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OverviewThe 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. TopicsTopics 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
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Paper Submission Deadline |
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Acceptance Notification |
December 19, 2003 |
Camera-Ready Paper due (5 pages) |
January 9, 2004 |
Conference |
April 5-7, 2004 |