IALP 2017

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================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The 21th International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2017) December 5-7, 2017 Singapore http://www.colips.org/conferences/ialp2017

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IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: August 15, 2017 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2017 Camera-ready deadline: October 13, 2017 Early registration deadline: October 23, 2017 Regular registration deadline: November 20, 2017 Conference: December 5 - 7, 2017

The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series of conferences with unique focus on Asian Language Processing. The conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspects of Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in the different fields of language study all over the world to meet.

TOPICS Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research in all aspects of Asian Language Processing, including, but not limited to:

Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages Asian character encoding and compression Multimodal representations and processing Voice input and output Phonology and morphology Lexical semantics and word sense Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing Discourse analysis Language, linguistic and speech resource development Evaluation methods and user studies Machine learning for natural language Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval Text entailment and paraphrasing Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering Machine translation and multilingual processing Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical Linguistics Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval Speech recognition and synthesis Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS Special hardware and software for Asian language computing

All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF) only. Paper submissions should follow the IEEE Proceedings' two-column format without exceeding four (4) pages including references. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to IEEE Proceedings' format. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines.

The official language of the conference is English. Papers submitted should be written in English.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Chair Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Institute for Infocomm Research, and COLIPS

General Chair Minghui Dong, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Program Chairs Yue Zhang, Singapore University of Technology And Design Rong Tong, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Organization Chair Lei Wang, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Publication Chair Yanfeng Lu, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

Local Organizing Committee Zhengchen Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS Ridong Jiang, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS Yaozhu Paul Chan, Institute for Infocomm Research and COLIPS

We are looking forward to seeing you at IALP2017