S.K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

Y.H. Chu, Washington D. C.

C.N. Liu, Century Development Inc., Taipei

K.T. Wang, Chunghwa Telecom, Taipei

J.S. Ke, III, Taipei

T.C. Yang, Feng Chia University, Taichung

M. Chao, Feng Chia University, Taichung

P. Wang, Northeastern University, Boston

K.F. Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

J.H. Lee, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Pohang

Y.C. Chung, Feng Chia University, Taichung

K. Chang, Auburn University, Auburn

H.H. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei

K.J. Chen, Academic Sinica, Taipei

C. Chu, University of California, Berkeley

C.C. Chu, Tung Hai University, Taichung

C.R. Dow, Feng Chia University, Taichung

J.T. Horng, National Central University, Taoyuan

I.L. Huang, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

W. Hwang, IBM, Yorktown Heights

K.L. Kwok, City University of New York, New York

L. Lam, Institute of Education, Hong Kong

H.J. Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu

S.W. Lee, Korea University, Seoul

M.K. Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore

M.H. Li, Asian American Heritage Council, New Brunswick

R.Z. Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tung University, Shanghai

J.H. Ma, University of Aizu, Fukushima

M. Ma, Panasonic Technologies, Inc., Princeton

C.Y. Suen, Concordia University, Toronto

T. Shih, Tamkang University, Taipei

B.K. T'sou, City University of Hong Kong

H.C. Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

J.F. Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

S.Wang, Renmin University, Beijing

X.W. Xu, Siemens, Erlangen

C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

T. Yao, North East University, Shengyang

C. F. Yuan, Tsing Hua University, Beijing

The International Conference on Chinese Language Computing serves as a forum for academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to discuss the application of new computer technologies to Chinese and Oriental languages computing. The issues considered include all aspects of computer processing of Chinese and Oriental languages: input, character recognition, speech recognition, automatic translation, teaching and retrieval from archives and web. Of special interests are web-based applications, e-commerce, multilingual distance learning and the use of XML in multilingual applications. Submissions of proposals to organize a session, a panel or a tutorial are also being solicited.

Related topics that address these themes include, but not limited to the following:

Chinese WWW

Chinese E-Commerce

Computer-based Chinese Education

Web-based Tools for Chinese Teaching as a Second Language

Automated Language Translation

Chinese PDA Architecture

XML for Chinese Language Computing

Knowledge Representation of Chinese Languages

Speech Understanding

Character Recognition

Papers must be written in English. Please send four copies of the complete manuscript with a 200-word abstract and no more than 25 pages of double-spaced text (including figures and references) before January 25, 2002 to the above address. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings.

Workshop on Virtual University for Multilingual Education

Session on Character Recognition and Input Methods

Session on English-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval

Session on Large Scale Chinese Databases

Panel on E-learning, E-commerce and E-entertainment

The international journal of computer processing of oriental languages (IJCPOL) has been contacted for a possible publication of a special issue for best papers in this conference.

Submissions Deadline: January 25, 2002

Notification of Acceptance: March 5, 2002