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Date: 29 Jun 2006
From:Otakar Smrz <otakar.smrz at mff.cuni.cz>
Subject:TAPA 2006 2nd Call

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

TAPA 2006: Treebanking and Advanced Processing of Arabic

Organized on:   	November 30, 2006
Submissions due:	July 30, 2006

Charles University in Prague
Czech Republic

http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/padt/TAPA2006/


MOTIVATION -----------------------------------------------------------

In November/December 2006, the Institute of Formal and Applied  
Linguistics, Charles University in Prague, is organizing a two-week  
series of workshops and invited lectures, which include the Fifth  
Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2006), the Vilem  
Mathesius Courses (VMC 2006) and the Prague Dependency Treebank  
tutorial, as well as the Partnerships for International Research and  
Education (PIRE) group meeting.

The announced TAPA 2006 workshop is also one of the events in the  
series. Its purpose is to bring together people from different areas  
of the Natural Language Processing community, who are either  
interested in the problem of multi-level linguistic description of  
Arabic, or concerned with the resources, tools and methods used  
recently in the study of this language.

The organizers would like to see this workshop on Treebanking and  
Advanced Processing of Arabic both as an opportunity for the invited  
research teams to promote their relevant scientific projects, and as  
an open opportunity for other teams of the community to report on  
their original approaches or derived applications. The workshop  
should become a forum for explanation and discussion.

Combining one's participation in TAPA 2006 with the other events is  
highly recommended, of course.


WORKSHOP FORMAT ------------------------------------------------------

There will be two sessions on the day of the Workshop. Each of them  
will have a part reserved for invited talks on the leading projects  
in Arabic Computational Linguistics, and another part devoted to the  
regular contributions, discussions and demos in the scope of the  
research interests of the community.

The Workshop will be held on Thursday, November 30, 2006, from 09:00  
to 18:00 in the facilities of Charles University in Prague. The time  
planned for one regular paper presentation will be 20 minutes,  
invited talks will be offered 1 hour plus some time for questions.

The other co-occurring events are fixed on November 28-29 (Prague  
Dependency Treebank tutorial), December 1-2 (TLT 2006), December 4-8  
(VMC 2006), December 4 (PIRE). Visit http://www.tlt2006.org/ for more  
information.


SUBMISSIONS ----------------------------------------------------------

We invite papers describing original approaches to the various  
aspects of Arabic language treebanking, and/or addressing research  
issues that the treebanking projects might help pursue and improve.  
In particular, we invite papers on:

     * issues in constituency and dependency syntax
     * theories of representation of meaning
     * interplay of morphology, syntax, and the levels beyond
     * valency lexicons, extraction of grammars
     * implementations of tagging and parsing techniques
     * using treebanks in machine translation
     * language modeling with its various applications
     * computational tools and treebank management
     * development of lexicons and other linguistic databases
     * application of treebanks in language education

Full versions of papers, written in English, will be accepted for  
review as PDF or PostScript files. The papers are required to conform  
to the style guidelines of the proceedings of the Workshop, specified  
on the website: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/padt/TAPA2006/. Submissions  
are to be e-mailed to <otakar.smrz at mff.cuni.cz> by July 30, 2006.


TIMELINE -------------------------------------------------------------

Paper submission deadline        	July 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance       	September 10, 2006
Final versions of papers due     	October 15, 2006
TAPA 2006 Workshop                      November 30, 2006


RESOURCES ------------------------------------------------------------

     * Linguistic Data Consortium Catalog
	http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/

     * Penn Arabic Treebank Project
	http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/arabic/

     * Columbia's Arabic Dialect Modeling Group
	http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/cadim/

     * Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank ++
	http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/padt/online/


PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------------------

     * Ann Bies (University of Pennsylvania)
     * Tim Buckwalter (University of Pennsylvania)
     * Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Carnegie Mellon University)
     * Mona Diab (Columbia University)
     * Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
     * Jan Hajic (Charles University)
     * Mohamed Maamouri (University of Pennsylvania)
     * Owen Rambow (Columbia University)
     * Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam)
     * Otakar Smrz (Charles University)
     * Petr Zemanek (Charles University)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------

     * Otakar Smrz (Charles University)
     * Jan Hajic (Charles University)


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