IJACSA Special Issue on Natural Language Processing 2014

Background

Texts are one of the most important records of human expertise, therefore being of paramount importance for mining both general and specific knowledge. Over the past few years the role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for mining information from textual sources has gained relevance due to the now massive availability of textual information on-line and the need to access, distill, and organize the contents held in this wealth of unstructured information.

Scope of this Special Issue

This special issue of IJACSA aims to bring together articles that report advances in Natural Language Processing, both experimental as well practical applications, related to the exploitation and distillation of textual material for information access and knowledge creation. We are therefore calling for contributions in the areas of Automatic Text Summarization, Adaptable Information Extraction and Knowledge Population, Knowledge Induction from Text, Text Simplification, Text Entailment and Learning by Reading, and Natural Language Processing for the Social Media.

Paper submission

Manuscripts should be submitted via email to editorijacsa@thesai.org. Subject line should be: "NLP_SpecialIssue: Paper Title". Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a double blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Guidelines page. IJACSA is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization.

There is a fixed publication fee of USD $175+Taxes for all accepted manuscripts. Only registered manuscripts will be part of the published special issue.

Authors may submit their manuscripts as per the following schedule:

• Submission Deadline: February 01, 2014
• Review Notification: February 15, 2014
• Registration Deadline: March 01, 2014
• Camera Ready Submission: March 15, 2014
• Final publication: April 01, 2013

Guest Editor

Dr T.V Prasad: A Professor with over 17 years of experience in Academics and Govt. in various capacities. Masters in Computer Science from Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India and PhD in CS from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Worked as Dy. Director at Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi and then as Dean of R&D at Lingayas University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. Currently designated as Dean of Computing Sciences at Visvodaya Technical Academy, Kavali, AP, India. Brief profile also includes, editorial board member of various leading journals, programme committee member of various international and national conferences, authored 73 papers, 6 books and 2 chapters, 2 patents filed, developed curriculum for various under graduate and masters programmes, handled many funded and govt. projects successfully to name a few. Deep interest is in fueling burning interest in learning within students.

Special Issue Reviewers

• Dr. Monica Mehrotra is Assoc. Professor in the Dept. of Comp. Sc. at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She has authored two books and has organized a number of programmes. She has a good number of publications in national and international journals and is also guiding a number of PhD scholars.
• Prof. Om Vikas was Formerly Director, ABV-IIITM (Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management), Gwalior (Deemed University). He began his career as System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and became Senior Director in the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT (Govt of India) where he served as head of Human Centered Computing Division (Digital Library and Language Technology Missions), and Computer Manpower Development Division. As Counsellor (Science & Technology) in Indian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan he had many firsts to his credit towards promoting India-Japan cooperation between India and Japan. He nurtured the Technology development for Indian Languages (TDIL) program over two decades and contributed. many firsts in promotion of Indian Language Technology. He represented India in UNESCO on Experts Committee on Multilingualism in Cyberspace. He was founder editor of the Language Technology Quarterly: VishwaBharat@tdil, (2001-2005). Prof. Om Vikas is Fellow / Member of various Professional Societies, namely, IEEE (USA); Russian Academy of Informatization of Education, Institute of Electronics & Telecom Engineers, Indian Society for Technical Education, Institution of Engineers, IEEE Engineering Management Society, and Computer Society of India. He is Secretary of Centre of Excellence of Interdisciplinary Mathematics (CEIM) of the International Forum of Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM).
• Mr. T. Kameswara Rao is Assoc. Professor & Head of the Dept. of Comp. Sc. & Engg. at Brahma's College of Engineering, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has been working in the area of NLP for quite some time now, especially in handling of Sanskrit.
• Dr. H. S. Sai is General Manager (IS/ERP) at Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. He has worked as Chief Information Office at Thomson Press as well as in the capacity of Senior Professor of IT at some leading Management Institutes.