2003 International Conference on
Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE)
Oct 26-29, 2003 -- Beijing, China

ORGANIZATIONSECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Chair

2003 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLPKE’03, will be held on Oct. 26-29, 2003, in Beijing, China. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers
reporting original and previously unpublished work. Papers are to be submitted electronically, as PDF or
WORD files. The required format for the paper is illustrated in appendix. Only the full papers received
before the deadline will be considered for review. The length of a paper is limited to 6 pages and extra pages
will be charged. Proposals of special sessions and tutorials on hot topics are more than welcome.

Fuji Ren (Japan)

International Advisory Committee
Co-Chairs
Christian Boitet (France)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy)
TSUJII Jun’ichi (Japan)
Lotfi Zadeh (US)
Ruslan Mitkov (UK)
Zixin Zhuang (China)

Program Committee Chair

The Important Dates
Deadline of Paper Submission: 30 Jun 2003
Deadline for Session Proposals: 30 Jun 2003

Camera-ready Paper Submission: 15 Aug 2003
Acceptance Notification:
31 Jul 2003

Paper Submission Address: nlpke@bupt.edu.cn

Yixin Zhong (China)

The topics of the conference include, but not limited to, the following
Program Committee Co-Chairs
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico)Kang K. Yen (US)Chengqing Zong (China)

Organizing Committee Co-Chairs
Mengqi Zhou (China)
Youqi Cao (China)

Publication Co-chairs
Amaury Caballero (US)Mengqi Zhou (China)

Publicity Chair
Weiquan Liu (China)

SPONSORS
Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence
Chinese Institute of Electronics
Chinese Information Processing Society
Network and Multimedia Lab, Beijing

Technical Co-Sponsors
IEEE Signal Processing SocietyIEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics SocietyIEEE Beijing Section

Supporters
Natural Science Foundation of China
Chinese Association for Science and Technology

A. Fundamental NLP Technologies
A-01 Word Sense Disambiguation
A-02 Language Modeling
A-03 Speech Recognition
A-04 Text-To-Speech Synthesis
A-05 Spoken Language Processing
A-06 Dialog Strategy and Technology
A-07 Natural Language Learning
A-08 Natural Language Generation

A-09 Natural Language Understanding
A-10 Evaluation of Natural Language Systems
A-11 Lexical Resources and Corpora
A-12 Corpora Linguistics
A-13 Ontology
A-14 Relation between Statistic andLinguistic Approaches
A-15 New Approaches to NLP and NLU

B. Major Applications of NLP
B-01 Machine Translation
B-02 Multiple Language Translation
B-03 Multi-lingual, Multi-Function
and Multi-Media Systems
B-04 Information Retrieval
B-05 Information Extraction
B-06 Text Categorization
B-07 Text Summarization

B-08 E-mail Rubbish Filtering System
B-09 Web-page Security Monitoring
B-10 Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog
B-11 Tour-Guide System
B-12 Applications in E-Commerce
B-13 Applications in Education
B-14 Applications in Large-scale International Events
B-15 Other Applications

C. Knowledge Engineering in NLP
C-01 Text Mining
C-02 Knowledge Acquisition
C-03 Knowledge Representation
C-04 Machine Learning
C-05 Multi-Agent Systems

C-06 Pattern Recognition and Scientific Law Discovery
C-07 Uncertainty Management in Data Mining
C-08 Induction-Based Knowledge Creation from Information
C-09 Deduction-Based Knowledge Creation
C-10 Issues Related to Knowledge Theory

D. Special Forum on NLP Standards and Evaluations
Forum will be organized to discuss the basic issues of NLP standards and evaluations during the conference. .

Ministry of Science and Technology of China

Organizers
Beijing University of Posts & Telecomm
Chinese Institute of Electronics

Contact Information
Program: cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn
Conference: mqzhou@public.bta.net.cn

More information by accessing web-sites:
http://www.cie-china.org or
http://caai.org.cn

Members of Program Committee (in Alphabetical Order)
Eneko Agirre (sp), Kenji Araki (jp), Kalina Bontcheva (uk), Keh-Jiann Chen (tw), Zhaoxiong Chen (cn),Key-Sun Choi (kr), Zhendong Dong (cn), Walter Daelemans (be), Limin Du (cn), Antje Duesterhoeft (de),Zhiwei Feng (cn), Koiti Hasida (jp), Edurad Hovy (us), Chu-Ren Huang (tw), Heyan Huang (cn), TaiyiHuang (cn), Aravind Joshi (us), Martin Kay (us), Kenji Kita (jp), Richard Kittredge (us), Shingo Kuroiwa(jp), K L Kwok (us), Kim-Teng Lua (sg), Robert W. P. Luk (hk), Qing Ma (jp), Petros Maragos (gr),Elisabeth Metais (fr), Dam Moldovan (us), Diego Molla (au), Jian-Yun Nie (ca), Wee Keong Ng (sg), TedPedersen (us), Manuel Polomar (sp), Horacio Rodriguez (sp), Ivan Sag (us), Hong Chi Shi (us), Grigori
Sdiorov (mx), John Tait (uk), Keh-Yih Su (tw), Junping Sun (us), Maosong Sun (cn), Hans Uszkoreit (de)Felisa Verdejo (sp), Manuel Vilares-Ferro (sp), Cong Wang (cn), Xiaojie Wang (cn), Vorick Wilks (uk),Dekai Wu (hk), Fei Xia (us), Bo Xu (cn), Tianshun Yao (cn), David Yarowsky (us), Shiwen Yu (cn),ZaharinYusoff (my), Bo Zhang (cn)