From: dbracewell@gmail.com   
      
   A Special Session on the Frontiers of Language Processing and   
   Information Retrieval for Asian Languages will be held during the 2007   
   International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern   
   Recognition (AIPR-07). This special session will look at the current   
   trends and state of the art research in language processing and   
   information retrieval for Asian languages. Recently there has been an   
   explosion of research in Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese,   
   etc. The research for these languages are producing extraordinary   
   results. This special session is meant to be a showcase for such   
   research, hopefully creating a dialog between researchers in Asian and   
   non-Asian languages.   
      
   The scope of the special session includes, but is not limited to:   
      
       * Natural Language Processing   
       * Machine Translation   
       * Information Retrieval   
       * Language-based Affective Computing   
       * Dialog Systems   
       * Question & Answering   
       * Language Learning Systems   
       * Spoken Language Processing   
      
   SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:   
   Authors should submit their draft as an email attachment to   
   davidb_at_is.tokushima-u.ac.jp by Feb. 1st, 2007. The draft papers   
   should be no more than 8 pages in IEEE format single spaced, double   
   column, with a font size of 10 to 12. Drafts should be submitted in MS   
   Word, PDF or PS format.   
      
   Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts. All accepted   
   papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title   
   of the session.   
      
   *Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Journal   
   Engineering letters which is indexed by IEE INSPEC, CSA, and others.   
      
   DEADLINES:   
   Draft paper submission due: February 1st 2007   
   Acceptance/rejection decision: March 1st 2007   
   Camera ready paper submission and pre-registration: April 2nd 2007   
   Conference: July 9th-12th, 2007   
      
   CONFERENCE VENUE:   
   Orlando, Florida USA   
   Orlando is the tourist capital of the world. With its numerous theme   
   parks and its close proximity to beaches, visitors are never left   
   wondering what to do.   
      
   SESSION CHAIR:   
   David Bracewell   
   Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems   
   The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan   
   Email: davidb at is.tokushima-u.ac.jp   
      
   Session Website:   
   http://www.promoteresearch.org/2007/aipr/languages.html   
   AIPR-07 Website: http://www.promoteresearch.org/2007/aipr/index.html   
      
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