Khmer NLP Conference 2016

The upcoming event, Khmer Natural Language Processing Conference (Khmer NLP Conference 2016) calls for paper which is related tot he natural language processing, especially to solve problem of our Khmer language.

As presented in the poster banner, there are a lot of topics that students, professional or private sector should be participating to help together solving our language issue, promoting research and encouraging more people to join solving the problem.

This year beside research papers, you can also present your research or products as poster to exhibit during the conference. Please check official website for detail: http://khmernlp.org

National Conference about Khmer Natural Language Processing

The Khmer Language Processing Consortium is happy to announce the Second Annual Conference on Khmer Natural language Processing (KNLP 2015), where all its members and others working in this field bring together their work in an effort to collaboratively advance together towards building practical Natural Language Processing for Khmer. The first annual conference took place in October 2014.

The Khmer Natural Language Processing Consortium, created in 2014, groups universities, NGOs, private companies and researchers interested on accelerating – through close coordination and collaboration – the creation of effective natural language processing tools for Khmer language. These tools will be used to improve access to information and communication in this language.

Check on the website now: http://khmernlp.org/

Call for Papers

The Conference will address a range of critically important issues and themes relating to the Khmer Natural Language Processing community. Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas.

The Khmer Language Processing Consortium is inviting proposals for paper presentations that address Khmer Natural Language Processing in one of the following areas:

• Text and Speech processing
• Optical Character recognition for Khmer and similar complex scripts

• Automatic Translation to and from Khmer.

• Interpreting and generating spoken and written language

• Natural language interfaces and dialogue systems

• Pattern recognition, applied NLP systems

• Cognitive aspects of natural language processing

• Computation aspects of natural language processing

• NLP-based knowledge science and service science

• Corpus and Language Resources

• Corpus-based language modeling

• Tools and resources for natural language processing

• Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, NLP Applications

• Semantics, syntax and lexicon

• Evaluation of natural language systems

• Information retrieval and extraction, text mining

• Human processing of language and speech

• Languages for Disability

• Ontology Engineering

• Phonetics, phonology and morphology

• Pragmatics and discourse

Important Dates

Date	Description
21 September 2015	Paper Submission Deadline
21 October 2015	Acceptance/Rejection Notification
4 November 2015	Final Submission Deadline
4 December 2015	Annual Conference

Welcome to the Khmer OCR Conference, 28th October

The event is now announced to public, the Khmer OCR conference which is hosting at conference hall of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication.

The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software has been around in the world to convert the printed text on the image, pdf or scanned paper into the computed text or characters.

Khmer OCR topic has been in the researching phrase long time ago with some researchers already but most of the case, each researcher is trying to solve different issue in the OCR technologies such in as in segmentation (line or character separation), recognition or classification etc.

Now the conference is about to focus on producing the software that work for public uses, the invite all related researchers to discuss about different solution and TODO list for the next steps.

The event is for invited person only, please contact the host: research@niptict.edu.kh if you would like to participate.

The event only happens after some discussion and meeting with the team so far.

Stay Tune, The OCR Conference is Delay Again

As receiving the update today, the venue informed us that the conference which was first delayed to 1st of October, it has been postponed again to end of October due to the invitation and want to have all potential researchers on board.

The invitation is promised to come by next week, wait and see.

The 1st Khmer OCR Conference Changes to 1st October

Followup the information I have posted in my post recently, now the OCR team has delayed the conference to 1st of October instead due to short time on administrative matter at the venue.

During the conference there will be some presentations from the people in the article "The State of the Art of Khmer OCR" for their methods and then there will be about the future with "TesseractOCR" to plan.

Hope the team could make something different for our society and of course, everyone input will help.

I'll keep update if any change before the conference.

Here is the picture of recent meeting (2nd Meetup)

1st Meetup