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From: Rajib Roy [mailto:rajibroy@...]
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:03 PM
To: O-COCOSDA2009

Importance: High

Respected Sir/Madam,
We are glad to inform you that, C-DAC; Kolkata is organizing an
International Workshop on Spoken Language Prosody (IWSLPR-09) at C-DAC,
Kolkata, India, during 25-27 November 2009.  The workshop was approved as an
ISCA supported event.  We are happy to request you to participate or depute
some researcher working with you/your organization in the above workshop.
The workshop brochure is enclosed for your kind reference.

If you have any query, please contact us

We are looking forward to see you in the Workshop

For further details Please visit our site

http://www.cdackolkata.in/IWSLPR-09/INDEX/index.html



With Highest regards,

Rajib Roy,
C-DAC,Kolkata,India
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Kolkata Plot-E2/1, Block-GP,
Sector-V, Saltlake, Kolkata-700091 Ph. 91-33-23579846/5989 Ext. 215
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Dear Sovathena,

I have tried to train tesseract with Khmer language.
It's just a trivial test of 3 characters.
So u might want to train it for the complete symbols.

here is the link:
http://vannait.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-train-tesseract-ocr.html

Cheers,
Kruy Vanna
GITS, Waseda University.


--- In PANLocalization@yahoogroups.com, "Rajesh Pandey" <pandey.com.np@...>
wrote:
>
> Dear Neth you are always welcome.
>
>
> On 6/10/08, Vathena <nethsovathena@...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Rajesh Pandey,
> >
> > Thanks for your guide to me.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > NETH Sovathena
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Rajesh Pandey <pandey.com.np@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Neth,
> >> I did a small research on Khmer language, installed Catalan Unicode for
> >> Khmer script and found out that the words don't seem to be segmented. Khmer
> >> characters seem quite similar to the Thai characters.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 1. Segmentation involves segmentation of whole document into lines.
> >> 2. Segmentation of lines into words.
> >> 3. Segmentation of words into characters.
> >>
> >> For most ocrs (eg: English OCR, Nepali OCR)
> >>
> >> They work in a top down approach to segment:
> >> *Document -> lines -> words-> characters*
> >>
> >> *For Khmer OCR*
> >> However it looks like you have to approach in this way:
> >> *Document -> lines -> characters*
> >>
> >>
> >> *Character segmentation:*
> >> You have some advantages over Nepali/Devanagari characters:
> >> You don't have to worry much about character segmentation, because Khmer
> >> characters seem to be already segmented.
> >> In our case we have to put an extra effort on segmenting characters
> >> because Nepali/Devanagari characters are joined together in a word.
> >>
> >> *Word segmentation:*
> >> My preliminary research shows that Khmer words are not segmented. Meaning
> >> I did not find spaces between the words. Rather found long sequence of
> >> characters and the whole sentence has a bunch of characters. The speakers
> >> have segmentation according to their syllable or so.
> >> So may be you need to add some more algorithms for word segmentation, or
> >> use a spellchecker and / or grammar checker at the end.
> >>
> >>
> >> The output will be pretty good because there are no spaces between the
> >> words. The input does not have any spaces, so there will not be any spaces
> >> in the output. I guess that will not be a problem.
> >>
> >> Initially you might think of giving a try with Tesseract ocr. I am sure
> >> you will get pretty good results once you have trained.
> >> The homepage for tesseract-ocr is http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr
> >> You might also subscribe to tesseract google groups :
> >> http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr
> >>
> >> Now good luck with training tesseract-ocr. I think after trying this once
> >> will bring a clear picture of an overall OCR.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In PANLocalization@yahoogroups.com, "Bal Krishna Bal"
> >> <balkrishna7bal@> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Dear Neth,
> >> > I have forwarded your email to the Nepali OCR Team and hopefully you
> >> will
> >> > receive a corresponding response very soon.
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Bal Krishna
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Vathena nethsovathena@ wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Dear All,
> >> > >
> >> > > My name is NETH Sovathena, a new Software Developer at PAN
> >> Localization
> >> > > Cambodia of IDRC.
> >> > > Now I am responsible for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) project.
> >> > >
> >> > > Now I write this email to all of you for asking some help.
> >> > >
> >> > > I am really difficult with my project--OCR. It is a complicated one
> >> for me
> >> > > while I am a new Software Developer and working with it.
> >> > > After I read any documents related to OCR, I have basic understanding
> >> and
> >> > > know the process of OCR such as Preprocessing, Segmentation, Feature
> >> > > Extraction, Recognition, and Post processing.
> >> > >
> >> > > Currently, I am doing on step " Understanding OCR ", and now focusing
> >> on
> >> > > SEGMENTATION. I try to find and search for Algorithm used for OCR, but
> >> I
> >> > > don't understand and do not find out any more documents and algorithm
> >> yet.
> >> > >
> >> > > Moreover, I do not understand each task that I need to do for this
> >> project
> >> > > such as:
> >> > >
> >> > > * Study OCR Framework
> >> > > * Document scope of OCR (font, sizes, styles, etc.)
> >> > > * Develop Segmentation Strategy
> >> > > * Develop Segmentation Module for Khmer in the frameworks
> >> > > * Test Segmentation Module
> >> > > * Prototype training Module
> >> > > * Collect Training and Test Data
> >> > > * Conduct Training
> >> > > * Conduct Testing
> >> > > * Post Processing
> >> > >
> >> > > etc.
> >> > >
> >> > > * If possible, I would like to ask you for any explanation or more
> >> useful
> >> > > resource for this project.
> >> > >
> >> > > Best regards,
> >> > >
> >> > > NETH Sovathena
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rajesh Pandey
> Researcher and Developer in Nepali OCR Project
> PAN Localization Project, Nepal
> Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya
> Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur
> Phone: 977-1-5521393, Fax: 977-1-5536390
>

