NLPRS'99 Workshop 

                          MAL'99

Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing 

            Beijing, China, November 5, 1999

                                                 

                  --  Call for Papers  --

           Summary submission due : October 12
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The recent information society has been evolved into the state 
of multi-lingual communication and broadcasting. However, the 
theoretical and empirical research and development has not been 
fully flourished toward the customer-oriented product. The
knowledge about multi-lingual communication has not yet been 
fully discovered and furthermore, the knowledge about Asian 
language processing is too weak to understand the neighboring 
countries' languages even inside of the Asian countries. Here, 
the each country's language processing has to be introduced to 
other language users for their language resources, experiences 
and theoretical achievements. Although the characteristics
among Asian languages are more similar than those of European 
languages, the chance of this discussion has been very few.

This workshop will solicit papers from the academic sectors as 
well as from the commercial sectors, in order to know what are 
achievements of researchers and what are problems of information 
industry. Standardization efforts of markup languages are one 
of important issues for the advanced intelligent language 
processing. Moreover, the test suites for each language and 
information processing areas are invited to be presented.

All submissions are welcomed in all area of NLP topics and 
the partial lists of topics are as follows but not limited to: 

  - characteristics of each language processing
  - standards of tag set for language resources and application
  - test suite of language processing, e.g., IR, MT, summarization
  - industrial application of Asian language processing and 
    multi-lingual information handling
  - multi-lingual indexing and keyword extraction
  - data and information structure of Asian languages
  - multi-lingualism in broadcasting and public affairs
  - computer-based language teaching
  - localization of language products
  - machine translation 
  - cross-lingual information retrieval

The workshop review and acceptance will be based on a two-page 
extended summary (2000 words or less). The summary must be 
accompanied by its title and author information including full 
names, affiliations of all authors and the postal mailing 
address and email of the corresponding author. "Software 
demonstration" is also very much encouraged.

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== IMPORTANT DATES ==

   - Summary submission due:  October 12
   - Notification of acceptance: October 16
   - Camera ready papers or presentation materials due: October 22
   - Inquires concerning the workshop can be sent to one of 
     the organizers by 
        * email to [log in to unmask]
        * fax to +82-42-867-3565 (forward to: NLPRS99 MAL Workshop)
        * Dr. Young-Soog Chae 
          KORTERM, Department of Computer Science
          Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
          373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701
          Korea





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