welcome to ICON 2010

The 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2010) will be held at IIT Kharagpur, India, during 8-11 December, 2010.

The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. The conference will be preceded by a day of pre-conference tutorials on December 8, 2010.

paper topics

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India. Authors must mark the topic of their paper at the time of submission categories in a sac a outils.

tracks at ICON 2010

Authors have to submit the papers under any one of the following categories:

Position Papers

call for tutorials/workshops

Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.

Send tutorial/Workshop proposals to the ICON-2010 Secretariat. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2010 Secretariat.

contests at ICON 2010

There will be 2 contests at ICON 2010. The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India.

important dates

The following are key dates for ICON 2010:

about ICON 2010

The Eighth International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2010) will be held at IIT Kharagpur, India during 8-11 December, 2010. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. The conference will be preceded by a day of pre-conference tutorials on December 8, 2010.

The conference is being organized by NLP Association, India; International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India; Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; and Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), CIIL, Mysore.

call for tutorials

Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, a one page topical outline of the content, and a description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content.

Send your tutorial proposal to the ICON-2010 Secretariat. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2010 Secretariat.

Currently Scheduled Tutorials

call for workshops

Proposals are invited for pre-conference workshops. Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, a one page topical outline of the content, and a description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the workshop content.

Send your Workshop proposal to the ICON-2010 Secretariat. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2010 Secretariat.

Currently Scheduled Workshops
Workshop1: Indowordnet Workshop

contests for participants

There will be 2 contests at ICON 2010. The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India.

2nd NLP TOOLS CONTEST on Indian Language Dependency Parsing

The ICON09 tools contest on Indian language (IL) dependency parsing was enthusiastically received among researchers. Many varied parsers were implemented, and baseline performance was set for Hindi, Telugu and Bangla. Crucial parsing issues, many IL specific, came to light and were discussed.

However, efficient Indian Language (IL) parsing still remains a challenging task. This contest aims to bring together researchers working/interested in the area of IL parsing to explore techniques that can further improve the present accuracies, by providing larger data sets for Hindi and more revised data for Telugu and Bangla.

The Contest
Participants will be provided training, development and testing data to report the efficiency of their dependency parsers. Hindi, Bangla, and Telugu will be explored. Parser efficiency will be measured in terms of standard measures such as Unlabelled Attachment Accuracy and Labelled Attachment Accuracy.

Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results work in a special session at ICON. Note that it is not necessary that the participating parser be a statistical one - other types, such as grammar driven parsers or hybrid parsers can also participate.

Prizes
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000

For more information about the contest, please click here.

Student Paper Competition In Language Technologies

ICON-2010 announces a Student Paper Competition in two tracks:

Track I: NLP (All areas)
Track II: Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)

Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out.

Prizes
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000

The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper.

Upto 2 winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact the Student Paper Competition Chair on icon2010@iiit.ac.in.

organizing bodies
NLP Association, India
IIIT Hyderabad
LDC-IL, CIIL
IIT Kharagpur
latest updates
4th Nov 2010

Complete list of accepted papers released.

2nd Nov 2010

The technical schedule has been released.

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contact us
ICON-2010 Secretariat

Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500032, India
Tel: +91-40.66531144
Fax: +91-40.66531413
icon2010@iiit.ac.in

technical schedule

The following is the Schedule of tutorials, keynote lectures and technical sessions at the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), 2010:

Pre Conference Tutorials and Workshop Technical Programme Schedule

Dec 8, Wednesday
08:00-09:30 Registration
Tutorials Hall I Hall II
09:30-13:00 Tutorial 1:

Organization of the Mental Lexicon: From Cognition to Computation
Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu, Monojit Choudhury Tutorial 2:

Building Morphological Analyzers and Generators for Indian Languages using FST
Amba Kulkarni, G UmaMaheshwar Rao,
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30 Tutorial 1: Contd…

Organization of the Mental Lexicon: From Cognition to Computation
Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu, Monojit Choudhury Tutorial 2: Contd…

