Natural Language Processing and Affective Computing
     
within the
10th WSEAS International Conferences on COMPUTERS
Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, July 13-15, 2006
http://www.worldses.org/conferences/2006/greece/iccomp/index.html
 

Topics:

  • Natural Language Learning

  • Lexical Resources and Corpora

  • Natural Language Understanding

  • Machine Translation

  • Multi-lingual, Multi-Function and Multi-Media Systems

  • Information Retrieval

  • Applications in Education

  • Knowledge Acquisition

  • Information-Knowledge-Intelligence Transformations

  • Affective Computing

  • Affect Analysis

  • Recognizing Human Emotion and Creating Machine Emotion

  • Affective Interface

  • Data processing of emotion
     

Organizers:

Professor Fuji Ren, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima
2-1 Minamijosanjima,Tokushima 770-8506, Japan
http://a1-www.is.tokushima-u.ac.jp/member/ren/
Tel: +81-88-656-9684 Fax:+81-88-656-6575, Email: ren@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Program Committee:

Prof. Yixin Zhong, Center for Intelligence Research, The Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, CHINA
Email: yxzhong@ieee.org, zyx@bupt.edu.cn

Prof. Tetsuya Tanioka, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Tokushima, 3-18-15, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8509, Japan
Email: tanioka@medsci.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Prof. Xiangjie Wang, The Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, CHINA, Email: xjwang@bupt.edu.cn

Dr. Haiqing Hu, The University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minamijosanjima,Tokushima 770-8506, Japan, Email: huhq@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Prof. Degen Huang, Dalian Institute of Technology, China
Email: huangdg@dlut.edu.cn


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Brief Biography of the Organizer:

Professor Fuji Ren received his B.E. degree in 1982 and M.E. degree in 1985 from the department of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
From 1991 to1994, he worked at CSK in Tokyo, Japan, where he was the chief NLP researcher. He joined the Faculty of Information Sciences at Hiroshima City University as an Associate Professor in 1994. In 2001, he became a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Tokushima. He has been the president of AIA International Advanced Information Institute since 2003. He also holds professor positions at Dalian University of Technology(1993), Harbin University of Technology (1995) and Xi’an Jiaotong University(1999) . He holds the roles of Advisory Professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (1995) and Research Advisor at Tsinghua University in China (1998). He was a visiting professor at CRL (Computing Research Laboratory) at New Mexico State University(1996), and a visiting research professor in the College of Engineering, at Florida International University (2002) in the USA. He is currently a Professor and the Chairperson of the Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan.
Professor Fuji Ren was invited to be a senior overseas consultant for the BUPT (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) Academic Committee, a consultant for the Beijing Lab. of Multi-Media, a senior consultant for Japan PtoPA Inc. and AGI Inc., an academic committee member of the Chinese national Lab. of pattern recognition, an overseas assessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a senior overseas consultant of China Council for the Promotion of Applied Technology Exchanges with Foreign Countries.
Professor Fuji Ren is a senior member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), SMC (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society) of IEEE, a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Association for Natural Language Processing, Information Processing Society of Japan, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education, Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation, The International Association of Science and Technology for Development, and The International Society for Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science and Engineering in Japan. He was the president of The Association for Chinese Scientists in Japan (1993-1995), Vice President (1996-1998) of CASEJ (Chinese Academy of Science and Engineering in Japan) and President of CASEJ(2001-2004). He is a director of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and Honorary President of CASEJ. He has organized over sixty international conferences and symposia as PC, OC and Chair. He was Conference Chair of NLPKE (IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering) NLP-KE’03, NLP-KE’05, Organizing Committee Chair of Information-2000 (International Conference on Information), Program Committee Chair of Information-2002, Information-2004, Co-Chair of Information-2006, Conference Chair of International Symposium on Science and Technology in the Twenty-First Century (ISST-2004), and Chair of the International Workshop on Machine Translation and Multilingual Information Retrieval (MTMIR 2004). Professor Fuji Ren has published more than two hundred papers and seven Books. He was awarded the Best paper Prize by the China Association for Science and Technology, in 1995 and 1998, by Information-2000 and was awarded the Gennai Prize in 2005. He has been invited as a keynote speaker or invited speaker more than thirty times in the USA, China, Japan, Singapore, and France.
Professor Fuji Ren is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science and Technology, Editor of the International Journal COLIPS, Area Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of INFORMATION, Editor of the International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Asian Information-Science-Life, Technical Editor of the International Journal of Information Acquisition, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control.
Fuji Ren has led more than twenty Science and Technology Projects and currently he is the leader of the project “Machine-Aided Writing System based on Super-Function and Intellectual Corpus (The Education Ministry of Japan under Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research), the international co-research project “Spoken Language Automatic Translation” (The Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scholars Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences), the project “Multi-Lingual Multi-Function Multi-Media Intelligent System”, and the project “Recognizing Human Emotion and Creating Machine Emotion”.