Second SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

SIGHAN, a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics, invites the submission of papers for its second workshop to be held in conjunction with ACL-03 in Sapporo, Japan. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Chinese language processing, including, but not limited to:

1. word segmentation, POS tagging, and parsing;
2. discourse, dialogue, and natural language interfaces;
3. lexical semantics, word sense disambiguation, and lexicon acquisition;
4. generation and summarization;
5. cross-lingual information retrieval and machine translation.

Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.

The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the workshop, and interest to the attendees. A paper accepted for presentation at this workshop cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings.

We allow simultaneous paper submission to the workshop and the ACL main conference. If a paper is accepted by both the conference and the workshop, the paper will be presented at the conference, rather than at the workshop. The author(s) should notify the workshop chairs by May 1 so that proper arrangement can be made.

Submissions should follow the same style as the ones for regular ACL paper. For details, go to http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003 and click on "Call for Papers". Submissions should not exceed 8 pages including the reference. More information about the workshop will be posted to http://www.sighan.org/swclp2.

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