Journal of Computer Science and Technology 

Special Issue on Natural Language Processing

Call-for-Paper

With the rapid development and exploding use of advanced network technology, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become a key technology of the information society. In recent years, research in NLP has mushroomed and many practical NLP applications have been brought to market including information retrieval systems and products for machine translation. However, numerous relevant unsolved theoretical and technological problems await further research.
The special issue on NLP of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) aims at assembling contributions by researchers from various fields of human language technology presenting results from the forefront of research and discussing the advanced state of the technology and its impact on our life.

Topics of interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Computational phonology/morphology, word segmentation, and POS tagging
• Syntax, semantics, grammar, and the lexicon
• Lexical semantics and ontologies
• Document summarization and abstracting
• Natural language generation
• Paraphrasing and textual entailment
• Parsing and chunking
• Spoken language analysis and generation, and speech-to-speech translation
• Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language
• Computational pragmatics
• Human dialogue system and conversational agents
• Computational models of discourse
• Information retrieval
• Question answering
• Word sense disambiguation
• Information extraction and text mining
• Semantic role labeling
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Corpus-based modeling of language
• Machine translation and translation aids
• Multilingual processing
• Corpus development and language resources
• Evaluation methods and user studies  

Guest Editors

Professor Chengqing Zong
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
Email: cqzong@nlpr.ia.ac.cn
Webpage:  http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/cip/english/zong.htm

Professor Hans Uszkoreit
Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Saarland University
Saarbrücken, Germany
Email: uszkoreit@dfki.de
Webpage: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/

Important Dates

Submission due: December 31, 2009
First round of reviews due: March 31, 2010
Revision and second round review: May 31, 2010
Final manuscripts ready for JCST: June 30, 2010

Submission

Manuscripts should describe original research that has not yet been published or is currently under review by other journals or conferences. Papers must be in single-column format, double-spaced, and use fonts no smaller than 11 pt. There is no page limit, but contributors are encouraged to keep the length below 25 pages. Manuscripts must be submitted through the JCST electronic submission system (http://jcst.ict.ac.cn/esubmission/). When submitting please select "Special Issue on Natural Language Processing" in the Areas concerned column.

About the Journal

The Journal of Computer Science and Technology is an international forum for publishing high quality and refereed papers on original research and innovatory applications in all aspects of computer science and technology. The journal is published by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springerlink.com/content/113013/) and covered in many authoritative indexing and abstracting systems.