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Date: 26 Oct 2006
From:Yaser Al-Onaizan <onaizan2000 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Computers and Arabic Conference In Saudi Arabia

FYI,

Sorry for the short notice, but this conference might be of interest  
to some of the people in this list.

Dr. Yaser Al-Onaizan

http://www.iscal.org.sa/


		
		Symposium Background:

		The past few years witnessed remarkable developments in
		the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the  
effects
		of which are felt in every aspect of life. Due to these developments,
		the concept of “information society” is becoming a reality. World
		countries are now competing fast to transform into “information
		societies”, societies that rely on information technology more than
		relying on conventional industries in building their economies. The
		implication of this is the appearance of new concepts and mainstream
		applications covering a wide range of areas. e-Commerce, e-Government,
		e-Learning, e-Business and many related concepts are now quite  
familiar
		in many countries. The Internet and the web evolved into a huge
		distributed environment that may be used to build serious applications
		and services. Mobile devices are evolving into full computers that may
		be used to perform a variety of tasks. Information technology is no
		longer a field for elites and specialized people, but a mainstream  
field
		involving all sectors of the society. This implies that computer and
		network applications should be provided in the native language so that
		ordinary people can access and utilize them. These applications and
		utilities should also be supported by information content, search  
tools
		and support utilities, all in the native language. The pressure on
		Arabic societies to cope with these challenges is now higher than  
ever.
		

		In recognition of these facts, King Abdulaziz City for Science &
		Technology (KACST) and the Saudi Computer Society are organizing the
		first symposium on “Computers and the Arabic Language”.

		The International Symposium on Computers & Arabic Language (ISCAL)  
will
		be held in Riyadh, King Faisal Hall (Intercontinental Hotel) during  
the
		period 25-28 March 2007 (6-9 Rabia’ Awal 1428H).

		Academics, researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit
		original papers related to the area of computers and Arabic language
		before 1st November 2006 (10th Shawal 1427H).
		Submitted contributions could be full papers, short papers,
		research-in-progress, practice-oriented papers, proposals for panel
		discussions. All papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be
		published in the symposium proceedings and some selected journals.

			
			Symposium
			Scope:
			Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
			Computer Arabization,
			Arabic lexicons,
			Automatic Translation,
			Arabic corpora,
			Part of speech tagging,
			Encoding Algorithms,
			Search engines and search tools,
			Data mining,
			Standards and specifications,
			Internet content,
			Web design and web applications,
			E-business, e-commerce and e-government systems,
			Statistical properties of the Arabic language,
			Speech synthesis & recognition,
			Database systems,
			Mobile and wireless devices and applications,
			Natural language processing and computational linguistics.
			E-learning and educational systems,
			Tools and applications,
			Experiences drawn from Arabic-similar languages,
			Impact of computers on Arabic Language,
			Impact of Arabic Language on Computer Industry,
			Social, cultural, economical aspects of the relationship of computer
			and Arabic language,
			Optical character recognition,
			E-document processing.


		Important Dates:	

		Last dates for submissions: 1st
		November 2006 (10th Shawwal 1427H)

		Notification for acceptance: 15th
		December 2006 (24th Dhual-Qa’adah 1427H)

		Camera-Ready manuscripts: 15th
		January 2007 (25th Dhu Al-Hijjah 1427H)

		Paper Submission
		:

		Submissions should satisfy the following:

		- Papers should be submitted electronically in
		WORD format.
		(Please use the Paper
		Template for writing your paper)

		- The e-mail for submissions is:
		
			
		submission at iscal.org.sa

		- Papers should not exceed 6000 word in length, and should be double
		spaced.

		- Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt.

		- The paper should include a short abstract of about 200 words.

		- Author(s) and address information should be given on a separate  
sheet.

		- Final submissions of accepted papers should follow the detailed
		guidelines given in the “Authors-GuideLines.doc”, which will be placed
		on the symposium web site.

		- Papers should be written in Arabic or English only.
		
		Please submit your papers to:
		
		submission at iscal.org.sa

		Symposium web site:
		www.iscal.org.sa/


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