Second Annual Conference on Khmer Natural language Processing (KNLP 2015) – Call for papers
Nan Mech
Introduction
The Khmer Language Processing Consortium is happy to announce the Second Annual Conference on Khmer Natural language Processing (KNLP 2015), where all its members and others working in this field bring together their work in an effort to collaboratively advance together towards building practical Natural Language Processing for Khmer. The first annual conference took place in October 2014.
The Khmer Natural Language Processing Consortium, created in 2014, groups universities, NGOs, private companies and researchers interested on accelerating – through close coordination and collaboration – the creation of effective natural language processing tools for Khmer language. These tools will be used to improve access to information and communication in this language.
The members of the consortium believe that coordinating research and development among them, and openly sharing their results and data with all other members – whenever legally possible – they will together be able to create the desired tools with the best possible quality in the shortest possible period.
The Consortium is formed by the National Institute of Posts, Telecommunications and ICT (NIPTICT), the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), the NGO Open Institute, The Buddhist Institute and the company Nokor group. It is open to all those working in this field.
KNLP 2015 is a unique, premier meeting of researchers, professional practitioners or implementers whose work might be of value to the development of language processing tools for Khmer, including research on linguistics or phonetics that might be applicable in this field. It provides the opportunity for them to network and discuss various current and advanced issues of interests in NLP that have or might have a relation with Khmer Language.
Call for Papers
The Khmer Natural Language Consortium is pleased to announce the Call For Papers for the KNLP 2015, the Second Annual Conference on Khmer Natural Language Processing. The Conference will take place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on the 4th December 2015. It invites submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports.
Areas of Interest
The Conference will address a range of critically important issues and themes relating to the Khmer Natural Language Processing community. Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas.
The Khmer Language Processing Consortium is inviting proposals for paper presentations that address Khmer Natural Language Processing in one of the following areas:
- Text and Speech processing
- Optical Character recognition for Khmer and similar complex scripts
- Automatic Translation to and from Khmer.
- Interpreting and generating spoken and written language
- Natural language interfaces and dialogue systems
- Pattern recognition, applied NLP systems
- Cognitive aspects of natural language processing
- Computation aspects of natural language processing
- NLP-based knowledge science and service science
- Corpus and Language Resources
- Corpus-based language modeling
- Tools and resources for natural language processing
- Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, NLP Applications
- Semantics, syntax and lexicon
- Evaluation of natural language systems
- Information retrieval and extraction, text mining
- Human processing of language and speech
- Languages for Disability
- Ontology Engineering
- Phonetics, phonology and morphology
- Pragmatics and discourse
Proposal ideas that extend beyond these areas will also be considered.
Paper Submission
Important Dates
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Date |
Description |
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21 September 2015 |
Paper Submission Deadline |
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21 October 2015 |
Acceptance/Rejection Notification |
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4 November 2015 |
Final Submission Deadline |
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4 December 2015 |
Annual Conference |
Contact Information
Khmer Natural Language Processing 2015
Focal Person : Mr. Makara Than
Mobile : +855-89-676771
Email : makar...@niptict.edu.kh
Website : www.khmernlp.org
