Conference on Language and Technology 2012 (CLT12)

 
 


University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore
9-10 November, 2012

 


 


Conference on Language and Technology (CLT) is a biennial conference series organized by Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP; www.snlp.org.pk), Pakistan, aiming to bring together students, researchers and practitioners to exchange research and development in the fields of linguistics and processing of speech, script and language.

The Conference on Language and Technology series is an effort to promote the area of research, educate the masses and the decision making authorities to realize the importance of Language and Technology in this modern age of computers. The first conference of this series, CLT07 was organized by Peshawar University, followed by CLT09 hosted by NUCES, Lahore. The third conference, CLT10, was organized by the National Language Authority (NLA), Islamabad.

The program of CLT12 will consist of invited talks, workshops, tutorials, paper presentations and panel discussions. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing completed or on-going research or development in the following related areas.

  • Writing Systems/Orthography
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Linguistic Resources
  • Localization
  • POS Tagging
  • Stemming
  • Morphological Analysis
  • Chunking
  • Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Grammar Modeling and Parsing
  • Text Summarization
  • Speeh Recognition and Synthesis
  • Machine Translation
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning

 

Venue

Center for Language Engineering
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology
G.T. Road, Lahore
Pakistan

Submission Procedure

Full papers and workshop proposals are to be submitted electronically through the online submission system. The papers will go through a double-blind review process. Details of paper format and online submission process are available at http://www.cle.org.pk/clt12

Important Dates

Paper submission by: 2 July, 2012
Workshop proposal by: 2 July, 2012
Demo proposal by: 2 July, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 6 August, 2012
Camera ready version by: 27 August, 2012
Conference: 9-10 November, 2012

Technical Committee

Dr. Abid Khan, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (co-chair)
Dr. Afaq Husain, Riphah University, Pakistan
Dr. Chai Wutiwiwatchai, NECTEC, Thailand
Dr. Douglas Clarke, Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Elena Bashir, University of Chicago, USA
Dr. Ghulam Raza, PIEAS, Pakistan
Dr. Imran Siddiqi, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Khaver Zia, Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan
Dr. Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Dr. Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany (co-chair)
Dr. Muhammad Afzal, KICSIT, Pakistan
Dr. Pushpak Bhatacharyya, IIT Bombay, India
Dr. Rachel Roxas, De La Salle University, Philippines
Dr. Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, KICS-UET, Pakistan
Dr. Seemab Latif, NUST, Pakistan
Dr. Tafseer Ahmed, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC, Thailand
Dr. Yogendra Yadava, Tribhuvan Univ., Kathmandu, Nepal

Organizing Committee

Dr. Sarmad Hussain, KICS-UET, Pakistan (General chair)
Dr. Abid Khan, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (co-chair)
Dr. Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany (co-chair)
Dr. Tafseer Ahmed, University of Konstanz, Germany

For Further Details

Dr. Sarmad Hussain
Professor and Head
Center for Language Engineering (www.cle.org.pk)
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (www.kics.edu.pk)
University of Engineering and Technology (www.uet.edu.pk)
G.T. Road, Lahore
Pakistan
Email: sarmad.hussain@kics.edu.pk
URL: http://www.cle.org.pk/clt12

 

   

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