http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/industry.html

ECIR 2008 will be followed by a special day on Thursday 3rd April 2008 devoted to the interests and needs of Information Retrieval practitioners. The Industry Day is devoted to designing and developing practical solutions for information retrieval products and services, and aims to build bridges between IR specialists in industry and academia. This forum presents an opportunity for commercial organisations and individuals to share their work with a wider audience, and for researchers to learn more about the issues and problems faced by IR practitioners in developing practical solutions for the information search and retrieval industry.

While this is the first time an industry day is held as an intrinsic part of the ECIR programme and in the same venue as the main conference, the previous editions of the BCS IRSG industry day held in London .

The 20th ROCLING Conference will be held at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, on September 4-5, 2008. Sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP), ROCLING is the most historied and major conference in the broad field of computational linguistics, speech processing, and related areas in Taiwan. ROCLING XX will be hosted by the Information Technology Center and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University. The two-day conference will feature invited talks, paper, and poster sessions.

ROCLING XX invites submissions of original and unpublished research papers on all areas of computational linguistics, natural language processing, and speech processing, including, but not limited to, the following topic areas.

Topics of Interest

http://forum.dmc.ntnu.edu.tw/~rocling2008/

Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing

1. Bayesian Topic Mixture Model for Information Retrieval
2. Korean-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval Based on Extension of Dictionaries and Transliteration
3. Feature Statistics Compensation for Robust Speech Recognition in Additive Noise Environments
4. Study of the Voice Activity Detection Techniques for Robust Speech Feature Extraction
5. Classification & Disambiguation
6. Word Translation Disambiguation via Dependency
7. Question Analysis and Answer Passage Retrieval for Opinion Question Answering Systems
8. A Study on Prosodic Modeling for Isolated Mandarin Words
9. VOT productions of word-initial stops in Mandarin and English: A cross-linguistic study
10. Predicting Trends of Stock Prices with Text Classification Techniques
11. Speech recognition of mandarin syllables using both linear predict coding cepstra and Mel frequency cepstra
12. Improving Retrieval Effectiveness by Document Reranking and Local Expansion

http://nlg12.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~Rocling/registered.html

• 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2008)
  6 to 8 August 2008
  Phuket, Thailand
• Website: http://snpd2008.cp.eng.chula.ac.th
  Contact name: Pornsiri Muenchaisri