Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers

Organized by:
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
  • Technical Group on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication (NLC)
  • Technical Group on Thought and Language (TL)
Supported by:
Communications Research Laboratory (CRL)

Date and place

March 25-26, 2004, Hainan Island, China

( Immediately following the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing [IJC-NLP-04] )

Symposium site: Resort Golden Palm

Description

The Internet has made it easy to access to a vast amounts of information and to connect with people all over the world. However, there are numerous barriers to effective information access and efficient communication. One of these is language differences. Gaps between different kinds of media, such as speech and text, also decrease the efficiency of information access. The handicapped and the aged are faced with many more barriers than these.

This symposium aims to bring together NLP researchers in Asia and to discuss how language barriers can be overcome by applying Natural Language Processing. The symposium will be held immediately following the 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJC-NLP-04). The official language will be English.

Topics of interest

Papers are solicited on topics with a focus on NLP aimed at overcoming of language barriers. In addition to completed work, work in progress and on-going projects are welcomed.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: