NLPRS'97 & SNLP'97 Call for Participation

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Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 1997 (NLPRS'97)
(Incorporating SNLP'97)
Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket, Thailand
http://www.links.nectec.or.th/NLPRS/nlprs.html
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		SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 1997

December 2-4, 1997

OBJECTIVE

	Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS), first 
held in Singapore in November 1991 and subsequently in Fukuoka Japan, 
December 1993; and in Seoul Korea, December 1995, aims to be the premier 
Natural Language Processing (NLP) conference in the Pacific Rim region. 
Its purpose is to promote high-quality research in NLP and to provide an 
international forum for researchers and practioners to exchange ideas and 
experiences on the development and applications of NLP systems. NLPRS'97
will incorporate Symposium on Natural Language Processing 1997 (SNLP'97),
an biannual international conference hosted by Thai universities.
	Full papers, research-in-progress papers, and proposals for panels
or other activities pertaining to the conference are invited. Suggested 
topics include, but are not limited to:

		Corpus	
		Dialogue 
		Disambiguation & Resolution
		Generation
		Information Retrieval
		Interface & Multimedia
		Lexicon
		Local Language Processing and Applications
		Machine Translation
		Multilingual Information Processing
		NLP Product Development
		Parsing
		Semantics
		Speech Processing
		Understanding

LOCATION

	NLPRS'97 and SNLP'97 will be held at Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket, Thailand.
	Phuket Island is a well-known resort in the southern part of
Thailand. It has an international airport and a number of direct flights from 
various parts of the world.

MAIN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair:	
	Thajchayapong, Pairash
	King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Lardkrabang 
	and National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
	Thailand

Organizing Committee:
Chair	
	Wuwongse, Vilas
	Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Vice-chair
	Meknavin, Surapan
	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand

Program Committee:	
Chair
	Tsujii, Jun'ichi [JP]
	University of Tokyo, UMIST 
Vice-chair
	Kawtrakul, Asanee [TH]
	Kasetsart University

	Niwa, Yoshiki [JP]
	ARL, Hitachi, Ltd.

Members
	Dale, Robert [AU]
  	Microsoft Research Institute
  	School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
  	Macquarie University                   

	Estival, Dominique [AU]
  	Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
  	University of Melbourne

	Choi, Key-Sun [KR]
  	KAIST, Department of Computer Science
  	Center for Artificial Intelligence Research

	Myaeng, Sung H. [KR]
   	Department of Computer Science
   	Chungnam National University

	Lee, Jong-Hyeok [KR]
   	Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
       	POSTECH (Pohang Univ. of Science & Technology)      

	Kwon, Hyuk-Chul [KR]
   	Dept. of Computer Science
     	Pusan National University

	Rim, Hae-Chang [KR]
  	Department of Computer Science 
	Korea University                   
    
	Seo, Jungyun [KR]
   	Department of Computer Science
	Sogang University

	Lua, Kim-Teng [SG]
   	National University of Singapore

	Guo, Jin [SG]
  	Institute of Systems Science
  	National University of Singapore

	T'sou, Benjamin K. [HK]
  	City UNIVERSITY of Hong Kong

	Yusoff, Zaharin [ML]
  	School of Computer Science and UTMK, USM
	Malaysia

	Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn [TH]
  	Linguistics Research Unit, Department of Linguistics
        Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University     

	Rivepiboon, Wanchai [TH]
  	Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
        Chulalongkorn University

	Hoonchamlong, Yuphaphann [TH]
  	Thammasat University

	Su, Keh-Yih [TA]
  	Department of Electrical Engineering
  	National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

	Chen, Keh-Jiann [TA]
   	Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
   	Taiwan

	Huang, Chu-Ren [TA]
    	Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 
	Taiwan
	
	Huang, Changning [CH]
   	Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University
   	China

	Yao, Tian-Shun [CH]
    	Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
        Northeastern University, P.R.China

	Yu, Shiwen [CH]
  	Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking Univ.
  	P. R. China         

	Wang, Yong Cheng [CH]
  	Computer Application Technology Institute,
        Shanghai JiaoTong Univ., P.R.China

	Peters, Stanley [US]
   	Stanford University, USA

	Joshi, Aravind [US]
   	Dept. of Computer and Information Science
   	University of Pennsylvania     

	Hovy, Eduard [US]
   	USC Information Sciences Institute

	Popowich, Fred [CA]
   	School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
   	CANADA                           

	Isabelle, Pierre [CA]
   	Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI)
   	Canada

	Fass, Dan [CA]
   	Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University
   	CANADA

	Sangal, Rajeev [IN]
   	IIT Kanpur Centre for NLP, Univ of Hyderabad,
	India    

	Ananiadou, S. [UK]
	Dept. of Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University/UMIST,
	the United Kingdom 
	
	Yusuf, Hammam Riza [INDO]
    	Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPP Teknologi)
        Indonesia

	Tokunaga, Takenobu [JP]
     	Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  	Japan   

	Takeda, Koichi [JP]
     	Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research
     	Japan

	Nishino, Fumihito  [JP]
     	Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
     	Japan

	Yasukawa, Hideki [JP]
     	Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
     	Japan                            

	Kurohashi, Sadao [JP]
     	Department of Electronics and Communication,
        Kyoto University

	Isahara, Hitoshi [JP]
	Communications Research Laboratory, MPT
       	JAPAN

	Yoshimura, Kenji [JP]
     	Department of Electronics Engineering
     	Fukuoka University                       

	Nakagawa, Hiroshi [JP]
     	Dept. of Computer and Electronics Engineering,
     	Yokohama National University

	Utsuro, Takehito [JP]
     	Graduate School of Information Science
     	Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

	Furuse, Osamu [JP]
  	ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories

	
Local Arrangements:
	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
	Thailand
			
WWW Facilities:
	National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
	Thailand

	URL:	http://www.links.nectec.or.th/NLPRS/nlprs.html
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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline:
	June 30, 1997
Notification of Acceptance:
	August 31, 1997
Camera-Ready Copy:
	September 30, 1997

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

	Papers should be original, unpublished, not more than 25 double-
spaced pages including a separate title page with each author's name, 
title, affiliation, complete mailing address, email address, and 
telephone and fax numbers.
	Panel and other proposals should include the names and affiliations
of the individuals who have agreed to participate and a 1-2 page summary 
of the topic, including a description of how the session will be structured.
These may be submitted early for feedback and assistance from the program
committee.
	Research in progress submissions should be no longer than 2000
words in length.
	All full papers received by the submission deadline will be 
refereed by at least two reviewers. All papers presented at NLPRS'97
and SNLP'97 will be included in the Conference Proceedings.
	Four hard-copies of all submissions should be sent to

Linguistics and Knowledge Science Laboratory
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
National Science and Technology Development Agency
73/1  Rama VI Rd.,  Rajtawe,  Bangkok  10400.,
Thailand
(NLPRS'97)

(We regret that we could not accept electronic submissions for now.)
 
NLPRS'97 SUPPORTERS:
	
*  Asian Institute of Technology
*  Kasetsart University
*  National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
*  SIG-KLC of Korean Information Science Society (pending)
*  SIG-NLP of Information Processing Society of Japan
*  The Association for Natural Language Processing
*  Telecom Asia (pending)

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Received on Monday, 2 June 1997 05:08:16 UTC