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-----Original Message-----
From: P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan [mailto:evignesh@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:06 PM
To: Katie Gartner
Subject: Call for papers - ICTD - New Delhi -11&12 March - New Delhi

Dear All:
Apologies for cross posting.
Regards,
Vignesh.

http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/ICTD2010/

ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, &
Policy
11-12 March, 2010
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi
Sponsored by International Development Research Centre, Canada

Unpublished, original empirical papers are invited for the forthcoming
international workshop on ICTs and Development:
An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, & Policy to be
conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi,
India, during 11-12 March 2010.

The workshop aims to provide a forum for scholars to share their
empirical research with academic experts, policymakers, and
activists from the regional and international development community.
Papers should examine how mobile phones, computers, and the Internet
influence the empowerment of marginal individuals and communities,
including whether ICTs create and enhance livelihood opportunities for
people in the developing world.

Papers should be in the range of 5,000-8,000 words (including abstract
and bibliography) and should include a clear discussion of
the implications of the findings for development policy and/or practice.

No more than twelve papers will be selected by the workshop organizers
for presentation.The first author of each paper chosen will be given
air fare and lodging/meals.

The workshop is part of the project, ICTs and Urban Micro Enterprises:
Identifying and Maximizing Opportunities for Economic Development, and
is supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.

The organizers are committed to finding an appropriate publication
venue for all papers accepted for the workshop.

Deadlines:
Submission of manuscripts: 1st October 2009
Announcement of results: 1st December 2009
Submission of final version of the paper: 1st February 2010

For submission of manuscripts and other enquiries, please write to

ICTD2010@...

Workshop Organizers
Dr. P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan (IIT Delhi)
Prof. Mark R. Levy (Michigan State University)


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Dr. Samad,

We had successfully included Burmese Locale and Language Pack at OpenOffice.org
3.1 which is published officially on 7th May.

Although we had discussed a lot for providing support to those who work hard, it
was unfortunate for them to work on volunteer basis.

The main contributors are Keith Stribley of www.thanlwinsoft.org and Myo Aung.

Although Myanmar NLP or MCF got a lot of chance to host this project, I feel
sorry for them for not involving on this World's first ever official software
with Burmese Locale and Language pack.

I am still hopeful that PAN Localization can provide help on further
development.

