ACM TALIP Special Issue on RITE: CFP

Dear NTCIR-9 RITE participants,

Thank you for your participation at NTCIR-9 RITE (Recognizing Inference in TExt) task.

ACM TALIP (Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing) is planning on a Special Issue on RITE for NTCIR-9.We would like to invite the RITE participants to submit a journal paper to Special Issue of ACM TALIP on the NTCIR-9 RITE by **substantially** expanding your work which you presented at the NTCIR-9 Workshop Meeting. For example, you may want to update/redo your systems, reevaluate them, compare with your previous results, and analyze them with scientific discussions. Your paper should not be just an explanation of your systems.

ACM regulation requires a submitted journal paper to have at least 25% new content when compared to a previously published version of the paper in a conference or workshop. So the papers appearing in NTCIR-9 workshop will need to be expanded by at least 25%. A good paper length to aim for is minimum of 20 pages per paper with the page length based on TALIP style.In addition, according to the ACM policy, the journal article must involve at least one Asian language. The language requirement is already met, since the RITE task involves Asian languages.

The papers submitted will undergo a standard reviewing process. For detail, please visit:
http://talip.acm.org/

Please note that this invitation does not guarantee that your paper will eventually be accepted.

*** Important Dates ***

The submission and review schedule is in the following:

* Submission of Title& Abstract (optional): 23 April 2012 (Mon)
* Submission deadline: 7 May 2012 (Mon) Extended to 11 May 2012 (Fri)
* Completion of first round of reviews: 14 Jun 2012 (Thur)
* First notification: 21 Jun 2012 (Thur)
* Revisions Due: 28 July 2012 (Sat)
* Completion of second round of reviews: 28 Aug 2012 (Tue)
* Notification of final acceptance: 4 Sept 2012 (Tue)
* Final manuscript due: 24 Sept 2012 (Mon)
* Publication date: Dec 2012 issue of TALIP

*** Submissions ***

Title & Abstract Submission page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specialissueonntcir9

Full Paper Submission page:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/acm


We hope you will utilize this opportunity and make a good contribution to the special issue. We look forward to hearing from you.

*** SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS ***

Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Koichi Takeda (Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Japan)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)