********************************************************************** International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2005 Oct. 10-15, 2005 at Jeju Island, Korea URL: http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/ IJCNLP2005 Newsletter No.1 (11/11/2004) ********************************************************************** Publicity Chairs: Hiroshi Nakagawa (U-Tokyo, Japan) and Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The publicity chairs of IJCNLP05 plan to issue newsletter to inform you of the latest information about IJCNLP05. This is the first Newsletter of INCNLP05 next year. Now IJCNLP05's homepage is open. You can check the updated information on http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/ This newsletter includes 1) Venue 2) Important dates 3) Call For Paper 4) Organizations ----------------------- 1. Venue: Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel in Jeju city This hotel was newly built and opened in July 2003 as a five-star hotel. It can be reached in 5 minutes from both Jeju International Airport and Jeju Harbor. For more details, just visit its homepage at (http://www.ramadajeju.co.kr/Default_english.asp) As for sightseeing links, the following may be useful for visitors: (1) Official Korea Travel site (http://english.tour2korea.com/) (2) About Jeju Island http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/Cheju http://www.jejunature.com/emain/e_index.html http://activejeju.com/jeju/info.htm "Discover the fantastic nature of Jeju, Hawaii of the Far East" 2. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline Fri 15-Apr-05 Notification of acceptance Mon 23-May-05 Camera ready due Mon 13-Jun-05 Tutorials and Pre-conference Workshops: TBA Main Conference: Oct. 11-13, 2005 Post-conference Workshops: TBA Note that AIRS2005 (Asian Information Retrieval Symposium 2005) is planned to be the collocated conferences of IJCNLP05. The plan at this moment is the first day of AIRS05 will be overlapped with the last day of IJCNLP05 main conference. 3. Preliminary Call For Papers The 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05) October 11-13, 2005, Jeju Island, Korea The 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05) will be organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP: http://www.afnlp.org/) on the beautiful Jeju Island, Korea, on October 11-13, 2005. This is a preliminary call for papers to assist you in scheduling. +++ Submission deadline: Friday 15th April 2005 +++ SCOPE: IJCNLP-05 invites the submission of original papers in all areas of natural language processing, including, but not limited to: - the lexicon, phonology and morphology - word segmentation - part-of-speech tagging - syntax and parsing - semantics and pragmatics - discourse and dialogue processing - machine translation and multilingual processing - question answering - information extraction and text mining - text summarisation - natural language generation - natural language applications, tools and resources - linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language In addition to the above, we are particularly keen to include within the scope of the conference work in speech technology and information retrieval. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: We expect to publish the proceedings of the conference as a volume in the Springer-Verlag LNAI series. Details of submission requirements and formatting will be announced in a future mailing. DEADLINES: Paper submission deadline: Friday 15th April 2005 Notification of acceptance: Monday 23rd May 2005 Camera ready papers due: Monday 13th June 2005 IJCNLP-05 Conference: Tuesday-Thursday 11th-13th October 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 4. Organization IJCNLP-05 People (Nov. 11, 2004) 1. Conference chair - Prof. Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea, kschoi@cs.kaist.ac.kr) 2. Organizing committee chair - Prof. Jong-Hyeok Lee (POSTECH, Korea, jhlee@postech.ac.kr) 3. Program committee co-chairs - Prof. Robert Dale (Macquarie Univ., Australia, rdale@ics.mq.edu.au) - Prof. Kam-fai Wong (Chinese Univ. of HK, Hong Kong, kfwong@se.cuhk.edu.hk) 4. Publication committee chairs - Dr. Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg) - Dr. Olivia Kwong (City Univ. of Hong Kong, rlolivia@cityu.edu.hk) 5. Publicity (advertisement) committee co-chairs - Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa (Uni. of Tokyo, Japan, nakagawa@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) - Prof. Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea, park@cs.kaist.ac.kr) 6. Financial committee co-chairs - Prof. Hyuk-Chul Kwon(Busan Nat'l U., Korea, hckwon@pusan.ac.kr) - Prof. Benjamin K. Tsou (City Univ. of HK, Hong Kong, rlbtsou@cityu.edu.hk) 7. Poster & Demo co-chairs - Prof. Rajeev Sangal (IIIT, India, sangal@iiit.net) - two more co-chairs(TBA) 8. Tutorial committee chair - Prof. Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong, dekai@cs.ust.hk) 9. Workshops & satellite chairs - Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan, matsu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp) - Prof. Laurent Romary (LORIA, France, laurent.romary@loria.fr) 10. Exhibition committee co-chairs - Seung-Shik Kang (Kookmin Univ., Korea, sskang@cs.kookmin.ac.kr) -Tetsuya Ishikawa (Tsukuba University, Japan, ishikawa@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp)