6th National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium
Programme
Call for Participation
6th National Natural Language Processing Research Symposium
September 25 – 26, 2009
Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall 1103.
De La Salle University – Manila
2401 Taft Avenue, Manila
The 6th National Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Symposium will consist of a whole day forum on the first day and a morning workshop on the second day. This year’s theme is “Knowledge Engineering and Management: Methods and Tools.”
There are two invited speakers for this event: Prof. Gerald Nelson and Mr. Adam Pease. Prof. Nelson is the project director of the International Corpus of English and is now with the Department of English in the Chinese University of Hongkong, while Mr. Pease is the principal consultant and CEO of Articulate Software, a consulting firm based in the San Francisco area. He and his colleagues provide development of custom ontologies based on open standards, including the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). He is a frequent speaker on formal semantics and the author of numerous papers on formal ontology, logical inference and linguistics.
Paper Presentations
Paper presentations in this year’s symposium include topics on:
- Lexicon Building
- Corpus Building
- Corpus Annotation
- Grammar Extraction
- Ontologies
- Language Modeling
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval
- Question Answering
- Natural Language Understanding
- Natural Language Generation
Important Dates
- Early Registration – (until) September 9, 2009
- Regular Registration – September 10 – 25, 2009
- 6th NNLPRS – September 25 – 26, 2009
Registration
Participants of 6th NNLPRS should register by sending their registration forms and proof of payment by fax or email to [email protected] with subject heading 6NNLPRS – registration. Participants can register as student or regular attendee. Your registration will be considered complete upon receipt of confirmation of payment to 6th NNLPRS.
| Registration Type | Early bird (until Sept. 9) | After Sept. 9 |
| Student | P800 | P1,000 |
| Regular | P1,500 | P1,800 |
The regular or student registration fees include entry to the invited talks, paper presentations, and workshops. A conference kit, lunch, and snacks are also included.
For student registration, please send a copy of your student ID card or a certificate from the institution as attachment to [email protected].
For group registration, please use one registration form per individual. However, the group may pay together using only one check. Just indicate in your e-mail communication (1) the names of each registrant, (2) the specific amount paid by each registrant, and (3) the total amount paid by the whole group.
Download the registration form
Payment Options
On-site Payment
A. Before September 25, 2009
- Please proceed to pay in cash/check to the following address:
Cashier’s Office
De La Salle University
2401 Taft Avenue, Manila 1004 - Secure your Official Receipt from the Cashier of DLSU after payment.
- Submit your accomplished Registration Form(s) to the Secretariat. This may be done in person or by e-mail. Show the original copy of the Official Receipt (if submitting in person) or send a copy of the receipt (if submitting by e-mail). Please send the registration form(s) to:
Jennifer Alagdon or Nathalie Rose Lim
Office Address:
De La Salle University
2401 Taft Avenue, Manila 1004
College of Computer Studies
1st Floor, Gokongwei Building
Fax:
(632) 536-0278
E-mail:
[email protected]
Subject Heading:
6NNLPRS – registration
B. On September 25, please visit the Registration Booth at the conference venue:
De La Salle University
2401 Taft Avenue, Manila 1004
(exact conference venue will be announced later)
Payment by Bank Deposit
Before September 25, payments may be made at any UCPB branch.
- Deposit the registration fee at any UCPB branch using the following account information:
Account name: De La Salle University
Account no.: 120-114711-9 - Please send the registration form (and proof as student, if applicable) together with the deposit slip to:
Jennifer Alagdon or Nathalie Rose Lim
Fax: (632) 536-0278
E-Mail : [email protected]
Subject Heading: 6NNLPRS – registration - Registration is considered complete upon receipt of registration form and proof of payment.
- Surrender the original deposit slip to the conference organizer at the Registration Booth on September 25, 2009 to claim your original receipt.
Organizers
This symposium is organized by the Center for Language Technologies (CeLT) of the College of Computer Studies in De La Salle University-Manila, with the support of the Department of Science and Technology, Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCASTRD). The CeLT is created to support and promote research in the field of Natural Language Processing and Language Technologies. Research areas of the CeLT include NL understanding, NL generation, machine translation, information extraction, question answering, among others.
The center sponsors the symposium to cultivate awareness of the current trends in NLP, and explore technological advances in the field to cater to computer applications for languages.
Contact
For inquiries, please contact the secretariat, Ms. Jennifer Alagdon, at (02) 524-0402 or at[email protected].