More than 500 academics from 32 countries will attend the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics at the Academia Sinica in Taipei Aug. 26 to Aug. 30, a spokesman for the research institution said yesterday.
Three international scholars have been invited to give keynote speeches at the conference. Hans Uszkoreit from Saarland University in Germany will speak on "new chances for deep linguistic processing," William S.Y. Wang, a member of the Academia Sinica, will speak on "evolutionary linguistics and computer modeling" and Charles Fillmore from UC Berkeley will give a report on "linking sense to syntax in FrameNet."
During the five-day conference, the participants will present 190 papers. On Aug. 31 and Sept.1, 11 workshops will be held, and the participants will present 130 papers on grammar engineering and evaluation, machine translation in Asia, Chinese language processing, natural language learning, Asian language resources and international standardization and semantic networks.
There will be a panel discussion on the last day of the conference. Four prominent international scholars will exchange views on applications of semantics on the Web in language learning.
It will be the first time that the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will hold its annual conference in Taiwan.
ACL is an international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.
According to a Academia Sinica spokesman, the annual conferences are held in the summer in locations where significant computational research is carried out.
The spokesman said that the Academia Sinica Academia Sinica has four research groups concentrating on the studies of Chinese knowledge information processing and spoken languages, and several local universities have set up laboratories for the research of natural language systems, speech and audio processing, speech signal processing as well as Chinese information processing.
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