Building Morphological Analyzers and Generators for Indian Languages using FST
Amba Kulkarni, G UmaMaheshwar Rao,

Workshop Hall III
09:30-13:00 Workshop:

Indowordnet
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30 Workshop: Contd…

Indowordnet
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India

Main Conference Technical Programme Schedule

Dec 9, Thursday
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Inaugural Session
09:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture 1: NLP and IR: Coming Closer or Moving Apart?
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
10:30-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-13:00 Technical Session I: Dialogues and Query
Learning Automata based Approach to Model Dialogue Strategy in Spoken Dialogue System: A Performance Evaluation
G Kumaravelan, R Sivakumar

Exploring Sentence level Query Expansion in Language Model
Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Levelling, Gareth Jones

Insights on Transferability of Dialog-Act Cue-Phrases Across Communication Domains, Modality and Semantically Similar Dialog-Acts
Ashish Sureka, Atul Goyal

A Simple Unsupervised Query Categorizer for Web Search Engines
Prashant Ullegaddi, Vasudeva Varma
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15.30 Technical Session II: Lexicon and Semantics Technical Session III: Text Mining
Identification of MWEs Using CRF in Manipuri and Improvement Using Reduplicated MWEs
Kishorjit Nongmeikapa, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Mental Representation and Access of Polymorphemic Words in Bangla: Evidence from Cross-modal Priming Experiments
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu

An Iterative approach to extract dictionaries from wikipedia for under-resourced languages
Rohit Bharadwaj G, Niket Tandon, Vasudeva Varma

Semantically Driven Soft-clustering of Documents using Lexical Chains
Dipti Deodhare, Govind Sharma, Ashish Srivastava, Alind Sharma

Learning grounded semantics of Hindi nouns from video surveillance and user commentary
Gopi Srinath S V P, Nikhil Joshi, Prabhat Mudgal, Amitabha Mukerjee

15:30-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-17:30 Technical Session IV: Sentiment Analysis Technical Session V: NLP Tools Contest on Indian Language Dependency Parsing
Cross-Domain Sentiment Tagging Using Meta-Classifier and a High Accuracy In-Domain Classifier
Balamurali A R, Debraj Manna, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Emotion Analysis of Internet Chat
Shashank Chauhan, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Identifying Emotion Holder and Topic from Bengali Emotional Sentences
Dipankar Das, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Presentations by contest participants (Details will be provided soon to you.)
17:30-19:00 NLPAI Meeting
19:00-20:30 Cultural Programme
20:30 onwards Dinner

Main Conference Technical Programme Schedule

Dec 10, Friday
09:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture 2: Supporting Group Work with Language Technologies
Carolyn P. Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
10:00-10:30 Tea Break
10:30-12:30 Technical Session VI
Morphology and Syntax Technical Session VII
Student Paper Competition
Probabilistic approach for automatic last suffix extraction
Vasudevan N, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Arabic-French morphological alignment for syntactic disambiguation of Arabic text
Ines Turki Khemakhem, Salma Jamoussi, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou

Performance Evaluation of Text Chunking
Suchismita Biswas, Arnab Dhar, Sankar De, Utpal Garain

Syntactic Normalization of Twitter Messages
Joseph Kaufmann, Jugal Kalita Identification of Noun-Noun (N-N) Collocations as Multi-Word Expressions in Bengali Corpus
Tanmoy Chakraborty

A Novel Algorithm for Tamil Morphological generator
Anand Kumar M, Rekha R U

Can We Mimic Human Pragmatics Knowledge into Computational Lexicon?
Amitava Das
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:00-15:15 Poster Sessions and Demonstrations
15:00-15:15 Tea Break
15:15-16:45 Technical Session VIII
Machine Translation Technical Session IX
Miscellaneous Applications
Implementation of Subject-Predicate Agreement in Hindi and Telugu: A Machine Translation Perspective
Christopher Mala, G Uma Maheshwar Rao

