Outline
1. Topics
2. Format of Submission
3. Call for Tutorials
4. NLP Tools Contest
5. Important Dates
6. Committees
7. Contact address
The Indian Conference
on Natural Language Processing (ICON) will
be held in Chennai, India during March 1-3, 2002. The conference is
intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers
in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. There
will be a two-day conference during Mar 2-3, 2002, preceded by a day
of pre-conference tutorials on Mar 1, 2002.
1.
TOPICS
Papers are invited
on substantial, original and unpublished research
on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular
focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India.
The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Linguistic
and Computational Issues in Indian Languages
- Morphological processing
- Syntactic processing
- Semantic processing
* Development
and Standardisation of Lexical Resources
- Manual creation of lexical resources
- Automatic acquisition
- Standardization
- Innovative uses and priority areas
- Collection of corpora
- Annotation of corpora
- Lexicon and dictionaries
* Statistical,
Knowledge Based, and Hybrid Methods
- Language modeling
- Language analysis and generation
- Ontology and thesauri
- Example based machine translation
* NLP Formalisms
and Technologies
- Grammatical and statistical
- Word-sense disambiguation
* Application
areas such as
- Machine Translation
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Interfaces
- Question-Answering
* Systems
- System building experience
- Evaluation of systems
- Information retrieval
- Internet oriented tools
* Speech
Processing
- Text to speech
- Speech recognition
- Special purpose applications
2. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION
Authors should
submit their papers, not to exceed 5000 words (including
figures and references) either electronically or in hard copy. Papers
should be in English. Papers should include an abstract of about
100-200 words in length. Papers outside the specified length are
subject to rejection without review. Since reviewing will be "blind",
the authors' names and affiliations along with the main area of the
paper should be given only on a separate cover sheet.
Those submitting
by hard copy should send four copies of the
paper. Papers in electronic form can be in any of the following
formats: plain text, Postscript, PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF
format). Submissions in electronic form are preferred.
3. CALL FOR TUTORIALS
Proposals are
invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials can
be of half-day or full-day duration and will be held on March 1,
2002. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word
abstract, one page topical outline of the content, description of the
proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.
Send papers
and tutorial proposals to the ICON-02 Secretariat. For
further information, please refer to the Online Submission link or
contact the ICON-02 Secretariat.
4. NLP TOOLS CONTEST
A contest will
be organized on morphological analyzers and spelling
checkers for Indian languages. The purpose of the contest is to
encourage research groups as well as individuals to develop NLP
tools, and compete regarding their performance with a healthy spirit.
Samples of input and output data will be released in stages. A
live contest will be organized during the conference. More detailed
guidelines will be issued separately.
5.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission
deadline December 5, 2001
Acceptance notification January 10, 2002
Camera ready copy due January 30, 2002
Tutorial proposals
due November 15, 2001
Acceptance notification December 15, 2002
Materials January 25, 2002
NLP tools contest
anouncement October 15, 2001
Registration for the contest November 15, 2001
6.
COMMITTEES
ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
N Balakrishnan,
IISc Bangalore
Vineet Chaitanya, IIIT Hyderabad
Aravind K Joshi, Univ of Pennsylvania
SP Mudur, NCST, Mumbai (Acceptance awaited)
PVS Rao, Tata-infotech, Mumbai
UN Singh, CIIL Mysore
B Yegnanarayana, IIT Madras
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Rajeev Sangal,
IIIT, Hyderabad (Chair)
Anvita Abbi, JNU, Delhi (Acceptance awaited)
Sushma Bendre, IIIT Hyderabad
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay
Niladri Chatterjee, IIT Delhi
BB Chaudhuri, ISI Calcutta
Hemant Darbari, CDAC, Pune (Acceptance awaited)
B D Jayaram, CIIL, Mysore
Amba Kulkarni, IIIT Hyderabad
Milind Malshe, IIT Mumbai
Amitabh Mukherjee, IIT Kanpur
K Narayana Murthy, Univ of Hyderabad
Hema Murthy, IIT Madras (Acceptance awaited)
Ranjani Parthasarathi, Anna Univ, Chennai
S Rajendran, Tamil Univ, Tanjavur (Acceptance awaited)
S.V. Ramanan, AUKBC, Chennai
G Umamaheshwara Rao, Univ of Hyderabad
Durgesh Rao, NCST, Mumbai (Acceptance awaited)
Vijay Shanker, Univ of Delaware
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad
RMK Sinha, IIT Kanpur (Acceptance awaited)
B Srinivas, AT&T Research, NJ
Subba Rao, Delhi Univ (Acceptance awaited)
Suraj Bhan Singh, Delhi
Om Vikas, Ministry of IT, Delhi
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
C N Krishnan,
AU-KBC, Chennai (Chair)
7. CONTACT ADDRESS
For
organizational matters:
Prof C.N.
Krishnan
Director
AU-KBC Research Centre
MIT Campus of Anna University
Chromepet, Chennai - 600 044
Ph:+91-44-2232711/2234885
Email: info4all@au-kbc.org
For
paper submission:
Prof Rajeev
Sangal
Director
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019
Ph: +91-40-3001412 (direct); 3001969 (EPABX) Extn: 44
Email: ltrc@iiit.net or rambabu@iiit.net
