Talk:2014Q3 Reports: AFNLP Representative

An AFNLP combined Executive and Board Meeting was held in October 17 2013 during the 6th IJCNLP conference in Nagoya, Japan.

(1) Asian conferences:

Asia Information Retrieval Socities Symposium (AIRS): AIRS2013 was held in Singapore, December 9-11, 2013. See http://www.colips.org/conference/airs2013/ And AIRS2014 will be help in Sarawak, Malaysia, Deecember 3-5 2014. See http://airs2014.pecamp.org/

International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL) ICCPOL conference is dormant. Last one was held in US with very low turnout rate. The journal associated with ICCPOL is switched to a book series (published by World Scientific)

The Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC): 28th PACLIC will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, 12-14 December 2014. See http://ling.arts.chula.ac.th/paclic28/index.html

It was also reported that an Indian National IR Conference would be held in December 2013.

(2) It was suggested that few small conferences can be collocated with ACL/IJCNLP2015, Beijing. KF is repsonsible.

(3) It was proposed that AFNLP should provide a name list of Asian researchers to ACL for them to consider as ACL-AFNLP'2015 chairs in different committees. Yuji-san is responsible.