Organizers
Michael Kuehn (University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz)
Mun-Kew Leong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
One of the strongest impacts in recent information
technology is the way mobility has changed computer applications. The
rapid rate of handphone adoption, the ubiquitous PDA, and the low cost
of wireless adoption has created new problems, new challenges, and new
opportunities to researchers in many disciplines. One common thread through
all these applications is the necessity for information retrieval and
mobile text processing in one form or another. Another characteristic
is the limited size of mobile devices and the consequent need for sophisticated
methods of text input and output. Other applications with a similar need
of language technology support under challenging conditions include e.g.
communication aids and authoring tools.
The use of NLP plays an integral part in creating better user interfaces,
more efficient text input technologies, authoring aids, summarization
and analysis of output for precise display, and greater understanding
in the interactive dialogue between user and applications working on text.
We invite researchers focusing on
- text input and output technologies,
- language modeling,
- summarization,
- mobile database & information retrieval and
management,
- speech and dialogue IR applications on mobile
devices,
and HCI researchers on text retrieval and processing systems to explore
user oriented and theoretical limits and characteristics of NLP for front-end
and back-end solutions within the context of text retrieval and processing
user interfaces.
Submission
The submission procedures and deadline for thematic
sessions are the same as those for the main conference
Programme Committee
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei
Jean-Pierre Chevallet, CNRS, Grenoble
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Yokosuka
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Dublin
Min Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nils Klarlund, Clairgrove LLC, New Jersey
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Pohang
Mu Li, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing
Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware, Newark
Sung Hyon Myaeng, ICU, Daejeon
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
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