Call for Papers

 

International Journal of

Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

 

Special Issue on

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Question Answering

 

 

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) and cross-lingual question

answering (CLQA) have recently gained more attentions as different ways

of cross-lingual information access for different needs. CLIR and CLQA

are much more complicated challenges compared with monolingual IR and

monolingual QA. Many practical problems are to be solved to make their

techniques more effective. For examples, they need to deal with

query/question translation, question classification, document retrieval,

and answering. In recent years, a number of techniques have been made to

improve the state of the art. The goal of this special issue is to

solicit papers showing recent advances and applications in CLIR and

CLQA. Prospective authors are invited to submit their works to this

special issue. Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

- Statistical models or language models for CLIR and CLQA

- Query/question translation

- Unknown word translation or name entity translation

- Question analysis/classification

- Passage/answer extraction

- Cross-lingual retrieval

- Cross-lingual categorization and classification

- Cross-lingual text mining

- Cross-lingual semantic analysis

- Machine translation/transliteration

- Resource for CLIR and CLQA

 

 

Important Dates

 

Submission deadline: June 30, 2007

Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2007

Camera-ready due: December 15, 2007

Tentative publication date: March 2008

 

 

Instructions for Authors

 

All manuscripts are subject to anonymous peer review. The style for

manuscript is available at the homepage of International Journal of

Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

(http://www.aclclp.org.tw/journal/index.php). The authors should submit

their papers in PDF to one of the guest editors.

 

 

Guest Editors

 

Wen-Hsiang Lu (whlu@mail.ncku.edu.tw)

Dept. of Computer Science & Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung

University, Taiwan

 

Jianfeng Gao (jfgao@microsoft.com)

Microsoft Research, USA

 

Min-Yen Kan (kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg)

School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

Cheng-Zen Yang (czyang@saturn.yzu.edu.tw)

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan