2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering Wuhan, China Oct 30-Nov.1, 2005 Submission deadline: 31 July 2005 http://www.caai.cn/nlp-ke05 CALL FOR PAPERS Due to the great needs of economic globalization and the rapid advancement of information technology, natural language processing based on knowledge engineering has become one of the most attractive focuses in research. The extraordinary success of the previous conference, 2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE'03-Beijing, has clearly proved it. The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'05, will be held on Oct.30-Nov.1, 2005, in the famous winter resort, Donghu Hotel, Wuhan, China. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers reporting original and previously unpublished work. Papers are to be submitted electronically, as PDF or WORD files. The required format for the paper is illustrated in appendix. Only the full papers received before the deadline will be considered for review. The length of a paper is limited to 6 pages and extra pages will be charged. Papers with high quality will be indexed by EI. Proposals of special sessions like Ontology, Semantic Web, NLP Standards and Evaluation, NLP Project for Olympic Games and other hot topics, are particularly welcome The Important Dates Deadline of Paper Submission: 31 July 2005 Acceptance Notification: 31 Aug, 2005 Deadline for Session Proposals: 31 July 2005 Early Registration: 15 Sept, 2005 Paper Submission Address/ Web-site of NLP-KE'05: http://caai.cn/nlpke05 The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following A. Fundamental NLP Technologies A-01 Word Sense Disambiguation A-02 Language Modeling A-03 Speech Recognition A-04 Text-To-Speech Synthesis A-05 Spoken Language Processing A-06 Dialog Strategy and Technology A-07 Natural Language Learning A-08 Natural Language Generation A-09 Natural Language Understanding A-10 Evaluation of Natural Language Systems A-11 Lexical Resources and Corpora A-12 Corpora Linguistics A-13 Ontology A-14 Statistic vs. Linguistic Approaches A-15 Semantic Web B. Major Applications of NLP B-01 Machine Translation B-02 Multiple Language Translation B-03 Multi-lingual, Multi-Function and Multi-Media Systems B-04 Information Retrieval B-05 Information Extraction B-06 Text Categorization B-07 Text Summarization B-15 Other Applications B-08 E-mail Rubbish Filtering System B-09 Web-page Security Monitoring B-10 Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog B-11 Tour-Guide System B-12 Applications in E-Commerce B-13 Applications in Education B-14 Applications in Large-scale International Events C. Knowledge Engineering in NLP C-01 Text Mining C-02 Knowledge Acquisition C-03 Knowledge Representation C-04 Knowledge Discovery C-05 Machine Learning C-06 Multi-Agent Systems C-07 Uncertainty Management in Data Mining C-08 Induction-Based Knowledge Creation from Information C-09 Information-Knowledge-Intelligence Transformations C-10 Other Issues related to Knowledge Theory D. Special Forum on NLP Standards and Evaluations Forum will be organized to discuss the basic issues of NLP standards and evaluations during the conference. The Important Dates Deadline of Paper Submission: 31, July 2005 Deadline for Session Proposals: 31, July 2005 Acceptance Notification: 31, Aug 2005 Early Registration: 15, Sept 2005 Paper Submission Submissions will be accepted via the Web site at http://www.caai.cn:8086/nlp-ke05/article_web/ *The length of a paper is limited to 6 pages and extra pages will be charged. *All authors are required to submit their papers for review by 31 July, 2005 . *The notification of paper acceptance will be sent by 31 Aug, 2005. Organization Conference Co-Chairs Fuji Ren Japan Yixin Zhong China International Advisory Committee Co-Chairs Christian Boitet France Nicoletta Calzolari Italy TSUJII Jun'ichi Japan Lotfi Zadeh US Program Committee Honorary Chair Eduard Hovy US Program Committee Co-Chairs Chengqing Zong China Maosong Sun China Organizing Committee Co-Chairs Jiansheng Zhang China Youqi Cao China Huazhong Xu China Publication Co-Chairs US China Publicity Chair Xiaojie Wang China Sponsors Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence Chinese Information Processing Society Co-Sponsors IEEE Signal Processing Society IEEE IEEE Beijing Section Organizers China Center for Promotion of Applied Tech Wuhan University of Science & Technology Beijing University of Posts & Telecomm Supporters Natural Science Foundation of China Chinese Association for Science and Technology Ministry of Science and Technology of China Ministry of Education of China Secretary in Chief Xiaojie Wang:xjwang@bupt.edu.cn Weining Wang: wangwn@bupt.edu.cn Contact Information Program: cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn Conference:wangwn@bupt.edu.cn More information can be found from web-sites: http://caai.cn/nlpke05