Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Treebanking and Advanced Processing Conference Call for Papers

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1) Subject:Arabic Treebanking and Advanced Processing Conference Call  
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Date: 17 Mar 2006
From:Otakar Smrz <otakar.smrz at mff.cuni.cz>
Subject:Arabic Treebanking and Advanced Processing Conference Call  
for Papers

FIRST 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 early 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 Partnerships for International
Research and Education (PIRE) group meeting.

The announced TAPA 2006 workshop should open this series of events.
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 informed discussion.

Combining one's participation in TAPA 2006 with the other events is
expected and 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 December 1-2 (TLT 2006) and
December 4-9 (VMC 2006, PIRE). There will be independent announcements
of theirs, with proper details.


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/


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

Call for papers and participation	March 15, 2006
Paper submission deadline        	July 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance       	September 10, 2006
Final versions of papers due     	October 15, 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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