Special Session on
Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval
at
The 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05)
December 20-22 2005, Pune, India

 

A Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval will be held during the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI2005). The session focuses on all areas of Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. The topics covered by the session include but certainly not limited to:

  • Document Clustering
  • Information Extraction
  • Information Retrieval
  • Question Answering and Sentence Retrieval
  • Semantic Indexing
  • Text Categorization
  • Text Summarization
  • Word Sense Disambiguation


Paper Submission and Publication:
Authors are encouraged to submit the papers for the session. The papers can be submitted as an email attachment to to: NLPIRiicai@dsic.upv.es.

The papers should be in WORD, PDF, or PS format and should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes instructions. The length of a paper should not exceed 20 pages. Shorter papers and papers on the work currently under progress are also welcome. The first page of the paper should contain the title, name(s) of the authors, affiliations, the postal and email addresses, and at least 3 keywords appropriate to the content of the paper. Further information regarding the paper submission can be obtained from the session chair or access the conference website. Each paper is reviewed by two experts in the topical area. All Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title of the session. Further information regarding the paper submission can be obtained from the session chairs or access the conference website.

Program Committee:
Alexandrov, Mikhail (Moscow SGPA, Russia)
Bhattacharyya, Pushpak (IIT Mumbai, India)
Buscaldi, Davide (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)
Geetha, T V (Anna University Chennai, India)
Jiménez, Héctor (B. Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico)
Lyhyaoui, Abdelouahid (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco)
Masulli, Francesco (University of Pisa, Italy)
Molina, Antonio (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)
Montes y Gómez, Manuel (INAOE, Mexico)
Moreno, Lidia (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)
Narayana Murthy, Kavi (University of Hyderabad, India) co-chair
Negi, Atul (University of Hyderabad, India)
Pla, Ferran (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)
Raissouni, Naoufal (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco)
Ribaudo, Marina (University of Genova, Italy)
Rosso, Paolo (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain) co-chair
Rovetta, Stefano (University of Genova, Italy)
Segarra, Encarna (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)
Sanchís, Emilio (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)
Sobha, L (AU-KBC Research Centre Chennai, India)
Varma, Vasudev (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
Vidal, Vicente (Polytechnic University Valencia, Spain)


Important Dates:


June 1st 2005: Draft papers due (extended deadline)
July 15th 2005: Notification of acceptance
July 31st 2005 (tentative): Camera ready copies due

December 20-22 2005: Special Session and IICAI-05 Conference



Session Chairs:

Dr. Rosso Paolo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems and Computation
University Polytechnic Valencia, Spain
Phone: +34963877007 ext. 73571
Fax:    +34963877359
Email:  prosso@dsic.upv.es
Web:   http://www.dsic.upv.es



Dr Kavi Narayana Murthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
University of Hyderabad, India
Phone: +91-40-23010064
Fax:     +91-40-23010145
Email:   knmuh@yahoo.com
Web:   http://202.41.85.117/dcis/htmfiles/faculty/knm/knm.html


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