CALL FOR PAPERS
Special
Session on
Language Understanding and Communication
 |
International Conference on Information Technology: April 5-7, 2004 Sponsored by IEEE computer Society www.itcc.info |
 |
Overview
The huge tide of economic globalization provides to the Natural Language Processing and Understanding Technology with great opportunities as well as severe challenges. Since the first word was uttered, people have searched for ways to communicate their ideas, thoughts, and opinions to others. Today, businesses are expanding their borders, becoming more global, as they seek out new markets and customer bases. With the pace of information transfer via fast PCs and networks, this goal becomes quite a challenge. Language Understanding and Communication have become increasingly important in recent years due to rapid advancements in the field of speech recognition, natural language processing, Multi-lingual Multi-function Multi-media intelligent systems, and knowledge engineering. This session serves as an international forum for academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to discuss the application of new computer technologies to languages understanding and communication. The main objective of this session is to bring together researchers to exchange ideas and experience related to the fields. It will provide an international forum for an overview of the most recent trends in the active research fields and a common starting-point to tackle the most acute problems of information processing and information technology.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Natural Language Understanding
Multi-lingual Multi-function Multi-media intelligent systems
Machine translation
Information retrieval
Spoken dialogue
Natural language interfaces
Information extraction
Text summarization
Adaptive interfaces
Terminology and ontologies
Lexical resources and corpora
Computer-assisted language learning
Speech modeling
Speech segmentation
Speech recognition
Text-to-speech synthesis
Document categorization
Natural language learning
WWW-based applications
E-commerce, education, entertainment
Knowledge representation
Text mining
Knowledge acquisition
Machine learning
Pattern recognition and automated scientific discovery
Soft computing and uncertainty management for data mining
Artificial intelligence
E-communication
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit papers describing in detail the original
contribution on the topics. Interested authors should send a draft paper,
formatted in the style ofIEEE Proceedings format, including keywords, and a cover page listing the name, affiliation, complete
address, telephone, e-mail, and facsimile information for the corresponding
author, before October 30, 2003, to the Session chair. Electronic submission
(PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged.
The Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. A special issue
of an international journal of Information is being planned consisting
of selected papers from the special session.
DEADLINES
|
Paper Submission Deadline |
|
|
Acceptance Notification |
December 19, 2003 |
|
Camera-Ready Paper due (5 pages) |
January 9, 2004 |
|
Conference |
April 5-7, 2004 |
Session Chair
Dept. of Information Science and Intelligent Systems
Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima
2-1 Minamijosanjima, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan
Tel/Fax: +81-88-656-9684 Fax: +81-88-656-6575
Email: ren@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp