SNLP is an international conference held biannually since 1993 with the cooperative effort of a number of universities in Thailand. It is aimed to promote research in Natural Language Processing by bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field to exchange ideas and present results from research in Natural Language Processing and various related fields among Pacific Rim countries and regions. The emphasis of the conference is on interdisciplinary scientific exchange demonstrating openness towards high-quality research falling outside current dominant schools of thought, and on technological transfer within the world wide region.


The SNLP2009, the Eight International Symposium on Natural Language Processing, is hosted byDhurakij Pundit University and National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). The conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from October 20-22.


Submissions referring to the above theme are encouraged. However, substantial, original, and unpublished research is welcomed on any other topics in computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following:


* Speech Processing
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Generation and Synthesis
- Rich Transcription (automatic annotation of information structure and sources in speech)
- Multi-Modal Speech Corpora

* Text Processing
- Phonology/Morphology, POS Tagging, Word Segmentation
- Syntax and Parsing
- Semantics and Semantic Analysis
- Discourse and Pragmatics Analysis
- Paraphrasing
- Language Interpretation and Generation

* Image Processing
- Optical Character Recognition
- Handwritten Recognition
- Page Layout Analysis
- Document Analysis

* Language Resources Development
- Lexicons, Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri and Ontologies
- Treebanks, Proposition Banks, and Frame Banks

* Language Processing Technique
- Corpus-based Language Modeling
- Lexical and Knowledge Acquisition
- Formalisms and Metrics

* NLP Application / Other Related Application
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining and Web Mining
- Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
- Summarization
- Machine Translation and Multilingual Processing
- Question Answering
- Topic / Text Classification and Clustering
- Metadata Annotation and XML IR
- Knowledge Management
- Decision Support and Expert System
- Business Intelligence
- Software / Web Engineering

* Others


Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 20, 2009 (Time = 23:59, timezone = GMT -12)
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009
Camera-ready copy due: July 30, 2009
Conference dates: October 20 - 22, 2009