Statistically Motivated Example-based Machine Translation using Translation Memory
Sandipan Dandapat, Sara Morrissey, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Harold Somers

METEOR-Hindi : Automatic MT Evaluation Metric for Hindi as a Target Language
Ankush Gupta, Sriram Venkatapathy, Rajeev Sangal Designing Soft Keyboards for Brahmic Scripts
Lauren Hinkle, Miguel Lezcano, Jugal Kalita

A novel multi-trie based approach for Spell-Checking
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri, Subhadeep Banik

An Empirical Approach for Optimization of Acoustic Models in Hindi Speech Recognition Systems
Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal, Mayank Dave
16:45-17:15 Concluding Session

Post Conference Tutorials Technical Programme Schedule

Dec 11, Saturday
Tutorials Hall I Hall II
09:30-13:00 Tutorial 3:
Detection of Plagiarism and Text Reuse

Paolo Rosso, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño Tutorial 4:
Anaphora Resolution

Sobha L
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:30 Tutorial 3: Contd…
Detection of Plagiarism and Text Reuse

Paolo Rosso, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño Tutorial 4: Contd…
Anaphora Resolution

Sobha L

submit papers

Papers in English, not exceeding 10 pages, should be submitted at www.iiit.ac.in/icon2010. One can also submit hard copies (four copies) under special circumstances. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200 words. Papers outside the specified length are subject to rejection without review. Please see the style file at www.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ftp/Styfiles/Proceedings.

BLIND REVIEW

Kindly ensure that authors’ names and affiliations are given only on a separate cover sheet. Papers in electronic form can be in plain text, Postscript, PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF only). If your paper contains text of languages other than English, please attach relevant font files along with your submission.

Please refer to this link for important dates.

important dates

Paper Submission
Paper acceptance notification: Sep 15, 2010
Paper acceptance notification: Oct 1, 2010
Paper registration deadline: Jul 25, 2010
Paper submission deadline: Jul 25, 2010
Camera ready copy due: Oct 15, 2010

Tutorial/Workshop Proposals
Tutorial/Workshop proposals due: Aug 7, 2010
Tutorial acceptance notification: Aug 16, 2010
Lecture Materials for tutorial: Nov 7, 2010

NLP Tools Contest
Registration: Aug 3, 2010

Student Paper Competition
Submission: Aug 7, 2009

organizing committees

The 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing is being organized by is being organized by NLP Association, India; International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India; Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; and Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL), CIIL, Mysore. This is the list of distinguished people on the various committees organizing the conference:

Advisory Committee

Aravind K Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Chair)
Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo,Japan
B. Yegnanarayana, IIIT Hyderabad, India

Conference General

Rajeev Sangal, IIIT, Hyderabad, India (Chair)

Program Committee

Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad (Chair)
Sudeshna Sarkar, IIT, Kharagpur (Co-Chair)
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
Srinivas Bangalore, AT and T Research, USA
Peri Bhaskararao, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, USA
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
Amba P Kulkarni, University of Hyderabad, India
A Kumaran. Microsoft Research India
B.Mallikarjun, CIIL Mysore, India
Hema A. Murthy, IIT Madras, India
Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, USA
Achla M Raina, IIT Kanpur, India
L Ramamoorthy, CIIL Mysore, India
Owen Rambow, University of Columbia, USA
Udaya Narayana Singh, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India
K V Subbarao, University of Delhi, India
Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Vasudeva Varma, IIIT, Hyderabad
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
Fei Xia, University of Washington, USA

Tools Contest

Samar Husain, IIIT, Hyderabad (Chair)
Prashanth Mannem, IIIT Hyderabad

Student Paper Competition

Sobha L, AU-KBC, Chennai (Chair)

Organizing

Anupam Basu, IIT Kharagpur, India
R K Bagga, IIIT, Hyderabad, India (Chair)

contact us

ICON-2010 Secretariat

Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500032, India
Tel: +91-40.66531144
Fax: +91-40.66531413
icon2010@iiit.ac.in