We are pleased to announce the 2nd joint Workshop on NLP/AI R&D which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from Nov 18 to 20, 2020. It will be colocated with iSAI-NLP 2020. The workshop will bring together researchers, professors and students in NLP and AI. The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together the community of ASEAN researchers interested in these areas.
Because of the COVID19 pandemic, the situation in the coming months is very uncertain. And thus, we are also making parallel contingency plans for a fully virtual conference if necessary.
We invite submissions on topics that include but are not limited to the following:
NLP R&D:
- POS-tagging
- Tokenization
- Named entity recognition (NER)
- Morphological analysis
- Chunking
- Disambiguation
- Machine Translation (MT)
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Text to Speech (TTS)
AI R&D:
- Statistical Learning
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- AI in image and speech processing
- Bayesian Machine Learning
- Graph Neural Networks
- Meta Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Adversarial Machine Learning
Paper Submission Instructions
Deadline:
Submission Deadline : October 26, 2020
Notification of Acceptance : November 2, 2020
Camera ready : November 9, 2020
Paper length:
6-10 pages including figures, tables references.
Submission Format:
Papers must be prepared under JIIST format as shown in the link below: https://jiist.aiat.or.th/page/authorGuide
Submission System:
The papers must be submitted via the email address: yktnlp@gmail.com
Review Process
For papers that are accepted for review, program committee (PC) members will be matched to submissions based on research expertise and interest. Authors will have a limited opportunity to respond to initial reviews. This author feedback will then be taken into account in the final recommendations and reviews may be changed accordingly.
Journal Opportunities
A select set of rated papers may be nominated for fast track reviewing at the Journal of Intelligent Informatics and Smart Technology (JIIST).
Workshop Date
November 20, 2020
Conference Registration and Attendance
At least one author is required to register for the conference to present the paper, and we encourage all authors to attend if possible.
For the workshop presenters, please select “Full Registration for Participant” (2400 baht). That will cover the whole iSAI-NLP conference.
Program Co chairs
Ye Kyaw Thu (NECTEC, Thailand)
Thepchai Supnithi (NECTEC, Thailand)
Nattapol Kritsuthikul (NECTEC, Thailand)