellation of Workshop on Summarization
    [4] Visa Application
    [5] Conference Program
    [6] Airport Pickup Service
    [7] Social Programs

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    [1] Conference Registration

    << Register early to prevent the higher on-site fee on or before 10
       March 2004!! >>

    The registration site for non-PRC participants is now open.
    Participants can register for the main conference (with tutorials and
    workshops) and/or the satellite symposium at
      http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04/registration.htm.
    Accommodation can also be booked simultaneously.

    PRC participants should register via the local organising committee
    (please refer to http://www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04/).

    Enquiries on registration can be directed to
      ijcnlp04.enquiry@cityu.edu.hk.

    [2] Special Events

    We are planning to have several special events during the conference
    (see following), which will be open to the conference participants.

    Opening Address
      Prof. Makoto Nagao

    Invited academic talks by
      Prof. Mark Johnson
        Probabilistic Models for Rich Linguistic Information
      Prof. Ching-Chun Hsieh
        The Impact of Information Technology on Communication and Linguistics
      Prof. Hans Uszkoreit
        Language Technology for E-Memory Applications

    Panel discussions on
      Emerging Asian Language Processing Efforts
      Multilingual NLP for Public Information Services
                                      (2008 Digital Olympics)

    [3] Cancellation of Workshop on Summarization

    The Workshop on "Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering
    -Towards Systematizing and Automatic Evaluation" (W2) has to be
    cancelled unfortunately, due to technical and operational reasons.
    Participants who have registered for the workshop are welcome to
    transfer the registration to another workshop instead. Please contact
    ijcnlp04.enquiry@cityu.edu.hk to indicate your choice by 29 February
    2004.

    [4] Visa Application

    Conference participants are reminded to make sure that they obtain
    the necessary visa to enter China in good time. Visa information is
    available at http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04/travel.htm. Those
    who require a letter from China for the application of visa, please
    kindly send an email to yangke@admin.iscas.ac.cn of the local
    organising committee, giving them your name, affiliation, profession,
    nationality, passport number, fax number, and corresponding
    address. They will prepare the necessary document
    for you.

    [5] Conference Program

    The preliminary conference program is posted at
      http://www.rcl.cityu.edu.hk/ijcnlp04/prelimprogram.htm.
    A pdf version is also available for download. Each oral paper will
    have a 25-minute slot (about 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes
    for Q&A). LCD projectors and PCs will be available for presentation.
    Each poster paper will have a board (dimensions TBC) to display the
    presentation materials.

    [6] Airport Pickup Service

    Transportation can be arranged between the airport and the conference
    hotel. A return trip (airport >> hotel >> airport) costs RMB 60. (For
    information, a normal one-way trip by taxi costs about RMB 120.)
    Registered participants are asked to send their flight details to
    yangke@admin.iscas.ac.cn of the local organising committee as soon as
    possible, should they require the service.

    [7] Social Programs

    A welcome reception will be held at the conference hotel (Resort
    Golden Palm) in the evening of 21 March 2004. The conference banquet
    will take place on 22 March 2004. An optional half-day excursion is
    included in the conference package in the afternoon of 23 March 2004.
    Information on other tour options will be provided at the registration
    desk.
    Please check out the details and sign up at the registration desk when
    you arrive at the conference site.

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