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.
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on languages, issues, and applications relevant to India.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.
Authors have to submit the papers under any one of the following categories:
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.
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.
The following are key dates for ICON 2010:
3rd Aug 2010
Tools Contest Registration is now open. Extended Deadline for registration is August 3, 2010.
3rd Aug 2010
Extended NLP Tools Contest Registration August 3, 2010.
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