東アジア言語を主な対象とした情報検索などの情報アクセス技術に関するワーク ショップであるIRALは、2001年および2002年に開催できなかったのですが、2003 年は7月にACL2003が札幌で開催されるのに合わせてそのワークショップの一つと して7月7日に開催することになりました。 論文締切りの4月15日に近づきましたので、投稿をお願い致したく、CFP をもう 一度お届け致します。 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. Authors should pay special attention to the preparation of PDF files which include Asain fonts. Please refer to the IRAL2003 home page http://research.nii.ac.jp/IRAL2003/ on how to prepare PDF files, as well as details such as electronic submission and style files. Submission shoule be sent to email: iral2003@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: PC co-chair : Jun Adach, NII, Japan PC co-chair : Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Christopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological Institute,Singapore Dong-Hong Ji, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Gary Geunbae Lee, Postech, Korea Hae-Chang Rim, Korean University, Korea Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tokyo University, Japan Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore Jain-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada Joon Ho Lee, Soongsil University, Korea Koji Eguchi, NII, Japan Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China Noriko Kando, NII, Japan Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia 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: j_adachi@nii.ac.jp ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++