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                                  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

          The 7th  Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR2009)

                                               6-7 August 2009

                Singapore International Convention & Exhibition  Centre,
                                         Suntec City, Singapore

(AN OFFICIAL  ACL-IJCNLP 2009 WORKSHOP, http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/workshops.html )


Description

Language resources play an important role as corpus-based, stochastic, and learning approaches are introduced to natural language processing research. Many research units put great efforts on developing corpora for their particular purpose, and some even focus on compiling various kinds of language resources. Asia, the land of language variation, are suffering from the shortage of sharing the resource and cross language problem solving experience. There are several reports referring to the success of constructing and using corpora in many dimensions. But however, there are few efforts in establishing common formats or frameworks for handling these languages. The re-organizing the existing resources and finding for the guideline in corpus development become significant issue in the current research. The workshop is organised under the Asian Language Resources Committee (ALRC) of AFNLP aiming at the following goals.

  * To investigate the situation of Asian Language Resources, and to
    make a catalog of the result of this investigation
  * To investigate and discuss the problems related to the standards
    and specification on creating and sharing various levels of
    language resources
  * To promote communications between developers and users of various
    language resources in order to fill the gap between language
    resources and practical applications
  * To introduce the status of Asian language resources to researchers
    in other regions

To achieve these goals, we call for the technical (and non-technical) papers concerning, but not limited to the following issues.

  * Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
  * Meta data for resource classification and discovery
  * Exchange and annotation schemata
  * Exchange formats
  * Standards or specifications for language resources
  * Standards or specifications for content management
  * Language resources for basic NLP tasks (such as word segmentation,
    named entity recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis,
    discourse analysis, speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc.)
  * Language Resources for HLT applications (such as information
    retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine
    translation, speech translation, etc.)
  * Text corpora, speech corpora
  * Lexicons
  * Grammars
  * Machine-readable dictionaries
  * Ontology
  * Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation
  * Strategies for collaboration with international/regional public
    orgnizations, such as UNESCO, ACCU, etc.
  * Licensing and copyright issues


Important Dates

Paper submission due     8 May, 2009 [extended]
Demo session requests due     8 May, 2009
Notification of acceptance     1 June, 2009
Camera-ready papers due     7 June, 2009
ACL-IJNLP 2009 Workshops     6-7 August, 2009


Submission Information

Submissions must describe substantial, original, and unpublished work. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Full papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages in total (references included) and will be presented orally. The deadline for paper submission is May 8, 2009 (GMT + 8) [extended].
The official style files for ACL/IJCNLP 2009 are available at:
http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/authors/stylefiles/.
The workshop submissions should use the same formatting guidelines. As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
Submission is electronic using paper submission software at:
https://www.softconf.com/acl-ijcnlp09/ALR/

Program Committee

  * Hammam Riza (co-chair) - IPTEKnet-BPPT, Indonesia
  * Virach Sornlertlamvanich (co-chair) - NECTEC, Thailand
  * Pushpak Bhattacharyya - IIT-Bombay, India
  * Thatsanee Charoenporn - NECTEC, Thailand
  * Key-Sun Choi - KAIST, Korea
  * Chu-Ren Huang - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and
    Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  * Sarmad Hussain - National University of Computer & Emerging
    Sciences, Pakistan
  * Hitoshi Isahara - NICT, Japan
  * Shuichi Itahashi - NII, Japan
  * Lin-Shan Lee - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  * Haizhou Li - I2R, Singapore
  * Chi Mai Luong- Institute of Information Technology, Vietnamese
    Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
  * Yoshiki Mikami - Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
  * Sakrange Turance Nandasara - University of Colombo School of
    Computing, Sri Lanka
  * Thein Oo - Myanmar Computer Federation, Myanmar
  * Phonpasit Phissamay - NAST, Lao PDR
  * Oskar Riandi - ICT Center-BPPT, Indonesia
  * Rachel Edita O Roxas - De La Salle University, Philippines
  * Kiyoaki Shirai - JAIST, Japan
  * Myint Myint Than - Myanmar Computer Federation, Myanmar
  * Takenobu Tokunaga - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  * Chiuyu Tseng - Academia Sinica - Taiwan
  * Chai Wutiwiwatchai - NECTEC, Thailand

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