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
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SESSION CHAIR:
David Bracewell
Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems
The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Email: davidb_@_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