The 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04) invites the submission of papers to its inaugural meeting to be held in Sanya, Hainan Island, China. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:

• machine translation and multilingual processing
• question answering, information extraction and information retrieval
• natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
• natural language processing for web, knowledge-management systems, text mining
• word segmentation, shallow parsing, tagging and chunking
• parsing, generation and summarization
• language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing
• machine learning for natural language
• software architectures for natural language processing
• syntax, semantics, grammars, morphology and phonology
• discourse and dialogue, natural language interfaces, speech
• lexical semantics and ontologies for NLP
• linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language
• computational psycholinguistics

Requirements

Papers should describe original work. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.

A paper accepted for presentation at the IJCNLP-04 cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Submission Information

Submissions should follow a two-column format and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of IJCNLP-04 LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for IJCNLP-04. The files and a description of the format are available in the submission site.

http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html

Note that full paper submissions are restricted to 8 pages.

Note also that as reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Kim, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Kim, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

Submission Procedure

All papers must be submitted electronically according to the instructions in the submission site. The papers must be submitted no later than Mid-day Japan Standard Time November 17, 2003 (Extended). Papers submitted after that time will not be reviewed (Note that we no longer require early registration for papers.)

Please consult the submission site in which instructions for electronic submission are provided. Questions regarding the submission process should be directed to

ijc-nlp04-submission@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2003 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: December 23, 2003
Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
Main conference: March 22-24, 2004 (Monday-Wednesday)