The Sixth International Workshop on
Information Retrieval with Asian Languages
(IRAL2003)
Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, JAPAN
July 7, 2003
Sponsored by
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
In cooperation with
ACM SIGIR
Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing (pending)
SIG-DBS, Information Processing Society of Japan (pending)
SIG-KLP, Korea Information Science Society (pending)
SIG-NLP, Information Processing Society of Japan (pending)
Singapore Computer Society (pending)
Last updated: June 3, 2003
News
We have collected and assembled all the papers for the proceedings.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Don't forget to register to the ACL Conference and/or the IRAL workshop until June 14 to qualify for early registration. (June 3, 2003)
- The deadline for electronic submission has been brought forward to May 30; the same date as the hardcopy.
Although the deadline is still ahead, it is preferable to submit the electronic version as soon as you send out the hardcopy. (May 27, 2003)
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Online registration is now ready. Please follow the instructions on the ACL web site.
Note that IRAL2003 is a "one day workshop" associated with the main ACL conference. (May 27, 2003)
- The ACL URL for the instructions for submissions of final camera-ready manuscripts was corrected. (May 16, 2003)
- Instructions for submissions of final camera-ready manuscripts has been posted.
If your submission was accepted, please prepare the final manuscript following the instructions. (May 15, 2003)
- Result of review and notifications of acceptance has been sent out to the authors by e-mail.
If you have submit a paper, but have not recieved the result from us, contact iral2003@nii.ac.jp immediately. (May 15, 2003)
- Notifications of acceptance to the authors is postponed to May 15. (May 14, 2003)
- Updated committee members list. (Apr 21, 2003)
- Acknowledgements has been sent out to the authors by e-mail.
If you have submit a paper, but have not recieved an acknowledgement from us, contact iral2003@nii.ac.jp immediately. (Apr 18, 2003)
- Submission deadline has passed.
Acknowledgements will be sent out to the authors by e-mail shortly. (Apr 17, 2003)
- Paper submission guideline files have been amended.
Please override the older ones with them. (Apr 2, 2003)
- Instructions for submission
has been posted. (Apr 1, 2003)
- IRAL2003 Web page created. (Feb 7, 2003)
Call for Papers
The purpose of IRAL is to bring together researchers and developers,
who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting results
in the field of information retrieval with an emphasis on the issues
related to Asian languages and multi-lingual applications.
The first workshop was held in Taejon, Korea in 1996, followed by those
held in Tsukuba, Japan (1997), Singapore (1998), Taipei (1999), and in
Hong Kong (2000).
Unfortunately, because of organizing difficulties in the steering committee
members of participating Asian countries, we could not hold the workshop
in the years 2001 and 2002.
This year, following the success of IRAL2000 held in Hong Kong just before
ACL2000, we proposed and was granted to take advantage of holding IRAL2003
as one of the ACL2003
(to be held in Sapporo, located in the Northern island Hokkaido
of Japan) supported workshops.
We regard having the workshop held within ACL2003 as a good chance
to restart the periodical gathering of the IR research community.
Best papers will be considered for publication in the
ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
.
IRAL2003 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of
information storage and retrieval, but topics contributed to Asian languages
are encouraged.
The technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
- IR theory
- Experimentation: test collection, corpus, evaluation methodology
- Systems and implementation issues: integration with network and
database system
- Natural language processing related issues: Questioning and Answering,
summarization, cross-lingual IR, term extraction
- Information filtering, routing and text classification
- Application of IR technology
- Web related issues: web mining, search engine
Submissions
Instructions for submissions of papers
Authors of papers are invited to submit original contributions,
not exceeding 5,000 words in English by e-mail.
Authors should pay special attention to the preparation of PDF files which
include Asain fonts.
Please refer HERE on how to prepare PDF files,
as well as details such as electronic submission and style files.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail to:
iral2003@nii.ac.jp
Instructions for submissions of final camera-ready manuscripts
Since IRAL2003 is one of the ACL2003 supported workshops,
the proceedings will be published through ACL committee.
Therefore, the format of the final camera-ready manuscript should comply
with the guidelines stated by ACL.
Please follow the instructions provided by ACL at the following URL to
prepare your final manuscript:
Note that you will have to submit the manuscript by the following two means.
- Hard-copy camera-ready manuscript
Please send (A) Three hard-copy camera-ready manuscripts together with the
(B) Copyright Transfer Agreement (Find details in the above URL)
to the following IRAL2003 office no later than May 30, 2003 by postal mail or courier service (FedEx, DHL and so on).
- Dr. Jun Adachi
- National Institute of Informatics (NII)
- 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, JAPAN
- Tel: +81-3-4212-2750
- Electronic submission
You also have to register your paper information and upload the PDF file
at the ACL paper registry system no later than May 30, 2003.
Important dates
| April 15, 2003: |
The deadline for reciept of submissions (Deadline has passed) |
| May 15, 2003: |
Notification of results to authors by e-mail |
| May 30, 2003: |
Final manuscript due in hard-copy camera ready format (to IRAL) |
| May 30, 2003: |
Final manuscript due in electronic format (to ACL) |
| June 14, 2003: |
Deadline for early registration to the workshop/conference |
| June 30, 2003: |
Deadline for online registration to the workshop/conference |
Organization
- General Chair
- Professor Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
- Steering Committee
- Jun Adachi, NII, Japan
- Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
- Mun-Kew Leong, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National Univ., Korea
- Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
- Program Committee
- Co-chair: Jun Adachi, NII, Japan
- Co-chair: Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
- Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
- Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Koji Eguchi, NII, Japan
- Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
- Dong-Hong Ji, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Noriko Kando, NII, Japan
- Christopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore
- Kazuaki Kishida, Surugadai University, Japan
- Gary Gun-bae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
- Joon-Ho Lee, Soongsil Univ., Korea
- Mun-Kew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
- Helen Meng, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
- Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Information & Communications Univ., Korea
- Hiroshi Nakagawa, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
- Hwee Tou Ng, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
- Jain-Yun Nie, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
- Keizo Oyama, National Insititute of Informatics, Japan
- Hae-Chang Rim, Korean Univ., Korea
- Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
- Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Contact
- Dr. Jun Adachi
- National Institute of Informatics (NII)
- 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, JAPAN
- Tel: +81-3-4212-2620, 2510
- Fax: +81-3-3556-1916
- E-mail: j_adachi@nii.ac.jp
IRAL2003 / Contact: iral2003@nii.ac.jp