CALL FOR PAPERS

CLIA-2008

 

Second International Workshop on

Cross Lingual Information Access, Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies,

IJCNLP-2008, January 11, 2008, Hyderabad, India


FOCUS AND GOALS
This workshop aims to bring together various trends in cross and multi-lingual information retrieval and access. It will provide a comprehensive survey of the state of the art technology and systems, and present emerging technologies in this domain. We will bring together ideas from academia, government, and industry to cover a broad spectrum of applications and views. The workshop will consist of a set of invited talks and presentations of technical papers which will be selected after peer review from the submissions received.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

We solicit submissions describing research on all aspects of “Cross Lingual Information Access and Retrieval". Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Cross-language cross media search (speech, video, audio)
    * Uses of (statistical) MT in multilingual information access
    * Search based on language independent forms
    * Less-commonly taught languages
    * Cross-language text categorization
    * Multilingual Cross lingual named entity recognition
    * Multilingual digital libraries
    * Scalability issues in multilingual information access/ system evaluation
    * Cross Lingual/ Multilingual question answering
    * Multi-lingual Summarization
    * Practical systems on various domains
    * Acquisition of parallel and comparable corpora in multiple languages
    * Morphology and Shallow Parsing for CLIR
    * Query Translation, Query Expansion, Multiword handling and Lightweight WSD for CLIR
    * Other CLIR research issues, user studies / interactive CLIA 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad, India (Primary Contact) vv [at] iiit.ac.in

Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay, India

Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur, India

A Kumaran Microsoft Research, India

Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: Sept 21, 2007
Notification of Paper Acceptance: Oct 26, 2007
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: Nov 16, 2007

Workshop: January 11 2008.