RegICON 2017: Regional International Conference on Natural Language Processing 2017 IIITM Imphal, India, November 3-4, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.regicon2017.co.in/ |
Abstract registration deadline | August 11, 2017 |
Submission deadline | October 30, 2017 |
A regional version of ICON (As a part of ICON 2017 to be held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)
The Natural Language Association of India (NLPAI) has recently taken an initiative to promote NLP conferences or symposia focusing on regional languages of India. One such symposium was held in December 2014, co-located with ICON-2014 at Goa, focused on Dravidian languages. In 2015 it was held at Punjabi University, Patiala. Last year it was held at IIT BHU as a part of ICON 2016. The idea is to motivate NLP work on languages of various regions of India, including those which are not "official" languages (i.e., not scheduled), and to disseminate such work to the larger community. Such a conference or symposium will allow researchers with common interests to come together and share their results and have discussions. In continuation of that policy, it has been decided that the next regional conference (regICON 2017) will be held at Indian Institute of Information Technology Manipur (IIITM) and it will be focused on 16 languages of the eastern region of India, specially the NE language. The work featured at the conference will include building NLP tools and systems and creating computationally useful resources for their respective languages. Some languages of interest include all the languages in the North-Eastern states (Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh) and also the languages of West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The conference (regICON: Regional ICON) will feature papers and presentations on various researches conducted on the theme - Indic Language Processing: Situation, Challenges and Solutions - conducted by researchers from universities and institutions from Globe. It will also include keynote talks by distinguished invited speakers and a panel discussion. We seek participation of researchers from both computer science and linguistics backgrounds.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers
List of Topics
- Basic Core Technologies: Morphological Analysis, Disambiguation, Tokenization, POS Tagging, Named Entity Detection, Chunking, Parsing, Semantic Role Labeling, Sentiment Analysis, Etc. Linguistics: Morphology, Phonetics And Phonology, Syntax, Semantics And Pragmatics Applications: Machine Translation, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Optical Character Recognition, Pedagogy, Assistive Technologies, Social Media, Etc. Resources: Dictionaries, Annotated Data, Etc.
- Not limited to the above mention topics but related to NLP.
Committees
Advisory Committee
- A K Das IIIT Manipur, India
- Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad, India
- Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Patna, India
- Rajeev Sangal, IIT BHU, India
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
Program Committee
- Amitava Das, IIIT Sricity, India
- Anupam Jamatia, NIT Agartala , India
- Asif Ekbal IIT Patna, India
- Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India
- Kabita Thaoroijam, IIIT Manipur, India
- Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, IIIT Manipur, India
- Kunal chakma, NIT Agartala , India
- Leihaorambam Sarbajit Singh, IIIT Manipur, India
- Navanath Saharia, IIIT Manipur, India
- Partha Pakray NIT, Mizoram, India
- Sanasam Ranbir Singh, IIT Guwahati, India
- Santanu Pal, Saarland University, Germany
- Shikhar Kr. Sarma, Gauhati University, India
- Sudip Kumar Naskar, Jadavpur University, India
- Thoudam Doren Singh, IIIT, Manipur
to be updated...
Organizing committee
- Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, IIIT Manipur, India
- Thoudam Doren Singh, IIIT, Manipur
- Navanath Saharia, IIIT Manipur, India
- Kabita Thaoroijam, IIIT Manipur, India
Logistic committee
- Bhargab Deka, IIIT Manipur, India
- Gaurav Saxena, IIIT Manipur, India
- Kishor Kumar Das, IIIT Manipur, India
- Leihaorambam Sarbajit Singh, IIIT Manipur, India
- Murli Manohar, IIIT Manipur, India
- Nagesh Ch, IIIT Manipur, India
- Subasit Borah, IIIT Manipur, India
Publication
' EXTENDED VERSIONS OF SELECTED PAPERS WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR PRESENTATION IN AN WORKSHOP OF MAIN ICON 2017 CONFERENCE AT JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA '
Venue
The conference will be held at Indian Institute of Information Technology Manipur, India
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to regicon2017@gmail.com