IEEE NLP-KE 2007 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 and 2005 International Conferences on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE'03-Beijing and NLP-KE'05-Wuhan has clearly proved it. The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'07, will be held on Aug.30-Sep.2, 2007, in Beijing, 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 Prospective authors are invited to submit papers reporting original and previously unpublished work.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. Most papers in the past proceedings have been indexed by EI, papers with high quality will be also published, with revision, on Journals that are indexed by EI. The Important Dates: Deadline of Paper Submission: 31 May, 2007 Acceptance Notification: 30 June, 2007 Early Registration: 15 July, 2007 Paper Submission Address/ Web-site of NLP-KE'07: http://caai.cn/nlpke07 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 Spoken Language Processing A-04 Dialog Strategy and Technology A-05 Natural Language Learning A-06 Natural Language Generation A-07 Natural Language Understanding A-08 Evaluation of Natural Language Systems A-09 Lexical Resources and Corpora A-10 Semantic Web B. Major Applications of NLP B-01 Machine Translation B-02 Information Retrieval and Information Extraction B-03 Web-page Context Security B-04 Affective Computing B-05 Text Categorization B-06 Text Summarization B-07 Other Applications C. Knowledge Engineering in NLP C-01 Text Mining C-02 Knowledge Acquisition C-03 Knowledge Representation C-04 Induction-Based Knowledge Creation from Information C-05 Knowledge Discovery C-06 Information-Knowledge-Intelligence Transformations C-07 Machine Learning C-08 Language Knowledge Engineering C-09 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. More information can be found from web-sites: http://caai.cn/nlpke07 Conference Co-Chairs Prof. Fuji Ren (Japan) Prof. Yixin Zhong (China) SPONSORS Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence Co-Sponsors IEEE Signal Processing Society