Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on South Asian languages and other less resourced languages, issues, and applications relevant to South Asia. However, other languages of the world are not excluded. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Discourse POS Tagging Parsing Word Sense Disambiguation Machine Translation/Statistical Machine Translation Pragmatics Computational or Quantitative Psycholinguistics Statistical Methods Knowledge-based Methods Annotation and Annotated Corpora Lexical Resources Ontology Sentiment Analysis Machine Learning in NLP NLP-based Recommendation Systems Performance Evaluation of NLP Systems Information Retrieval Information Extraction Automatic Text Summarization Question Answering Dialog Systems Speech Corpora Speech Recognition Speech Synthesis NLP for Language Documentation and Preservation NLP for Educational Purposes NLP for Digital Humanities

The authors may submit papers under any of the areas mentioned above, but must mark the area of their paper at the time of submission.