Submissions

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ijc-NLP) invites the submission of papers to be held in the Hainan Island, China. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to

machine translation and multilingual processing

question answering, information extraction and information retrieval

natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation

natural language processing for web, knowledge-management systems, text mining

word segmentation, shallow parsing, tagging and chunking

parsing, generation and summarization

language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing

machine learning for natural language

software architectures for natural language processing

syntax, semantics, grammars, morphology and phonology

discourse and dialogue, natural language interfaces, speech

lexical semantics and ontologies for NLP

linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language
computational psycholinguistics

Requirements

Papers should describe original work. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

A paper accepted for presentation at the ijc-NLP cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Reviewing

The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a set of Program Committee members. Final decisions on the technical program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Submission Information

Submissions should follow a two-column format and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ijc-NLP LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for ijc-NLP.

Several files are supplied below that describe the formatting for ijc-NLP-04 submissions. Note that full paper submissions are restricted to 8 pages.

PDF file illustrating the format:

ijc-nlp04.pdf

Postscript file illustrating the format:

ijc-nlp04.ps

Sample latex file:

ijc-nlp04.tex

Style file for latex:

ijc-nlp04.sty

Bibliography formatting file for latex:

ijc-nlp04.bst

MSWord dot file:

ijc-nlp04.dot


A description of the format is available in ijc-nlp04.ps in case you are unable to use these style files directly.

Note also that as reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Kim, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Kim previously showed (Kim, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

Submission Procedure

All papers must be submitted electronically to here. The papers must be submitted no later than 12:00 p.m. (midday, Japan Standard Time), November 17, 2003 Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed: (Note that we no longer require early registration for papers.)

Please consult the submission site in which detailed description of the submission procedures will be provided. Questions regarding the submission process should be directed to ijc-NLP-submission@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:

12:00 p.m. (midday, JST), November 17, 2003

Notification of Acceptance:

December 23, 2003

Camera ready papers due:

January 24, 2004

Main conference:

March 22-24, 2004 (Monday-Wednesday)