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Date: 12 Feb 2013
From:Abdellah CHEKAYRI <A.Chekayri at aui.ma>
Subject:Arabic et. al Language Processing Track at ACS/IEEE

CALL FOR PAPERS

The “Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu language processing” track of the Eleventh
ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
(AICCSA 2013, http://aiccsa.aui.ma/), to be held in Ifrane, Morocco, on
May 20-24, 2013, invites paper submissions on the aforementioned languages
and their variants.
AICCSA is a premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference, an
international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the
advances of computer systems and their applications.
AICCSA 2013 will be held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, on
May 20-24, 2013. Ifrane is located in the Middle Atlas mountains, at
approximately 1600 m of elevation, surrounded by oak and cedar forests. It
is a bit over an hour away by car from the historical cities of Fes and
Meknes and approximately two and a half hours from the city of Rabat, the
capital of Morocco.
Main Track Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
·       Morphology & POS tagging
·       Grammar and grammar formalisms
·       Parsing
·       Semantics
·       Coreference resolution
·       Ontologies and terminology
·       Resources and annotation
·       Machine translation
·       Information retrieval
·       Text summarization
·       Named entity recognition
·       Word sense disambiguation
·       Sentiment and text classification
·       Information & content extraction, text mining
·       Question answering
·       Deployment of NLP-based applications, software integration &
quality
·       Natural Language Generation
·       Speech recognition and synthesis
·       Character and handwriting recognition
·       Applications of NLP technology

Submission Information
All submissions are to be done electronically by the deadline specified
below via the conference main site. Please see the Submission page (under
construction) for specific instructions closer to the deadline.
Papers will be accepted based on their relevance, originality, importance
and clarity. Submissions should be written in English and formatted using
the IEEE template for Microsoft Word and A4 paper, available at:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html
.
Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax
and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties
with electronic submission, please contact the track’s Vice Program
Co-Chairs, listed below. Papers must not be published or under
consideration to be published elsewhere.
Please make sure to respect the blind review process by removing the
authors’ names and affiliations and not referencing previous work in ways
that reveal the authors’ identity. In addition, the name and contact
details of at least one of the authors should be indicated at submission
time. Further instructions for the camera-ready version of accepted papers
will be provided with acceptance notification.
Submitted papers that were deemed to be of good quality, but could not be
accepted as regular papers, will be accepted as short papers.
Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may also be
submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted
abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to
doctoral research proposals and related research.
Important Information about Publication and Registration
Every paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of AICCSA'2013
must
be presented during the conference and every paper accepted for AICCSA
must have attached to it at least one registration at the full
member/nonmember rate. Thus, for a paper for which
all authors are students, one student author will be required to register
at
the full registration rate.
Program Committee
Vice Program Co-Chairs:
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
(v.cavallisforza at aui.ma)
Ahmed Guessoum, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene,
Algeria  (aguessoum at usthb.dz)

Committee Members:
Hassina Aliane, Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information,
Algeria
Fadoua Ataa Allah, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, Morocco
Yassine Benajiba, Thomson Reuters, USA
Jawad Berri, King Saud University, KSA
Siham Boulaknadel, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, Morocco
El Houssine Bouyakhf, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Morocco
Karim Bouzoubaa, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, Morocco
Khaled Choukri, European Language Ressources Association, France
Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ossama Emam, IBM, Egypt
Hammou Fadili, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, France
Mohamed Fakir, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Morocco
Ali Farghaly, Cataphora Software Inc.
Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Abdelfettah Hamdani, Institut d’Etudes de Recherche pour l’Arabisation,
Morocco
Muhammad Humayoun, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Abdelhak Mouradi, École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse
des Systèmes, Morocco
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Ali Rachidi, Université Ibn Zohr, Morocco
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Salim Rami, Faculté Poly-disciplinaire de Safi, Morocco
Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST – LVIC, France
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Otakar Smrz, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale (ENIM), Morocco
Noura Tigziri, Université Mouloud Mammeri, Algeria
Stephen Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Rached Zantout, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon

Important Dates
Paper and Poster Submissions
March  1, 2013
Notification of acceptance
April 12, 2013
Camera ready copy due
April 21, 2013
Author Registration
April  21, 2013

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