With Best Regards,

Wunna

> K. David Harrison discusses how language death leads to intellectual
> impoverishment in all fields of science and culture. Watch as he
> details efforts to sustain, value and revitalize linguistic diversity
> worldwide.

http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=245


regards,
Sarmad


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From: www-voice-request@... [mailto:www-voice-request@...] On Behalf
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Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:56 PM
To: www-voice
Subject: AVIOS student programming contest: show off your VoiceXML skills

Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Today the Applied Voice Input/Output Society
(AVIOS) announced their fourth annual student speech application contest
sponsored by AT&T, Cepstral, I6Net, Loquendo, Microsoft, and Voxeo.
Applications must involve speech input and/or output, but may be pure
speech or multimodal. Cash and/or equipment prizes valued at over $1000
will be awarded to teams of student programmers who design and create
applications judged to be robust, useful, creative, innovative, and user
friendly.

The contest encourages students to develop applications using speech
technologies such as automatic speech recognition and text to speech
synthesis and to combine them with other modalities. This year, students
may use any of a variety of platforms including AT&T Speech Mashups,
Cepstral VoiceForge TTS service, CMU's RavenClaw/Olympus, Google
Android, I6net VXI*, Loquendo VoxNauta Platform, Lumenvox Speech
Engine Standard License, Opera, Voxeo Prophecy, and Voxeo Tropo.

Students anywhere in the world can submit their creative and innovative
applications to be judged by speech application experts. The contest
also provides a forum for students to show what they can do with the
power of speech applications  For more information and the contest entry
form, go to http://www.avios.org.




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From: Lua Kim Teng [mailto:luakt@...]
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:06 AM
To: sarmad.hussain@...
Subject: International Conference on Asian Languages Information Processing
IALP2009


IALP 2009 Call for Papers
International Conference on Asian Languages Processing 2009 (IALP2009)
Dec 7-9, 2009, Singapore
Jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing
Society (COLIPS)  and IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter (IEEE Singapore CC)
http://www.colips.org/conference/ialp2009
The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series
of conferences with unique focus on Asian Languages Processing. The
conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspect of
Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in different
fields of language studies all over the world to meet. The first meeting of
IALP held in Singapore in 1986 and was called ICCC (International Conference
on Chinese Computing). This meeting initiated the studies of Chinese and
oriental languages processing in Singapore and resulted in the formation of
COLIPS in Singapore in 1988, and later, the publication of the journal
titled Journal of Chinese Language and Computing since 1991.

Last year, IALP 2008 was held in Chiang Mai University, Thailand and the
proceedings were indexed by ISTP/ISI. The IALP 2009 will be held in
Singapore and co-organized by COLIPS and IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter.
The proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS (Conference Publication
Services). IEEE CPS will submit it for indexing in EI, ISTP/ISI and Current
Contents on Diskette (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp)
Important Dates:
7 June 30, 2009     Paper submissions due
7 July 31, 2009     Paper notification of acceptance
7 Aug 31, 2009     Camera-ready full papers due and registration
7 Dec 7-9, 2009    Conference dates
Topics of interest:
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research in all
aspects of Asian Language Processing, including, but not limited to:
7 Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages
7 Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages
7 Asian character encoding and compression
7 Multimodal representations and processing
7 Voice input and output
7 Phonology and morphology
7 Lexical semantics and word sense
7 Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse
7 Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing
7 Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic
parsing
7 Discourse analysis
7 Language, linguistic and speech resource development
7 Evaluation methods and user studies
7 Machine learning for natural language
7 Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation
7 Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
7 Text entailment and paraphrasing
7 Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering
7 Machine translation and multilingual processing
7 Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language,
computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical
linguistics
7 Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language
processing and speech processing
7 Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and
translation
7 Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
7 Speech recognition and synthesis
7 Natural language applications, tools and resources, system
evaluation
7 Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language
learning
7 NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
7 NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS

7 Special hardware and software for Asian language computing
IALP2009 is now organized into 6 tracks:
1. Linguistics and Language Studies
2. Computational Linguistics
3. Language Information Processing (Information extraction, analysis
etc)
4. Language Technologies (Input, output, font, recognition, synthesis
etc)
5.  Computer-aided Language Learning
6. Machine Translation
Submissions:

Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be
included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the
attendees. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee
members. Accepted papers will be presented in one of the oral sessions or
poster sessions as determined by the program committee. Papers must be
written in English.
All submissions must be in PDF file only and are electronic using paper
submission software at:<https://www.softconf.com>.
Format:
Full paper submissions should follow the IEEE Proceedings' format without
exceeding six (6) pages including references.  We strongly recommend the use
of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this
year's conference according to IEEE Proceedings' format, which will be
available on the conference website soon. Submissions must conform to the
official style guidelines, and they must be electronic in PDF.
As the reviewing will be blind, manuscripts must not include the authors'
names and affiliations.  Authors should ensure that their identities are not
revealed in any way in the paper.  Papers that do not conform to these
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Dear Ruvan and everybody

Without waiting for script specific support from Adobe, by experimenting
a bit I have got Tibetan script working in InDesgn CS3 and above as
follows:

In an OpenType font I put a set of additional lookups under the
combination of "DFLT" script tag and "dflt" language tag. These
additional lookups use only 'generic' OpenType features (i.e. those used
in Adobe's Latin OT fonts) such as ccmp, rlig, liga, calt, kern. (the
init, medi, fina, mark & mkmk features probably also work since some
Adobe fonts use them - but I haven't tried these yet) - as well as the
regular set of lookups under the script specific set of features
Microsoft's Uniscribe uses.

In other words my Tibetan font now has two sets of lookups - one under
DFLT script tag and dflt language tag - the other set under tibt script
tag and dflt language tag.

The two sets of lookups are very similar even though the OT་་feature
sets are different. This required some experimentation and I had to
modify a few things in the font and include some additional ligatures to
get it to work. The key thing is that Adobe OpenType engine recognises
lookups under the DFLT script tag (must be capitalized) and applies them
irrespective of the Unicode range of the initial characters. MS
Uniscribe totally ignores features and lookups under the DFLT script tag
and applies script specific sets of features to specific Unicode ranges.

My guess is that one can get OpenType fonts for other complex scripts
working in InDesign and other Adobe apps like this - without waiting for
Adobe to add specific support your script.

Interestingly InDesign CS3 already recognises the correct line break
opportunities for Tibetan.

With best regards.

- Chris

Ruvan Weerasinghe wrote:
> We left this discussion sometime ago, but I thought let's start a
> community kind of pressure group for getting Complex Script support in
> Adobe.
>
> Please don't dismiss this as a fruitless exercise - let's try it!
>
> Here's the URL: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b54384
>
> You need to register - I did with my gmail address, but you seem to be
> able to even put fake address since there is no authentication. But
> maybe, just maybe, Adobe may reply me even if not in this public forum...
>
> Please do this - it takes 5 mins - and get others in the region to do so...
>
> Ruvan.

Dear Ruvan and everybody

Without waiting for script specific support from Adobe, by experimenting
a bit I have got Tibetan script working in InDesgn CS3 and above as
follows:

In an OpenType font I put a set of additional lookups under the
combination of "DFLT" script tag and "dflt" language tag. These
additional lookups use only 'generic' OpenType features (i.e. those used
in Adobe's Latin OT fonts) such as ccmp, rlig, liga, calt, kern. (the
init, medi, fina, mark & mkmk features probably also work since some
Adobe fonts use them - but I haven't tried these yet)  - as well as the
regular set of lookups under the script specific set of features
Microsoft's Uniscribe uses.

In other words my Tibetan font now has two sets of lookups - one under
DFLT script tag and dflt language tag - the other set under tibt script
tag and dflt language tag.

The two sets of lookups are very similar even though the OT་་feature
sets are different. This required some experimentation and I had to
modify a few things in the font and include some additional ligatures to
get it to work. The key thing is that Adobe OpenType engine recognises
lookups under the DFLT script tag (must be capitalized) and applies them
irrespective of the Unicode range of the initial characters. MS
Uniscribe totally ignores features and lookups under the DFLT script tag
and applies script specific sets of features to specific Unicode ranges.

My guess is that one can get OpenType fonts for other complex scripts
working in InDesign and other Adobe apps like this - without waiting for
Adobe to add specific support your script.

Interestingly InDesign CS3 already recognises the correct line break
opportunities for Tibetan.

With best regards.

