Dr. Lee-Feng Chien

Theyinclude ( a ) Dr. Lee-Feng Chien , Academic Sinica , Taiwan , founding organizing committee member of the Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages ; ( b ) Professor Chengning Huang , Microsoft Research Laborartory , Beijing , China , formerly at Tsinghua University , Beijing China ; ( c ) Professor Kim-Teng Lua , National University of Singapore , Editor-in-chief of communications of Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing ; ( d ) Professor Sung-Hyon Myaeng , hunnam National University , Korea , founding organizing committee chair of the Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages and guest editor of the information processing management , an international journal , Pergamon Press , UK ; ( e ) Jun-ichi Tsujii , University of Tokyo , Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Natural Language Processing published by The Association of Natural Language Processing in Japan ; and ( f ) Professor Kam-Fai Wong , The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Guest-editor of the Journal of Computer Processin.of Oriental Language , published by Chinese Language Computer Society , USA and member of the ACM Membership Activities Board responsible for the International Program - China.It is well agreed that ACM journals and magazines are widely recognized as the leading publications , which provide up-to-date information on leading edge technology and theory in computing.The scope of the existing journals and magazines is generally broad and covers a wide range of computing related topics , e.g. from computer systems ( TOCS ) to computational logic ( TOCL ).But there is little attention on researches in natural language processing , in particular on Asian languages.Despite the growing interests on this field as a result of the advancement in the Internet , there are only a small number of local journals and conferences.For this reason , a common archival journal is badly needed.It is unanimously agreed that ACM is in the best position to take the leadership.