[ntcir:234] CPF: Special Issue on CLIR and QA for IJCLCLP

[Wen-Hsiang Lu <whlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Call for Papers

International Journal of
Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing

Special Issue on
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval and Question Answering


Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) and cross-lingual question
answering (CLQA) have recently gained more attentions as different ways
of cross-lingual information access for different needs. CLIR and CLQA
are much more complicated challenges compared with monolingual IR and
monolingual QA. Many practical problems are to be solved to make their
techniques more effective. For examples, they need to deal with
query/question translation, question classification, document retrieval,
and answering. In recent years, a number of techniques have been made to
improve the state of the art. The goal of this special issue is to
solicit papers showing recent advances and applications in CLIR and
CLQA. Prospective authors are invited to submit their works to this
special issue. Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:

・瘢雹Statistical models or language models for CLIR and CLQA
・瘢雹Query/question translation
・瘢雹Unknown word translation or name entity translation
・瘢雹Question analysis/classification
・瘢雹Passage/answer extraction
・瘢雹Cross-lingual retrieval
・瘢雹Cross-lingual categorization and classification
・瘢雹Cross-lingual text mining
・瘢雹Cross-lingual semantic analysis
・瘢雹Machine translation/transliteration
・瘢雹Resource for CLIR and CLQA


Important Dates

Submission deadline: June 30, 2007
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2007
Camera-ready due: December 15, 2007
Tentative publication date: March 2008


Instructions for Authors

All manuscripts are subject to anonymous peer review. The style for
manuscript is available at the homepage of International Journal of
Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
(http://www.aclclp.org.tw/journal/index.php). The authors should submit
their papers in PDF to one of the guest editors.


Guest Editors

Wen-Hsiang Lu (whlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Dept. of Computer Science & Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung
University, Taiwan

Jianfeng Gao (jfgao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Microsoft Research, USA

Min-Yen Kan (kanmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Cheng-Zen Yang (czyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan