2015Q1 Reports: AFNLP

AFNLP Management

(A) The 5th term of AFNLP commenced from January 2015 until December 2016. Kam-Fai WONG (HK) has succeeded Yuji Matsumoto to become the new President. We are in the stage of election and re-organization of the executive board. (B) Haifeng WANG has replaced Kam-Fai Wong to serve as the AFNLP representative to ACL and we welcome Pushpak Bhattacharyya, who will serve as the new ACL representative to AFNLP. (C) We are updating the Asia Active NLP Researchers Database Committee (ADRC) and will make it available to the appropriate chairs, ACL/AFNLP2015, for inviting PC members, reviewers, etc. (D) We plan to call for voluntary students to help in the on-site logistics of the ACL/AFNLP2015 Conference. (E) Our treasurer will initiate meetings with his/her ACL counterpart to work out the financial arrangement of the Conference.

Events in Asia (partial listing)

PAST International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2014), Sep 12-14, 2014, Singapore 26th Taiwan Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing Conference (ROCLING’2014), Jhongli, Taiwan, Sept 25-26 2014. International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2014), Oct 20-22, 2014, Kuching, Malaysia. 5th SNLP’s Conference on Language and Technology, Nov 13-15 2014, Karachi, Pakistan The 2014 Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop (ALTA 2014) was held at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia on 26-28 November. ALTA 2014 was held in conjunction with the 19th Australasian Document Computing Symposium 2014 (ADCS 2014). 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC’2014), 12-14 December 2014, Phuket, Thailand 10th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS2014), Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA, 3rd – 5th December 2014.

UPCOMING 21st Annual Meeting of Association for Natural Language Association (ANLP2015), Kyoto University, March 16-20, 2015. 2015 Conference for Pacific Associations on Computational Linguistics (PACLING2015), Bali, May 19-21, 2015 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, Nancheng, China, October 9-12 2015 COLING 2016, Dec 7-11 with workshops/Tutorials, Dec 5-6, 2016, Osaka, Japan