It may be said that modern information technology rests on three technology pillars: semiconductor technology, communications technology, and information processing technology. During the past two decades there have been tremendous advances in all three pillars and their unrelenting convergence that have brought us significantly closer to the realization of the long-envisioned dream of an information society in which anyone can access the cumulative knowledge of the mankind inexpensively from anywhere at any time, namely that of a ubiquitous information age. The 2008 International Symposium on Information Processing Technology will bring together researchers from academia and industry, who are interested in the emergent field of information processing. We are soliciting papers that present recent results, as well as more speculative presentations that discuss research challenges, define new applications, propose methodologies for evaluating and the roadmap for achieving the vision of information processing, including but not limited to the following topics:

Topic A
Machine Translation And Multilingual Processing
Natural Language Applications, Tools and Resources
Machine Learning For Natural Language
Text Mining and Information Extraction
Text Analysis, Text Understanding
Language Modeling
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Phonology and Morphology
Grammars and Syntax, Syntactical Analysis
Word Segmentation, Parsing and Tagging
Lexical Semantics, Word Sense, Word Nets
Summarization and Generation
Formal and Visual Specification Languages

Topoc B
Information Retrieval Systems
Information Reliability And Security
Information and Knowledge Structures
Information Processing Methods
Decision Support And Expert Systems
Workflow Management
Database Engineering and Systems
Information Hiding and Watermarking
Content Management
Data Security and Privacy Issues
Data Warehousing
Trusted Computing