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Date: 19 Jun 2012
From:farghaly1 at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages 4

                                       * Call for Papers         *


      *                                      Fourth  Workshop*

*                                                       On*

*     Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL4)*

*In conjunction with
*

* **The Tenth Biennial** **Conference** **of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas *

*(**AMTA**-**2012**)**  San Diego** CA, USA*

*Thursday, November 1st, 2012*


The Organizing Committee of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Approaches
to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL4)  invites proposals for
presentations at CAASL4.


*Workshop Description*

Three years after CAASL3, this workshop provides an opportunity for
developers and researchers in Academia,  the industry, and government  to
present their work, exchange  ideas, and demonstrate systems that focus on
the challenging task of dealing with all aspects in natural language
processing for languages that use the Arabic script.  It also provides an
opportunity to assess  the progress that has been made since the third
workshop in 2009.

Authors are invited to submit papers on completed original research and
research in progress on any aspect of NLP for the Arabic Script-based
languages.

Papers should  relate directly or indirectly to the following themes:

Statistical and rule-based machine translation
Translation Aids
Evaluation Methods and Techniques of  machine translation systems
Localization and multilingual information retrieval systems
Shallow and deep parsing
Data driven approaches
Entity extraction
Tokenization and segmentation
Name matching
Speech synthesis and recognition
Text to speech systems
Semantic analysis
Knowledge Bases
Information retrieval
Semantic web and inferences
Topic Detection and text summarization


*Workshop Dates and submission deadlines *

The workshop will be held on Thursday  November 1st, 2012    from 9 – 5.

Papers submission deadline:  August 1st, 2012

Author notification: August 15, 2012

Camera Ready submissions due:  September 1st, 2012

Website for submission       https://www.softconf.com/amta2012/CAASL4/

Formatting Guidelines

Papers must be submitted in WORD or pdf.     Papers should not exceed 8
pages including references and tables. and should follow the formatting
guidelines that can be accessed at  http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/CFP.

Papers should present original, previously unpublished or under
consideration work.

  Papers will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the program
committee.

*Organizing Committee*

Ali Farghaly and Farhard Oroumchian

*Contact information*  alifarghaly at yahoo.com

*Tentative Program Committee *

Tim Buckwalter                                 University of Maryland, USA

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza                       AlAkhawayn University,
Moroccoa

Sherri Condon                                  MITRE, USA

Aly Fahmy                                        Cairo University

Mona Diab                                        Columbia University, USA

Joseph Dichy                                    Lyon University, France

Andrew Freeman                               University of Washington, USA

Nizar Habash                                    Columbia University, USA

Lamia Hadrich *Belguith*                 University of  Sfax, Tunisia

Sarmad Hussain                           CRULP, Pakistan

Mohamed Maamouri                     Linguistics Data Consortium, USA

Farhad Oroumchian                      University of Wollongong in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates

Jean Sennellart                             SYSTRAN, France

Khaled Shaalan                             The British University in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Rafea                                The American University in
Cairo, Egypt

Imed Zitouni                                   IBM, USA

Azadeh Shakery                             University of Tehran, Iran

Karim Bouzoubaa                                Mohamed Vth Agdal University,
Morocco

Abdelhadi Saudi                                           École Nationale
de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco

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