- Chris

Ruvan Weerasinghe wrote:
> We left this discussion sometime ago, but I thought let's start a
> community kind of pressure group for getting Complex Script support in
> Adobe.
>
> Please don't dismiss this as a fruitless exercise - let's try it!
>
> Here's the URL: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b54384
>
> You need to register - I did with my gmail address, but you seem to be
> able to even put fake address since there is no authentication. But
> maybe, just maybe, Adobe may reply me even if not in this public forum...
>
> Please do this - it takes 5 mins - and get others in the region to do so...
>
> Ruvan.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lexical Resource Egroup [mailto:lr_egroup@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:13 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: ICON-2009 CFP: 7th International Conference on NLP

              ICON-2009: 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
                                    Hyderabad, India

                                 14 - 17 December 2009

                                     Organized by
                                 NLP Association, India
                    Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India
              International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,
India
                        University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India


                                 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The seventh International Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON
2009) will be held at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India during
14-17 December, 2009. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting
interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing
in India and abroad. This year ICON-2009 will be co-located with 31st All
India Conference of Linguistics (AICL31)

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:

         Morphology            Parsing
         Phonology            Word Sense Disambiguation
         Syntax                    Machine Translation
         Semantics 	           Information Retrieval
         Discourse 	           Text Summarization
         Pragmatics            Question Answering
         Statistical methods         Dialog Systems
         Knowledge-based methods     Performance Evaluation
         Annotated Corpora 	   Speech Corpora
         Lexical Resources 	   Speech Recognition
         Ontology 	           Speech Synthesis
         POS tagging

1.1 SPECIAL TRACK:
ICON-2009 will also have a separate track on Linguistic models in NLP.
Purely
theoretical papers in linguistics which have implications for computational
linguistics are also invited under this track.


2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION:
Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted at
www.iiit.ac.in/icon2009. One can also submit hard copy (four copies) under
special circumstances. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200
words. Papers outside the specified length are subject to rejection without
review. Please see the style file at
www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings/

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.

3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS:
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials/Workshops can
be
of half-day or full-day duration. 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 tutorial/Workshop proposals to the ICON-2009 Secretariat. For further
information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2009
Secretariat.

4. NLP TOOLS CONTEST: Parsing
Efficient Indian language (IL) parsing still remains an open problem. One
reason for this is the unavailability of annotated corpora to experiment.
This
contest aims to bring together researchers working/interested in the area of
IL
parsing to explore techniques that can improve the present accuracies, by
providing sufficient annotated data. This contest, however, will only focus
on
dependency parsing.

CONTEST:
Participants will be provided training, development and testing data to
report
the efficiency of their dependency parsers. Languages such as Hindi, Bangla,

Oriya, Marathi, etc. will be explored. Parser efficiency will be measured in

terms of standard measures such as Unlabelled attachment accuracy and
Labelled
attachment accuracy. Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques
and
results work in a special session at ICON. Note that it is not necessary
that
the participating parser be a statistical one, other types such as grammar
driven parsers or hybrid parsers can also participate.

The Contest will have two prizes :
     FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-
     SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-

Resources: To be Announced

5. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES:
ICON-2009 announces STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION in two tracks:
     Track I : NLP (All areas)
     Track II : Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)

Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be
awarded
in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out. The
prizes are::

     FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-
     SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-

The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a
special session in ICON-2009 conference. Registration, domestic travel and
subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one
author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships
at
major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact Student Paper
Competition Chair on icon09student@....

6. IMPORTANT DATES:
       Paper registration deadline Aug 1, 2009
       Paper submission deadline         Aug 1, 2009
       Paper acceptance notification Sep 15, 2009
       Camera ready copy due         Oct 20, 2009

       Tutorial/Workshop proposals due    Aug 7, 2009
       Tutorial acceptance notification   Aug 16, 2009
       Lecture Materials for tutorial Nov 15, 2009

       NLP Tools Contest registration
         deadline                         Jul 21, 2009
       Student Paper Competition
        submission deadline         Aug 7, 2009


7. COMMITTEES:

     ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIR
       Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA

     CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR
       Rajeev Sangal, IIIT, Hyderabad, India

     PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
       Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad
       Vasudeva Varma, IIIT, Hyderabad

     TOOLS CONTEST CHAIR
       Samar Husain, IIIT, Hyderabad

     STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION CHAIR
       Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT, Kharagpur

     ORGANIZING CHAIR
       R K Bagga, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
       Ashish Jacob Thomas, University of Hyderabad

8. CONTACT INFORMATION
     ICON-2009 Secretariat
     Language Technologies Research Centre
     International Institute of Information Technology
     Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, India
     Ph: +91-40-2300 1412; Fax: +91-40-6653 1413
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CALL FOR SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS
at the joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th
IJCNLP

Suntec, Singapore
August 2-7, 2009

http://isoft.postech.ac.kr/~hernus/acl_demo/

Deadline for submission: March 30, 2009

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The ACL-IJCNLP-09 Program Committee invites proposals for the
Demonstrations Program. We encourage both the submission of early
research prototypes and interesting mature systems. Commercial sales and
marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program,
and should be arranged as part of the Exhibit Program.


Areas of Interest

Areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and
applied computational linguistics, such as (but not limited to) the topics
listed for the conference paper submission:
http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/callforpapers.html

The systems may be of the following kinds:
* Natural Language Processing systems or system components
* Application systems using language technology components
* Software tools for computational linguistics resesarch
* Software for demonstration or evaluation
* Development tools


Format for Submissions

Demo proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to
the Demo Chairs. Please use the main ACL-IJCNLP paper
formatting guidelines.

* An extended abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated,
   including title, authors, full contact information, references, and
acknowledgements.

* A "script outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying
   narrative, and either a Web address for accessing the demo or visual
aids (e.g., screenshots, snapshots, or diagrams).

* A detailed description of the hardware, software and internet
   service requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer.

The entire proposal should not be more than four pages.


Submissions Procedure

The deadline for proposals is March 30, 2009. Submissions must be
received electronically. Please submit your proposals and any
inquiries to (both chairs):

Gary Geunbae Lee (gblee@...) and
Sabine Schulte im Walde (schulte@...)

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to
computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution,
presentation, as well as potential logistical constraints.

Accepted submissions will be allocated maximum four pages in the Companion
Volume to the Proceedings of the Conference.


Demonstrations Chairs

Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart)


Demonstrations Program Committee

Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Massimiliano Ciaramita (Google, Switzerland)
Sadao Kurohasi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Dekang Lin (Google, USA)
Jong Park (KAIST, Korea)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, USA)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Ming Zhou (MSRA, China)
Heike Zinsmeister (University of Konstanz, Germany)





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During the last few years, although the Computational Linguistics journal
has been a toll-access journal, we have endeavoured to make all published
papers freely available via the ACL Anthology at
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/ after a one-year embargo period.

Thanks to the support of the Association for Computational Linguistics, as
of January 1st 2009, the journal is now completely open access and
electronic only.  Articles may now be freely downloaded from the MIT Press
website at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/coli as soon as they are
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Dear Ruvan,
Thanks. I'm eager to do it. I talked to Quark team couple of months ago for getting complex script support in Quark. They replied me in such a way that they are not interested on it. Though everybody of us know about its importance but i want to add something to it. All of our print media use adobe products for publishing, specially Quark express. They need another cost to convert the data into unicode. That's why most of the publishing house don't convert their data into unicode. All of them keep their data in ASCII format which is not a good idea.
So everybody should talk about it to reduce this technological limitation. I don't think we have any better solution other than this.

Regards
Firoj

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From: Ruvan Weerasinghe <arw@...>
To: PANLocalization@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 16 January, 2009 11:41:25
Subject: [PAN Localization] Putting pressure on Adobe... the community way

We left this discussion sometime ago, but I thought let's start a community kind of pressure group for getting Complex Script support in Adobe.

Please don't dismiss this as a fruitless exercise - let's try it!

Here's the URL: http://www.adobefor ums.com/webx/ .59b54384

You need to register - I did with my gmail address, but you seem to be able to even put fake address since there is no authentication. But maybe, just maybe, Adobe may reply me even if not in this public forum...

Please do this - it takes 5 mins - and get others in the region to do so...

Ruvan.