Call for Papers

The 9th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2008)

July 14-19, 2008, Singapore

The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society of Singapore (COLIPS) is pleased to announce that the 9th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2008) will be held from 14 to 19, July 2008 in Singapore and Bali, Indonesia. The main conference and paper presentations will be held in Singapore (14-16, July 2008) and post-conference workshop and discussion (16-19, July 2008) will be held in Bali.

The previous conferences have been held in different Asia Pacific cities: Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Xiamen, and Hsin Chu. CLSW has become one of the most important meetings in Asia for scholars of Chinese Lexical Semantics and related fields, such as Theoretical Linguistics, Information Processing and Computational Lexicography.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The aim of the 9th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2008) is to bring together researchers interested in any aspect of Chinese lexical semantics. Topics of interest for the workshop include theoretical, computational or application related issues of lexical semantic research. Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research in any aspects of lexical semantics in Chinese, including, but not limited to, the following:

1. recent advancement in lexical semantics;
2. Corpus annotation: methodologies and tools for sense tagging, collocational restrictions;
3. Construction of lexical resources, including dictionaries, thesaurus, ontology, etc.;
4. Representation, computation and inference of Chinese lexical meanings;
5. Application issues of Chinese lexical semantics in NLP，Language engineering, lexicography, and other language disciplines.

 Papers on any topics in Chinese Lexical Semantics and related fields are cordially welcome.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

The official languages of the conference and workshop are English and Chinese (Mandarin).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with statements of topic, approach/methodology, analysis and conclusion. Abstracts are limited to two A4 pages in 12-point font with 1'' margins. Data and examples must be given within the body of the text rather than at the end, though references may be included on a separate page, if necessary. Acceptable file formats are Portable Document Format (.pdf), MS Word (.doc), and plain text.

Please send your submission by Email to the Program Chair at chswh@nus.edu.sg.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings with ISBN numbers obtained from the Singapore government. Selected quality papers will be published in the Commercial Press (Beijing)

IMPORTANT DATES

CHAIR & COMMITTEES

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Chin-Chuan Cheng	National Taiwan Normal University
Lua Kim Teng	The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society of Singapore (COLIPS)
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Yu Shiwen (Chair)	Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University
Huang Chu-Ren	Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Benjamin Tsou	City University of Hong Kong
Su Xinchun	Department of Chinese, Xiamen University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wang Hui (Chair)	National University of Singapore
Liu Meichun	National Chiao Tung University
Chifa Lian	National Tsing Hua University
Chin-Chin Tseng	National Taiwan Normal University
Lu Qin	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Cheung Kwan Hin	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wang Hongjun	Peking University
Yuan Yulin	Peking University
Wang Hongfeng	Peking University
Sun Maosong	Tsinghua University
Chen Qunxiu	Tsinghua University
Zhou Qiang	Tsinghua University
Zhang Pu	Beijing Language and Culture University
Liu Qun	Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ji Donghong	Wu Han University
Zhou Hongbo	The Commercial Press (Beijing)
Li Haizhou	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Zhang Min	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Gao Hong	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
HONG Huaqing	Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) , Singapore
Yu Hao	Fujitsu Research Center, China
Fu Guohong	Heilongjiang University, China
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lua Kim Teng (Chair)	COLIPS, Singapore
Kang Shiyong (Deputy Chair)	Ludong University, Yantai
Dong Minghui (Secretary)	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Lua Tse Min (Treasurer)	COLIPS, Singapore
Zhang Min	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Ma Bin	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Eugene Koh Chin Wei	Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Gao Hong	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hong Huaqing	Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) , Singapore

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr Wang Hui
Department of Chinese Studies,
National University of Singapore,
The Shaw Foundation Building,
5 Arts Link, Level 3, Singapore 117570

Tel：65-6516 6048
Fax：65-6779 4167
Email：chswh@nus.edu.sg

For more information, please visit the conference website: www.chineselex.org