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Date: 20 Jan 2007
From:"Ali Farghaly" <farghaly1 at gmail.com>
Subject:Computational Approaches to Arabic-script based Languages

* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS*

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CAASL-2*

*
Second Workshop on*

*Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages*



July 21-22, 2007


The Linguistic Summer Institute

Stanford University


Workshop description

* *

The first workshop on "Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based
Languages", held in conjunction with COLING 2004, brought together
researchers working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based
languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto, Urdu and
Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common  
to all
these languages despite their being of distinct language families,  
such as
right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization,
complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to
non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The proposed second workshop, three years after the successful first
workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia,  
industry, and
government developers, practitioners, and users to share their  
research and
experience. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants  
with an
opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of
computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all
practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to  
identify
promising areas for future collaborative research in the development  
of NLP
resources and systems for Arabic script languages. This second  
workshop also
provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made  
since the
first workshop in 2004.

The invited speaker for this workshop will be Richard Sproat from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be
found at http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2


Workshop Topics

Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages  
are
invited to apply. We also accept proposals for demonstrations of
computational systems. Preference would be given to papers that  
extend their
results and analyses to other Arabic script-based languages. Papers and
demos could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics:

   - Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources
   - Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
   - Morphological analysis
   - Syntactic ambiguity resolution
   - Shallow and deep parsing
   - Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages
   - Sense disambiguation
   - Homograph resolution
   - Semantic analysis
   - Semantic web and inferences
   - Named entity recognition
   - Information retrieval
   - Text mining
   - Summarization
   - Text-to-speech systems




*Submission Requirements*

Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not
identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather
than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other
conferences must reflect this fact on the title page.

Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and
references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be
sent to both Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com and karinem at mitre.org
<karinem at inxight.com> by midnight of the due date. Submissions should
be in English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating
contact information for the author(s) and paper's title. Formatting
requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted
as soon as they become available.

Important dates

Submissions due:
February 26, 2007

Notification of  
acceptance:                                            April
16, 2007

Camera ready submissions:                                             
June
15, 2007

Organizing committee

* *

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com

Karine Megerdoomian, MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org


Program Committee

Jan W. Amtrup                                     Kofax Images
Tim Buckwalter                                     Linguistic Data
Consortium
Miriam Butt                                           Konstanz  
University,
Germany
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza                         Carnegie Mellon  
University
Joseph Dichy                                        Lyon University
Nizar Habash                                        Columbia University
Mona Diab                                            Columbia University
Kevin Knight                                        USC/Information  
Sciences
Institute
Farhad Oroumchian                             University of  
Wollongong in
Dubai
Ahmed Rafea                                        The American  
Universityin
Cairo
Bonnie Glover Stalls                            University of Southern
California
Rémi Zajac                                             Yahoo!, Inc.
Kareem Darweesh                                Cairo University
*Sherri L. Condon*                                The MITRE Corporation
*Mohammad** Haji-Abdolhosseini*  Iowa State University
*Farhad Oroumchian*                       University of Wollongong in  
Dubai
Imed Zitouni                                      IBM
Hany Hassan                                     IBM Cairo

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