NIIの江口と申します． IRAL2003という国際ワークショップのCFPをご案内いたします． ACL2003と連続して札幌にて開催される予定です． DBS研が協賛団体の一つとなっております．是非ご投稿ください． ____________________________________________________ 江口浩二＠国立情報学研究所 E-mail: eguchi@nii.ac.jp ======== CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages - IRAL2003 7 July, 2003 Sapporo Convention Center, Sapporo, JAPAN Sponsored by National Institute of Informatics, Japan In cooperation with: ACM SIGIR Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing(pending) SIG-DBS, Information Processing Society of Japan(pending) SIG-KLP, Korea Information Science Society (pending) SIG-NLP, Information Processing Society of Japan(pending) Singapore Computer Society(pending) URL: http://research.nii.ac.jp/IRAL2003 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The purpose of the IRAL is to bring together researchers and developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting results in the field of information retrieval with an emphasis on the issues related to Asian languages and multilingual applications. The first workshop was held in Korea, 1996, and then we had 4 more workshops in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Unfortunately, because of organizing difficulties in the steering committee members of participating Asian countries, we could not hold workshops in 2001 and 2002. In IRAL2000 in Hong Kong, we collocated the workshop just before ACL2000. In the Year 2003, we have ACL2003 in Sapporo, Japan (http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/), and we proposed to have IRAL workshop as one of ACL supported workshops. We regard having our workshop within ACL2003 as a good chance to restart periodical gathering of IR research community. Best papers will be considered for publication in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/~talip. TOPICS IRAL2003 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information storage and retrieval, but topics contributed to Asian languages are encouraged. The technical issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to: IR theory Experimentation: test collection, corpus, evaluation methodology Systems and Implementation issues: integration with network and database system. Natural language processing related issues: Questioning and Answering, summarization, cross-lingual IR, term extraction Information filtering, routing and text classification Application of IR technology Web related issues: web mining, search engine, INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors of papers are invited to submit original contributions, not exceeding 5000 words in English to the Program Chair of IRAL2003 by e-mail. Details such as electronic submission and style files will be announced on the IRAL2003 home page. Dr. Jun Adachi Email: j_adachi@nii.ac.jp IMPORTANT DATES 15 April, 2003: The deadline for receipt of papers 14 May, 2003: Notification of result to authors (by email) 30 May, 2003: Final manuscript due in camera ready format GENERAL CHAIR: Professor Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan WORKSHOP STEERING COMMITTEE: Jun Adachi, NII, Japan Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan Mun-Kew Leong, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam Nat. Univ., Korea PROGRAM COMMITTEE: to be announced PC co-chair : Jun Adach, NII, Japan PC co-chair : Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (Now we are inviting the following people to the PC.) Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Koji Eguchi, NII, Japan Dong-Hong Ji, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Suliman Hawamdeh, Nanyang Technological Institute,Singapore Noriko Kando, NII, Japan Kazuaki Kishida, Surugadai University, Japan Christopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological Institute,Singapore Gun-Bae Lee, POSTECH, Korea Joon Ho Lee, Soongsil University, Korea Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tokyo University, Japan Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, nght@comp.nus.edu.sg Jain-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Hae-Chang Rim, Korean University, Korea Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China(?) CONTACT: Dr Jun Adachi National Institute of Informatics (NII) 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430 Japan tel: +81-3-4212-2620, 2510 fax: +81-3-3556-1916 e-mail: iral2003@nii.ac.jp ========