ICON-2005

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
IIT Kanpur, India
18 - 20 December 2005

Organized by
NLP Association, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) will be held in IIT, Kanpur, India during 18-20 December, 2005.  The conference series is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad.

 

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Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India.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:

 

Annotated Corpora                        Performance Evaluation

Discourse                                       Information Retrieval

Knowledge-based methods            Dialog Systems

Lexical Resources                           Speech corpora

Morphology                                   POS tagging

Ontology                                        Text to Speech

Phonology                                      Parsing

Pragmatics                                      Text Summarization

Propbank/Framenet                        Speech Recognition

Semantics                                       Machine Translation

Statistical methods              Question Answering

Syntax                                            Word Sense Disambiguation

 

2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION

Submissions in English, not exceeding 5000 words (including figures and references), should be submitted under the link on the webpage.  Under special circumstances, you may also send hard copy (four copies).  Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200 words. Papers outside the specified length are subject to rejection without review.

 

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 (http://www.ltrc.iiit.net/icon2005).

 

3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS

Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be of half-day or full-day duration and will be held on December 18, 2005. 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.

 

Send papers and tutorial proposals to the ICON-2005 Secretariat. For further information, please refer to the online submission link or contact the ICON-2005 Secretariat.


4. NLP TOOLS CONTEST: INFORMATION EXTRACTION

An information extraction (IE) contest will be held during ICON-2005 for English and Hindi. The purpose of the contest is to encourage research groups as well as individuals to work on modular, portable, information extraction tools and systems. A domain will be announced in advance and a surprise sub-domain will be announced a month before the conference. The contest will test participating systems in the general domain category as well as the sub-domain category. Sample input-output data sets, information extraction templates (schema) will be released along with the announcement of domains. Test data will be released during the contest period. The detailed guidelines will be issued separately. To enter the contest, submit your name, organization name (if applicable), language of choice (English, Hindi or both) to the contest chair (icon05tools@iiit.ac.in).

 

5. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES

 

ICON-2005 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:

 

Track I

NLP (All areas)

 

Track II

Speech Synthesis

Speech Recognition

Handwriting Recognition

 

Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out. The prizes are:                

 

FIRST PRIZE: Rs.10000/-                                                                     SECOND PRIZE: Rs.7500/-

 

The short listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in ICON-2005 conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. For any clarifications, contact Student Paper Competition Chair on icon05paper@iiit.ac.in.

 

6. IMPORTANT DATES

Paper registration deadline                                      Jul        07, 2005

Paper submission deadline                                      Jul        15, 2005

Paper acceptance notification                                              Sep      05, 2005

Camera ready copy due                                                      Oct      15, 2005

Tutorial proposals due                                                        Jul        30, 2005

Tutorials acceptance notification                                          Aug      15, 2005

Lecture Materials for tutorial                                               Nov     25, 2005

NLP Tools Contest registration deadline                             Jul        20, 2005

Student Paper Competition submission deadline                  Aug      15, 2005


7. COMMITTEES

 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Aravind K Joshi         University of Pennsylvania, USA (Chair)

Benjamin K Tsou       City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Eduard Hovy USC Information Sciences Institute, USA

Jun-ichi Tsujii University of Tokyo, Japan

Mriganka Sur            Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Rao P V S                 Tata Infotech, Mumbai, India

Yegnanarayana B      IIT, Madras, India

 

CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR

Rajeev Sangal            IIIT, Hyderabad, India

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Amitabha Mukerjee               IIT, Kanpur, India (Chair)

Achla M Raina                      IIT, Kanpur, India

Adam Kilgariff                       University of Brighton, UK

Amba Kulkarni                      IIIT, Hyderabad, India

Anoop Sarkar                       Simon Fraser University, Canada

Christiane Fellbaum               Princeton University, USA

Dipti Misra Sharma                IIIT, Hyderabad, India

Hema A Murthy                    IIT, Madras, India

Inderjeet Mani                       NW Georgetown University Washington, USA

Jaime Carbonell                     Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Keh-Yih Su                           Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan

Key Sun Choi                        KAIST, Korea

Mallikarjun B             CIIL, Mysore, India

Patrick Saint-Dizier                IRIT-CNRS, France

Pushpak Bhattacharya           IIT, Bombay, India

Rajeev Sangal                        IIIT, Hyderabad, India

Samudravijaya K                   TIFR, Mumbai, India

Sinha R M K                         IIT, Kanpur, India

Srinivas B                              AT&T Research, USA

Sushama M Bendre               University of Hyderabad, India

Timothy Baldwin                    University of Melbourne, Australia

Udaya Narayana Singh          CIIL, Mysore, India

Vijay K Shanker                    University of Delaware, USA

STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION CHAIR

Sushama M Bendre               University of Hyderabad, India

 

TOOLS CONTEST CHAIR

Rohini K Srihari                     SUNY, Buffalo, USA

 

ORGANIZING CHAIRS

Achla M Raina                      IIT, Kanpur, India

R K Bagga                            IIIT, Hyderabad, India

 

8. CONTACT INFORMATION

ICON-2005 Secretariat

Language Technologies Research Centre

International Institute of Information Technology

Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, India

Ph: +91-40-2300 0646; Fax: +91-40-2300 1413

e-mail: icon2005@iiit.ac.in, URL: http://www.ltrc.iiit.net/icon2005