Announements

28 May, 2011: AFNLP calls for bids to host IJCNLP 2013! Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) hereby invites proposals to host IJCNLP 2013. Draft proposals are due on August 15, 2011. The conference should take place in October-December 2013. For details, please download the call-for-bids.

Conferences

ALTA 2011 December 1-2, 2011, Canberra, Australia This year, the Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTA) will be held at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd of December 2011. This event will be the ninth annual installment of the ALTA Workshop in its most-recent incarnation, and the continuation of an annual workshop series that has existed under various guises since the early 90s.

IJCNLP 2011 November 7-13, 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 7-13, 2011. The conference will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. IJCNLP 2011 will include full papers, short papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.

Workshop on Web Information Processing (IWWIP 2011), July 11-12, 2011, Guilin, Guangxi, China. The second international workshop on Web Information Processing (IWWIP 2011) will be held in 11-12 July 2011, Sheraton Guilin Hotel, Guilin, Guangxi, China. The workshop website is www.icmlc.com/iwwip/

International Conference on Asian Language Proceesing 2011 (IALP 2011) November 15-17, 2011, Penang, Malaysia International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2011 (IALP 2011) will be held in Penang, Malaysia on Nov 15-17, 2011. This conference will be jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). We will continue to work with IEEE Computer Society to publish the conference proceesings.

25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 25) December 16-18, 2011, Singapore The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 25) will be held in Singapore on December 16-18, 2011, hosted by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS). The PACLIC series of conferences emphasize the synergy of theoretical analysis and processing of language, and provides a forum for researchers in different fields of language study in the Pacific-Asia region to share their findings and interests in the formal and empirical study of languages. Organized under the auspices of PACLIC Steering Committee, PACLIC 25 will be the latest instalment of our long standing collaborative efforts among theoretical and computational linguists in the Pacific-Asia region.

12th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2011) July 19-21, 2011, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PACLING 2011 will be a high-quality, workshop-style conference whose aim is to promote friendly scientific interaction relating to computational linguistics among Pacific Rim countries. The emphasis of the conference is on interdisciplinary scientific exchange demonstrating openness towards original, fresh, and/or useful research including those which might sometimes fall outside current dominant schools of thought, and on technological transfer within and across the Pacific region.

AFNLP

The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) associations is to promote information dissemination and research co-operation among researchers in the region and co-ordinate initiatives of the region with those of the other regions in Natural Language Processing and the related fields.

The official members of the AFNLP are either professional associations or research institutions/universities in countries or territories of the region, which represent researchers in the countries/territories or which take on the responsibility of representing them. We also welcome other organizations, such as organizers of conferences in the region, international professional bodies, professional associations of research fields related with NLP etc., to join us as liaison members.