The special issue “Unnatural Language Processing” of Journal of Natural Language Processing, for which I’m a leading editorial member, has started its call for paper a few weeks ago.
This special issue, subtitled “Processing of Out-of-the-box Language
Expressions” is the sequel to the past two events of “Unnatural Language Processing” last year. The topics include not only normal academic papers but also papers describing systems and data regarding the theme.
Although we’ve prepared the CFP only in Japanese, which you can see here, this doesn’t mean that we are excluding any submissions in English.
By the way, I’ve observed some arguments on twitter about the title, claiming that the word “unnatural” is not suitable for the theme because the language phenomena which this special issue focuses on are exactly the examples of human “natural” language activity.
Let me explain a little about this — we (and ANLP, too) have absolutely no intention to declare or define them as “unnatural.” You can see that we are consistently using the word “out-of-the-box” in the CFP. We suppose that the title is just an alias to this field of domain, which targets at the processing of language phenomena which have not been gathering much attention so far because they are irregular and/or new. Further academic discussion should follow in the near future.
Anyway, the submission deadline is March 23rd, 2012. We all welcome your submission!
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About the Author
Masato Hagiwara currently works for Rakuten Institute of Technology in New York, as a Senior Scientist. Have worked on search technologies at Google, Microsoft Research, and Baidu in the past. Expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Also a lead translator of the O'Reilly book "Natural Language Processing in Python." A native speaker of Japanese. Good command of English and Chinese (Mandarin). For more information, see About Me.
