CALL FOR PAPER

``Text Processing for Information Access'' Symposium

February 12 and 13, 2003

Suzuka Circuit Flower Garden Hotel, Japan






organized by:
NLC - Natural Language and Communication Committee of IEICE-ISS
supported by:
CRL - Communication Research Laboratory
NII - National Institute of Informatics

The NLC Committee of IEICE will welcomes the submission of paper about investigation of text processing for information access, not only in the area such as tasks identified at TREC and NTCIR but also in related and rival disciplines.


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Important dates:
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Paper Submission deadline: November 25, 2002
Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2002
Camera-ready deadline: January 14, 2003
Symposium: February 12,13, 2003


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Submissions Papers:
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1. Presentation Style: (A)Oral, (B)Poster, (C)Both
2. Title:
3. Author:
4. Organization:
5. Keywords:
6. Demonstration: YES/NO
7. Contact Information(Name,Address,Email):
8. Abstract(about 400 words):

* Please fill the form below and send it back to
submission address(nlc-sympo2002@shiino.info.mie-u.ac.jp)
on internet.


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Official Language:
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The official language for the sessions will be Japanese mainly.
But English will be also accepted for non-native Japaneses speakers.


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Instructions for Presentations:
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- Visual Equipment:
The session room is provided with one projector for
presentations.
- Presentation Time:
Each paper is allotted 20 minutes for presentation and
5 minutes for discussion.


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Areas of interest
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- Text Summarization
- Question Answering
- Information Retrieval
- Cross Lingual Information Retrieval
- Patent Retrieval
- Web Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Named Entity
- Text Processing
- Test Collection
- Evaluation Results
- Evaluation Techniques
- Other Related Areas


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Support Committee
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Isahara, Hitoshi, CRL (Chair)
Akiba, Tomoyoshi, AIST
Izuha, Tatsuya, Toshiba
Inui, Kentaro, NAIST
Iwayama, Makoto, Hitachi/Tokyo Institute of Technology
Uchimoto, Kiyotaka, CRL
Uchiyama, Masao, CRL
Utsuro, Takehito, Toyohashi University of Technology
Eguchi, Koji, NII
Oyama, Keizo, NII
Okumura, Akitoshi, NEC
Okumura, Manabu, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kaji, Hiroyuki, Hitachi
Kato, Tsuneaki, Tokyo Univ.
Kando, Noriko, NII
Kishida, Kazuaki, Surugadai Univ./NII
Kuriyama, Kazuko, Shirayuri Univ.
Kurohashi, Sadao, Tokyo Univ.
Sasaki, Hiroshi, NTT
Sekine, Satoshi, New York Univ.
Takano, Akihiko, NII
Nakaiwa, Hiromi, ATR
Nanba, Hidetsugu, Hiroshima City Univ.
Fukushima, Takahiro, Ottemon Gakuin Univ.
Fukumoto, Jun'ichi, Ritsumeikan Univ.
Fujii, Atsushi, University of Library and Information Science/CREST
Masui, Fumito, Mie Univ.
Masuyama, Shigeru, Toyohashi University of Technology
Murata, Masaki, CRL

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Program Chair:
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Masui, Fumito
Department of Information Engineering, Mie University,
Email: masui@shiino.info.mie-u.ac.jp
Address: 1515, Kamiham-cho, Tsu, Japan 514-8507


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Registration Fee:
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14,000 YEN(includes a hotel reservation)
4,000 YEN(registration only)

Submission Form

* Please fill the form and send it back to the submission address　(nlc-sympo2002@shiino.info.mie-u.ac.jp) by Email.
* If you cannot receive response to your submission, pleasecontact us.


1. Presentation Style: (A)Oral, (B)Poster, (C)Both
2. Title:
3. Author:
4. Organization:
5. Keywords:
6. Demonstration: YES/NO
7. Contact Information(Name,Address,Email):
8. Abstract(about 400 words):


9. Question or Comments: