You may have a very cool demo but don't have time to package a full size of paper for main conference, or you get a late breaking report but has not yet finished solid evaluation, or you prefer to present your works in an interactive style, this session will provide you an exciting channel to show your cool demos and ideas and get valuable feedbacks at the same time.

The special session for interactive posters and demonstrations provided in IJCNLP-04 will welcome poster/demo presentations with novel ideas and profound applications, or the works that are best presented and discussed in an interactive style. This session will provide a forum of academic and technical exchanges. Presentations from both the academic and industries are welcomed. The topics of interest will cover the same area of the main
conference (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html).

The authors should submit an original paper (no more than 4 pages in IJCNLP format) that describes the problem of the research and the novel methods. Presentations with demos should include an outline of the system design and enough details to allow the evaluation of technical solidness and
usefulness. The equipments required for the demonstration must be provided. The Interactive Poster/Demo papers will be included in a separated proceeding that is in parallel to the main conference proceedings.

Each submission will be blind reviewed by three reviewers. Reviewing will be managed by an international program committee.

Presentation Style

The Interactive Poster/Demo Sessions will run in the afternoons of March 22 and March 23. Each presentation will receive a booth with a 1.8m x 0.6m desk and a 1.8m x 2.1m panel. Network connection and electricity outlets will be supplied to each booth.

Submission Information

Submissions should follow the format of IJCNLP proceedings and should not exceed four (4) pages, including references. Since the reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity should be avoided.

Submission Procedure

All papers must be submitted electronically via email to the following address. Either a PDF or PS file must be sent as an attached file. Please use the first author's surname to name the file. The Subject field should be "IJCNLP-04 Poster/Demo Submission". Please include the name, affiliation and email address of the contact person in the body of your email.

Please submit papers to: mingzhou@microsoft.com


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2004
Notification of acceptance: Feb. 15, 2004
Camera ready papers due: Feb 28, 2004

Program Committee

Chair:
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia

PC members:
Masaaki Nagata, NTT
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Genichiro Kikui, ATR
Sadao Kurohashi, The University of Tokyo
Donghong Ji, Kent Ridge Digital Labs
Jian-Yun Nie, Univ. of Montreal
Dekang Lin, Univ. of Alberta
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH
Jong-Hyeok Lee, POSTECH
Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University
Jun Zhao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tiejun Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology
Qun Liu, China Academy of Science
Haifeng Wang, Toshiba R&D Centre
Kui-Lam Kwok, City University of New York
Dan Moldovan, University of Texas at Dallas
Chin-Yew Lin, ISI/USC
Tilman Becker, DFKI
Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam
Harry Bunt, Tilburg University
Christian Boitet, Universite Joseph Fourier
Michael Zock, LIMSI