The 7th International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture (ICLMC 2018)

The 7th International Conference on Language, Medias and Culture (ICLMC 2018) will be held during March 26-28, 2018, in Fukuoka, Japan. It is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Language, Medias and Culture. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Original contributions are solicited on topics covered under broad areas such as (but not limited to):

The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education

Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher

Education

Collaborations in Language Teacher Education

Practices of Language Teacher Education

The transformative nature of the role of language and communication in human cognition

The analysis of language and language use as providing a window into non-linguistic cognitive processes and structures

The relationship between linguistic structure and cognitive processes

Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages

Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages

Asian character encoding and compression

Multimodal representations and processing

Voice input and output

Phonology and morphology

Lexical semantics and word sense

Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse

Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing

Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing

Discourse analysis

Language, linguistic and speech resource development

Evaluation methods and user studies

Machine learning for natural language

Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation

Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval

Text entailment and paraphrasing

Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering

Machine translation and multilingual processing

Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics

Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing

Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation

Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval

Speech recognition and synthesis

Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation

Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning

NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text

NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS

Language Change and Variation

Role of English and Asian languages in globalised contexts 

New Varieties of English

English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

Language, Identity and Culture

Language and Literature

Language and Popular Culture

Literature and Film

Language and Power

Language and Gender

Language and the New Media

Language, Culture and Translation

New Writings in English

Women’s Writings

Teaching of Language and Literature

Teaching and Learning of English as a Foreign/ Second 

Language

Effective Teaching Methodologies in Language and Literature 

Classrooms

Interdisciplinarity in Language Teaching and Learning

Assessment Practices to Language and Literature Teaching

Teaching Translation

Language and ICT

Theoretical research on forensic linguistics

Legal discourse analysis

Legal translation and courtroom interpreting 

The application of forensic linguistics

Research on legal language teaching

Construction of corpus for forensic purposes

Special hardware and software for Asian language computing

Interactive Design for Entertainment

Aesthetics, Ontology and Social Reflection

Art, Design and Novel Media

Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality 

Computer Animation

Computer Games and Game Based Interfaces 

Digital Storytelling and Interactive Television 

Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies 

Entertainment and Healthcare

Image/Video Processing Techniques for Entertainment 

Interactive Computer Graphics 

Mobile Entertainment via e.g. Mobile Phones, PDAs etc 

Modeling Techniques for Games 

Narrative Environments and Intelligent Medias 

New Genres, New Standards

Novel and Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware Devices 

Pervasive Entertainment and Game-Playing 

Robots and Cyber Pets 

Social and Human Factors of Entertainment 

Self Reflecting Entertainment 

Simulation Applications of Games, and Military Training 

Sound, Music, Creative Environments

Conference Committee

 

Conference Chairs

Prof. Yasuo Nakatani, Hosei University, Japan

 

Conference Program Chairs

Assoc. Prof. Tomomi Naka, Tottori University, Japan

Assoc. Prof. Robert Long, Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan

 

Conference Technical Committees

Prof. Chin-Hui Chen, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Dr. Mutsumi Kawakami, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Dr. Xiangdong Liu, Western Sydney University, Australia

Prof. Jamilah Hj Ahmad, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Zaitul Azma Zainon Hamzah ,Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Wang Changsong, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia

Lecturer Raksamon Yordming, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University, Thailand

Asst. Prof. Shaoyu Ye, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Asst. Prof. Gloria Chen, Indiana Tech., USA

Asst. Prof. Angkana Tongpoon Patanasorn, Khon Kaen University,Thailand

Senior Lecturer Loi Chek Kim, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

Prof. Shazi Shah Jabeen,Dubai International Academic City,UAE

Dr. Maya Khemlani David, University of Malaya, Malaysia