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I C O N - 2007
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
IIIT Hyderabad, India
4 - 6 January 2007


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - 1


International Conference on Natural Language
Processing (ICON)
will be held at IIIT, Hyderabad, India during 4 - 6
January, 2007.
The main conference will be held on 4 - 5 January 2007
followed by
tutorial on 6 January. 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.

ICON-2007 is a colocated event with the Twentieth
International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07).
IJCAI-07 will be held
in Hyderabad, India from 6 - 12 January, 2007. A
number of NLP related
workshops and tutorials are part of IJCAI-07 along
with NLP sessions in
main conference. Participants who attend ICON-2007
Conference will be
given a special package to attend IJCAI-07. Please see
below under
registration details and also visit www.ijcai-07.org
for more
information.


KEYNOTE LECTURES:
----------------

There will be four keynote lectures in the conference
besides the technical
program of contributed papers. Please visit
http://ltrc.iiit.net/icon2007/kl.php for more details.

"Anusaaraka: An approach to Machine Translation"
Akshar Bharati, Vineet Chaitanya1 and Amba
Kulkarni2,
1Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, 2University of
Hyderabad, India

"On Estimating Probability Mass Functions from Small
Samples"
Prof Sanjeev Khudanpur, The Johns Hopkins
University, USA

"Towards Word Sense Disambiguation in the Large"
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore,
Singapore

"The Semantic Quilt: Contexts, Co-occurrences,
Kernels, and Ontologies"
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, USA


TECHNICAL SESSIONS:
-------------------

After rigorous international refereeing process, the
following papers
have been selected for presentation at the conference.

* Building Feature Rich POS Tagger for
Morphologically Rich Languages:
Experiences in Hindi
Aniket Dalal, Kumar Nagaraj, Uma Sawant,
Sandeep Shelke, Pushpak
Bhattacharyya

* Unsupervised Morphological Learning for Bangla
Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng

* Chinese Terminology Extraction Using
Window-based Contextual
Information
Luning Ji, Mantai Sum, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li,
Yirong Chen

* An Evaluation Framework based on Gold Standard
Models for Definition
Question Answering
Samir Kanaan, Jordi Turmo

* INGIT: Limited Domain Formulaic Translation from
Hindi to Indian Sign
Language
Purushottam Kar, Madhusudan Reddy, Amitabha
Mukerjee, Achla M Raina

* Pause Prediction from Lexical and Syntax
Information
Venkatesh Keri, Sathish Chandra Pammi,
Kishore Prahallad

* Semantically Relatable Sequences in the Context
of Interlingua Based
Machine Translation
Rajat Kumar Mohanty, M. Krishna Prasad,
Lakshmi Narayanaswamy,
Pushpak Bhattacharyya

* Grounded Acquisition of Containment Prepositions
Amitabha Mukerjee, Mausoom Sarkar

* Some Issues in Automatic Evaluation of
English-Hindi MT: more blues
for BLEU
Ananthakrishnan R, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, M.
Sasikumar, Ritesh Shah

* JIRS Language-Independent Passage Retrieval
System A Comparative Study
José M. Gómez, Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
and Emilio
Sanchis-Arnal


POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
---------------------

* A Hybrid Approach to Example based Machine
Translation for Indian
Languages
Vamshi Ambati, Rohini. U

* Error-tolerant Finite-state Recognizer and
String Pattern Similarity
Based Spelling-Checker for Bangla
Munshi Asadullah, Md. Zahurul Islam, Mumit
Khan

* Lexical Pattern Learning from Corpus Data for
Named entity recognition
Asif Ekbal, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay,

* Duration Analysis for Malayalam Text to speech
Systems
Deepa P. Gopinath, Sheeba P.S, Achuthsankar
S. Nair

