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FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CROSS LINGUAL INFORMATION ACCESS
COLING 2010, Beijing 28th August, 2010
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/UM/india/events/CLIA2010/page.htm
The fourth workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access aims to bring together researchers from a variety of fields and practitioners from government and industry to address the issue of information need of multi-lingual societies. This workshop will also highlight the contributions of NLP and computational linguistic aspects to CLIA, in addition to the previously better represented viewpoint from Information Retrieval.
IMPORTANT DATES
. 30th May, 2010 Paper submission due
. 30th June, 2010 Paper notification of acceptance
. 10th July, 2010 Paper Camera-ready due
. 28th August, 2010 CLIA 2010 Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cross-lingual information access (CLIA) is concerned with technologies and applications that enable people to freely access information that is expressed in any language that may differ from the query language. With the rapid development of globalization and digital online information in Internet, a growing demand for CLIA has emerged. Ordinary netizens who are surfing the Internet for special information and communicating in social networks, global companies which provide multilingual services to their multinational customers, governments who aim to lower the barriers to international commerce and collaboration and homeland security are in need of cross lingual access. This has triggered vigorous research and development in CLIA. This workshop is the fourth in a series of workshops and aims to address the need of cross-lingual information access. The previous three workshops were held during IJCAI 2007 in Hyderabad, IJCNLP 2008 in Hyderabad, and NAACL 2009 in Colorado.
In this workshop, in addition to Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR), the focus is on multi-lingual information extraction, information integration, summarization, and other key technologies that are useful for CLIA. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from a variety of fields such as information retrieval, computational linguistics, machine translation, and digital library, and practitioners from government and industry to address the issue of information need of multi-lingual societies. This workshop also aims to highlight and emphasize the contributions of NLP and computational linguistic aspects to CLIA, in addition to the previously better represented viewpoint from Information Retrieval. We thus solicit
submissions in the following and related topics:
MULTI-LINGUAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION
. Acquisition of multi-lingual parallel/comparable/non-comparable corpora
. Multi-lingual document/sentence/word alignment
. Multi-lingual lexicon/term extraction
. Multi-lingual new words / named entity detection and translation MACHINE TRANSLATION IN CLIA
. Interaction between cross-lingual information retrieval and machine translation
. Query translation and document translation
. Developing statistical machine translation systems from multi-lingual corpora
. Domain adaptation in machine translation
. Multi-lingual / Cross-lingual named entity recognition
NLP/CL/IR FOR CLIA
. Multi-lingual summarization
. Multi-lingual information extraction
. Multi-lingual question answering
. Multi-lingual text categorization and clustering
. Multi-lingual opinion study and sentiment analysis
. Mono-lingual processing leveraging on multi-lingual resources
GENERAL CLIA
. Approaches to cross-lingual/multi-lingual information access
. Domain specific cross-lingual/multi-lingual information access
. Cross-lingual cross media search (speech, video, audio)
. Machine Learning for multi-lingual information access
. Scalability issues in cross-lingual/multi-lingual information access
. system evaluation
. Web-scale cross-lingual search
. User studies / interactive CLIA
PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions to CLIA 2010 should follow the COLING 2010 paper submission policy, including paper format, blind review policy and title and author format convention. The workshop papers are in two-column format with at least two (2) pages and up to eight (8) pages of content plus one extra page for references. A detailed abstract with two (2) pages to address your on-going work is also welcome. Submission must conform to the official COLING 2010 style guidelines. Submission is electronic using paper submission software at https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/CLIA2010/. For details, please refer to http://www.coling-2010.org
Workshop Co-Chairs
Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Min Zhang (Institute for InfoComm Research)
Adam Lopez (The University of Edinburgh)
Raghavendra Udupa (Microsoft Research)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country
Ai Ti Aw Institute for Infocomm Research
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University
Pushpak Bhattacharya IIT Bombay
Nicola Cancedda Xerox Research Centre Europe
Patrick Saint Dizier IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier
Nicola Ferro University of Padua
Guohong Fu Heilongjiang University
Cyril Goutte National Research Council of Canada
A Kumaran Microsoft Research of India
Gareth Jones Dublin City University
Joemon Jose University of Glasgow
Gina-Anne Levow National Centre for Text Mining UK
Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research
Qun Liu ICT/CAS
Ting Liu Harbin Institute of Technology
Paul McNamee Johns Hopkins University
Yao Meng Fujitsu R&D Center Co. Ltd., China
Mandar Mitra ISI Kolkata
Doug Oard University of Maryland, College Park
Carol Peters Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione and CLEF campaign
Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam
Paolo Rosso Technical University of Valencia
Hendra Setiawan University of Maryland
L Sobha AU-KBC, Chennai
Rohini Srihari University at Buffalo, SUNY
Ralf Steinberger European Commission - Joint Research Centre,Italy
Le Sun Institute of Software, CAS
Chew Lim Tan National University of Singapore
Vasudeva Varma IIIT Hyderabad
Thuy Vu Institute for Infocomm Research
Haifeng Wang Baidu, China
YunQing Xia TsingHua University, China
Deyi Xiong Institute for Infocomm Research
Guodong Zhou SooChow University
Chengqing Zong Institute of Automation, CAS
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