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1) Subject:Arabic Resources and Tools Conference

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Date: 23 Jan 2009
From:from LDC newsletter
Subject:Arabic Resources and Tools Conference


2nd International Conference on Arabic Resources and Tools Conference

The LDC would like to pass along the following announcement regarding  
the upcoming MEDAR Conference:

The second international conference on Arabic Language Resources and  
Tools will be held in Cairo, Egypt on April 22-23, 2009.  The  
conference is organized by the Mediterranean Arabic Language and  
Speech Technology consortium (MEDAR), a new NEMLAR initiative, and is  
supported by the European Commission.

Conference aims:

Language Resources (LRs) are a central component of the linguistic  
infrastructure, necessary for the development of HLT applications and  
products, and therefore for industrial development. In this conference  
we will focus on Arabic language technology and on the necessary  
language resources and tools for both research and commercial  
development of language technology for Arabic. Multilingual language  
technology is a particular focus, as well as general methodologies.  
The other important aspect for the promotion of Arabic language  
technology is cooperation. Cooperation is extremely important for the  
advancement of the field, be it cooperation between European, Arabic  
and American partners, cooperation between Arabic partners,  
cooperation between research and industry etc. MEDAR will present its  
first proposal for a Cooperation Road Map, and will seek discussion  
and collaboration for its final version.

The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for the discussion of  
the state-of-the-art for Arabic resources and tools, in particular for  
machine translation and multilingual information retrieval, discuss  
problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding LRs and  
tools, their applications, ongoing and planned activities, industrial  
uses and needs, requirements coming from the new e-society, both with  
respect to policy issues and to technological and organizational ones.  
The road map discussions will in particular bring in policy issues and  
collaboration and organization issues.

Important Dates:

Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos: January  
30, 2009

Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2009

Final versions for the proceedings: April 6, 2009

For Further Information:

Bente Maegaard (Coordinator)
Tel: + 45 35 32 90 90
Fax: + 45 35 32 90 89
Email: nemlar[AT]hum.ku.dk
Web: www.medar.info



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