CFP for CLT14 (5th Conference on Language and Technology 2014)

[Tafseer Ahmed]

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CLT14 - SNLP's 5th Conference on Language and Technology 2014

11-13 September, 2014

DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan

http://cs.dsu.edu.pk/clt14/

Call for Papers

The Conference on Language and Technology (CLT) is a biennial conference series organized by Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP; www.snlp.org.pk), Pakistan, aiming to bring together students, researchers and practitioners to exchange research and development in the fields of linguistics and processing of speech, script and language.

 

The Conference on Language and Technology series is an effort to promote the area of research, educate the masses and the decision making authorities to realize the importance of Language and Technology in this modern age of computers. Following are the venues of previous four conferences.

• CLT12, Centre of Language Engineering (CLE), KICS, UET, Lahore

• CLT10, National Language Authority (NLA), Islamabad

• CLT09, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore

• CLT07, Peshawar University, Bara Gali Campus

The 5th CLT will held at DHA Suffa University, a new fast growing university that focuses on the application of science and technology in every day life. Its campus is located in the Defence Housing Society, a peaceful and secure area of Karachi.

 

The program of CLT14 will consist of paper presentation, tutorials, software demos and a shared task about transliteration. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing completed or on-going research or development in the following and related areas.

 

Writing Systems/Orthography, Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Linguistic Resources, Localization, POS Tagging, Morphology, Morphological Analysis, Stemming, Chunking, Word Sense Disambiguation, Grammar Modeling and Parsing, Text Summarization, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Machine Translation, Optical Character Recognition, Computer Assisted Language Learning

         

The calls and submission details for papers, tutorials, demos and shared task are given on the conference website.

Important Dates:

 

Submission Deadline: Sunday, 4th May, 2014 

Notification Date: Thursday, 12th June, 2014  

Camera Ready Submission Deadline: Sunday 29th June, 2014

Conference Date: Thursday-Saturday, 11-13th September, 2014

Organizing Committee:

Conference Chair:          Athar Mahboob, Dean, DHA Suffa University, Karachi 

Conference Co-Chair:     Sarmad Hussain, UET, Lahore & chairperson, SNLP

Technical Cmt. Chair:     Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Publication Cmt. Chair:   Nadir  Durrani, University of Edinburgh, UK

Programme Cmt. Chair:   Tafseer Ahmed, DHA Suffa University, Karachi

Technical Committee:

Tafseer Ahmed, DHA Suffa University, Karachi

Qurat-ul-Ain Akram, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore 

Shyam Agrawal, KIIT group of colleges, India

Bal Krishna Bal, Kathmandu University, Nepal

Pushpak Bhatacharyya, IIT Bombay, India

Tina Bögel, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz, Germany (Chair)

Nadir Durrani, University of Edinburgh, UK

Tania Habib, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore

Annette Hautli, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Tracy Holloway King, eBay, USA

Samar Husain, Universität Potsdam, Germany

Afaq Husain, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia


Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore

Saad Irtza, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore

M. Abid Khan, University of Peshawar, Peshawar

Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Tahira Naseem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Ghulam Raza, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad

Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Hassan Sajjad, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar

Faisal Shafiat, University of Western Australia, Australia

Dipti Sharma, IIT Hyderabad, India

Imran Siddiqi, Bahria University, Islamabad

Sebastian Sulger, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Ruvan Weerasinghe, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Khaver Zia, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

Contact:

Tafseer Ahmed (Programme Cmt. Chair)

Department of Computer Science,

DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Email: taf...@dsu.edu.pk