Call for Papers IJCNLP-08 The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing January 7-12, 2008 Hyderabad, India The 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-08) will be organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing in Hyderabad, India on January 8-10, 2008. +++ Submission deadline: Tuesday July 31st, 2007 +++ SCOPE IJCNLP-08 invites the submission of original papers in all areas of natural language processing, including, but not limited to: - Word Segmentation/POS Tagging - Chunking/Shallow Parsing - Parsing/Grammatical Formalisms - Semantic Processing/Lexical Semantics - Ontologies and Linguistic Resources - Statistical Models/Machine Learning for NLP - Discourse - Paraphrasing/Entailment/Generation - Machine Translation - Information Retrieval - Text Mining/Information Extraction - QA/Text Summarization - Spoken Language Processing - NLP Application Conference dates: Main Conference: January 8-10, 2008 Tutorials: January 7, 2008 Workshops: January 11-12, 2008 Venue: Hyderabad, India SUBMISSION INFORMATION Format: Submit your paper as a PDF file. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed 6 pages, excluding References Section. We recommend using the ACL 2007 style files at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/ or alike. Obey the two-column format and use 11-point font. Anonymization: Reviewing will be blind, so in preparing your manuscript, do not include any information which could reveal your identity, or that of your co-authors. The title section of your manuscript should not contain any author names, email addresses, or affiliation information. Double submission policy: Papers presented at IJCNLP should consist mainly of new material that has not been previously published or is being under submission. Submission of similar papers to another journal, conference or workshop must be disclosed on the first page of the submission. How to submit your paper: Paper submission will be handled electronically using the START system. The URL for paper submission will be announced shortly. PROCCEDINGS The proccedings of the 3rd IJCNLP will not be published from Springer. Springer's LNCS and LNAI series are not anymore SCI indexed, and we will publish the proceedings, in printed and CD-ROM forms, of our own. All the conference and workshop papers will be archived in ACL Anthology right after the conference. DEADLINES Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2007 Notification of acceptance: September 17, 2007 Camera ready papers due: October 15, 2007 ORGANISING COMMITTEES Honorary Conference Chair: Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania Conference Chair: Jong-Hyeok Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology Local Organizing Chair: Rajeev Sangal, International Institute of Information Technology Program Committee Chairs: Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Program Committee Area Chairs: To be announced. Publication Committee Chair: Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi-Nan University Publicity Committee Chairs: Satoshi Sato, Nagoya University Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal Financial Committee Chairs: Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong A. Kumaran, Microsoft Research India Tutorial Committee Chairs: Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Key-Sun Choi, KAIST Workshops Committee Chairs: Haizhou Li, Institute of Infocomm Research Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne Exhibition/Demo Committee Co-chairs Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Fei Xia, University of Washington