Call for Papers
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    Workshop on English-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval
                           July 9 Sunday
   
                          A constituent of
       2000 International Conference on Chinese Language Computing
             Hotel W Chicago Lake Shore, Chicago, USA
                         July 8 - 9, 2000
                http://www.ksi.edu/seke/clc00.html

                       In conjunction with
              Twelfth International Conference on 
        Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
                          July 6-8, 2000
                    Hotel W Chicago Lake Shore
            644 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA
               Tel: 312-943-9200 Fax: 312-943-8077



English-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval

Organized by Kui Lam Kwok and Wai Lam

 
Cross Language (also called Translingual) Information Retrieval (CLIR) 
concerns the research, development and implementation of methods
and systems to facilitate users having one (source) language skill to do
retrieval of collections written in another (target) language.
 
The confluence of factors such as: 
 *  the ease of accessing foreign materials via the worldwide web; 
 *  the growing importance of populous China in many aspects of life such as 
    business and finance, politics and world affairs, science and technology, 
    etc.; 
 *  the fact that English is practically the world language; 
renders Enlgish-Chinese CLIR not only an interesting topic, but of great
importance and utility as well.
 
Topics in English-Chinese CLIR include (but not limited to) the
following:
 
 *  translation methods for queries and documents such as: dictionary-
    MT-, corpus-based, etc.
 *  techniques for disambiguating translation results.
 *  Multilingual IR.
 *  Conceptual retrieval.
 *  summarization.
 *  entity identification, extraction.
 *  topic detection, tracking and filtering.
 *  models for CLIR.
 *  tools and resources: bilingual dictionaries, thesaurii, translation
    software, parallel corpora, alignment software, POS taggers, word
    segmenters, lexicons, terminology, abbreviation, acronym lists, etc.
 
 
Paper Submission:

 Papers should be written in English and not longer than 25 typed pages.
 Please send five paper copies of the complete manuscript (fax not
 acceptable) including an abstract of not more than 200 words before 
 January 20, 2000 to the following:

For authors from Asia and Australia:
Prof. W. Lam
Dept. of Systems Engg. & Engg. Mngt,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin
Hong Kong, P.R. China
email: wlam@se.cuhk.edu.hk
tel +852 2609 8306
fax +852 2603 5505

For authors from other areas:
Prof. K.L. Kwok
Computer Science Department
Queens College, City University of New York
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11367, USA
email: kwok@ir.cs.qc.edu
tel: 718 997 3482
fax: 718 997 3513

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2000
Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2000
Camera Ready Copies due: March 21, 2000
Workshop Date: July 9, 2000

Program Committee:

Kui Lam Kwok (Chair, City University of New York, USA)
Wai Lam (Co-Chair, The Chinese University, Hong Kong)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Lee-Feng Chien (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)