* A Morphological Analyzer for Sinhala Language
B. Hettige, A. S. Karunananda

* Access to Cultural Event Information via NL
Leonardo Lesmo, Livio Robaldo

* SenseNet: A Linguistic Tool to visualize
numerical-valence Based
Sentiment of Textual Data
Shaikh Mostafa Al Masum, Helmut Prendinger,
Mitsuru Ishizuka

* Social Network Analysis of Natural Language Text
Delip Rao, Deepak Khemani

* A Standardized General X-bar Rule Schemata
Manjeet Singh, A.K. Sharma

* A Corpus-based approach for noun phrase parsing
Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

POST-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL:
-------------------------

There will be one full day tutorial on 6 Jan 2007. For
more details,
please visit http://ltrc.iiit.net/icon2007/pct.php

6 Jan 2007 (10:00 am - 5:00 pm):

Tutorial : XLE and XFR: A Grammar Development
Platform with a
Parser/Generator and Rewrite
System.

Speakers : Miriam Butt, Universitaet
Konstanz, Germany
Tracy Holloway King, Palo Alto
Research Center, USA


STUDENT PAPER CONTEST:
----------------------

Selected papers based on original work will be
presented for the final
round of evaluation in the following two tracks:

Track I: Natural Language Processing

Track II: Speech Synthesis and Speech
Recognition.

Prizes will be awarded in each track for a total
of two papers.


REGISTRATION DETAILS:

REGISTRATION DETAILS FOR ICON-2007:
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Affiliation | Early registration |
Registration | Onsite
| by Dec 3, 2006 | by 31 Dec,
2006 | Registration
| |
| (available only
| |
| if seats left
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Not-for-profit R&D | INR 2000/US$ 100. | INR
2400/US$ 120. |INR 3000/US$ 150
and Educational | |
|
Institutions | |
|
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Other Institutions/ | INR 4000/US$ 140. | INR
4800/US$ 170. |INR 6000/US$ 210
Industry | |
|
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Full time students$ | INR 1000/US$ 50. | INR
1200/US$ 60. |INR 1500/US$ 75.
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SPECIAL PACKAGE FOR ICON-2007 PARTICIPANTS TO ATTEND
IJCAI-07:
--------------------------------------------------------------
For delegates attending ICON-2007, there is a special
package, by which
they can attend three associated pre-conference
workshops and tutorials
(in whatever combination), the opening inauguration
and the first day of
IJCAI-07 main conferenceby paying a highly reduced
rate:

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Affiliation | Early registration |
Registration | Onsite
| by Dec 3, 2006 | by 31 Dec,
2006 | Registration
| |
| (available only
| |
| if seats left)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-
Not-for-profit R&D | INR 6000/US$ 150. | INR
7200/US$ 180. |INR 9000/US$ 225
and Educational | |
|
Institutions | |
|
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-
Other Institutions/ | INR 12000/US$ 300. | INR
14400/US$ 360.|INR 18000/US$ 450
Industry | |
|
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Full time students$ | INR 3000/US$ 75. | INR
3600/US$ 90. |INR 4500/US$ 115.
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$Please note that student rates are only applicable to
participants who will
have full-time student status on 01 August 2006. A
letter verifying this status
must accompany all registration forms. Letters must be
signed by either a
supervisor or head of department. If you register via
the website a letter
verifying student status must be sent by hard copy to
the ICON-2007 Secretariat
and must be carried in person and presented at the
time of collecting the
registration kit. Please visit conference site more
details
http://ltrc.iiit.net/icon2007/registration.php


TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS:
---------------------------

A limited number of students can be supported for
travel within India under a
grant from CIIL, Mysore. Kindly send your applications
by December 5, 2006 to
<icon2007@...>.

For any clarification, please contact
icon2007@...

CONFERENCE VENUE:
-----------------
IIIT Hyderabad, India
http://www.iiit.ac.in/institute/location.php

TUTORIAL VENUE:
---------------
IIIT Hyderabad, India
http://www.iiit.ac.in/institute/location.php

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