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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACTFL Arabic SIG Community Page Discussion Board
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Tamara Haddad <TamaraHaddad at hebisd.edu>
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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:12:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-l:LING:Gulf Arabic localism response
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1) Subject: Gulf Arabic localism response
2) Subject: Gulf Arabic localism response

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Mohammad Taha <arabic.tester.taha at gmail.com>
Subject: Gulf Arabic localism response

I would pursue hypotheses two and three. The Hola [الهولة] community in
Bahrain has their own distinct dialect which heavily borrows from languages
spoken in the Iranian plateau. Their dialect is known as Khodmooni
[خودموني].


Kind Regards,

Mohammad Taha

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Iran Conference in representation of prophet in art
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: rizwanur rahman <rahman_r at yahoo.com>
Subject: Iran Conference in representation of prophet in art

Sistan Baluchistan University Zahedan Iran is organising "International
Congress on Prophet
  Muhammad's Representation in Art", to be held May 6-7 2015, at
Zahedan-Iran.
For details click the following link:
http://seminars.usb.ac.ir/icmra

Rizwanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Centre of Arabic and African Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi - 110067 INDIA

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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  8 16:09:43 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:Naka'id of Jarir and Farazdak response
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Giuliano Lancioni <giuliano.lancioni at uniroma3.it>
Subject: Naka'id of Jarir and Farazdak response

A good quality pdf of the original edition can be found on archive.org:


https://archive.org/details/nakaidofjariralf00jarr


https://archive.org/details/nakaidofjariralf01jarr?

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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  8 16:09:22 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:WANTSJOB
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2) Subject: Michael Schub

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: dilworth parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: note from moderator

I receive frequent requests to post notes from people looking for jobs
teaching Arabic, and I have declined to do so in the past.  This summer I
have decided to create a new category for such posts (WANTSJOB), and try
posting them on a trial basis.  This will allow people to delete them (or
filter them out) if they are not interested in looking at them, but will
also create an online resource for schools and people who suddenly find
themselves in need of an Arabic teacher at the last minute.
I welcome any reactions to this change.
dil parkinson

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Michael Schub <m7schub at gmail.com>
Subject: Micael Schub

Michael B. Schub (Ph. D. 1977, Berkeley) is available to teach courses in
Arabic (and/or Hebrew) on all levels beginning in the FALL, 2014 term.  If
interested,
please call (860)-523-9757.
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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  8 16:09:29 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online Arabic Interactive Storybook "Dunia fi
 Lubnan"
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Michelle Tager <michelletager at hotmail.com>
Subject: Online Arabic Interactive Storybook "Dunia fi Lubnan"

“ Enjoy the First Free Arabic Interactive Story Book Online (ISB)”

“Dunia Fi Lubnan” is an unique online Arabic interactive storybook
developed by Alef,b… multicultural center for children with support from
Qatar Foundation International through a Curriculum Development grant.

The overall purpose of this Interactive Story Book is to encourage the
enthusiastic development of the Arabic language, and a love for lifelong
learning of this language and its culture.

“Dunia Fi Lubnan” is an integrated educational material in that it uses
both Modern Standard Arabic,  الفصحى  and colloquial العامية .

It is appropriate for Arabic heritage students as well as for learners
whose native language is English. In the latter case, it is recommended to
use the ISB with the assistance of a native person in order to best enjoy
the content. The target age group is 7 years old and up.

This material is composed of a fully illustrated interactive story,
comprehension quiz questions prompted by Nahla the bee in English, playful
drills to test reading, writing and comprehension, and cultural games from
which the learner can accumulate points to earn a surprise gift from Alefb.

This highly interactive, multimedia component works very well as an
enhancement to regular curricula for teaching Arabic as a foreign language
to children, teens and even adults, individually or in a classroom setting.

Twenty two fully illustrated pages tell the story of Dunia; a story not too
different from the story of many language learners, in the sense that she
has acquired some knowledge about the Arabic language, yet she feels shy
and uncomfortable with speaking.  She worries that others may mock her or
make fun of her accent when she goes to visit her grandparents in Lebanon.
Like many children, Dunia loves the game of soccer; she also respects
nature and its creatures. During her summer in Lebanon, she manages to
slowly break out of her shell, overcome the fear of speaking Arabic, and
make friends.

Tens of interactive self-correcting drills, audio files, cultural authentic
documents tackling topics such as Ibn Sina Robot, Teta’s recipes, or “going
to a soccer game”, as well as a rich Companion Guide, wait to be discovered
and enjoyed by children and adults alike. The animations, sounds,
glossaries pages and English translation tools all provide helpful hints
and aid the learner in staying engaged.

When all of the modules are completed, learners will have acquired new
vocabulary, reinforced their reading, writing and comprehension skills, and
been exposed to different practices, products and perspectives of the
Arabic culture. Learners will be able to write a simple postcard using
vocabulary from the following topics: Greetings, Feelings, Activities,
Countries and Places, Colors, Food, Things and Family/Friends.

Download "Dunia Fi Lubnan“ for free here.
http://alefb.org/storybook/storybook.html

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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  8 16:09:24 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language
 Processing Last Call
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From:  Nizar Habash <habash at ccls.columbia.edu>
Subject: EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Last Call

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Last Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

      Apologies for multiple postings
      Please distribute to colleagues

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Second Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014

Workshop Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html
Shared Task Website:
http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).  Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences. This
workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a
forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to
the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions
are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.
Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text
error correction (see link to Shared Task Website above).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop: October 25, 2014

ORGANIZERS
Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University

Program Committee Members

Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco
Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya
Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt
Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexis Nasr,  University of Marseille, France
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA
Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
Farhad  Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon
Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA
Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France
Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco
Karine  Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Khalil Sima’an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria
Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France
Ossama Emam, IBM, USA
Otakar Smrž, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France
Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt
Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran
Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA
Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation of al-Muntadham by Ibn al-Jawzi
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: raram <raram at umich.edu>
Subject: Translation of al-Muntadham by Ibn al-Jawzi


The Center for Muslims Contribution to Civilization located at Hamad Bin
Thani University in Doha, Qatar is looking for a translator to continue
translating 242 pages from al-Muntadham fi Tarikh  al-Mulouk  wal-Umam by
Ibn al-Jawzi. Please contact Professor Raji Rammuny: Telephone (734)
945-8489, Email  raram at umich.edu  for further information.

Thank you,

Raji Rammuny
Coordinator of Great Books of Islamic Civilization Translation Project
University of Michigan

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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jul 14 22:15:30 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online interactive storybook response
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From: Manuel Feria <mferia at gmail.com>
Subject: Online interactive storybook response

Thank you so much. I love it!
Best,
M.

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:WANTSJOB:Mohammed Shihab
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Date: 14 Jul 2014
From: mohammed shihab <ms5ef at virginia.edu>
Subject: Mohammed Shihab

My name is Mohammed Shihab (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language
and Culture, University of Virginia). I would like to add me to your list
please. I am a native speaker with broad knowledge in Arabic language and
literature. I will be available after the end of summer, 2014 on August,
20th, and ready to start teaching in the Fall, 2014. Many Thanks.

Best,

Mohammed Shihab
(434)-227-2955

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs bibliography on Arabic administrative language
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Date: 14 Jul 2014
From: Letizia Osti <letizia.osti at unimi.it>
Subject: Needs bibliography on Arabic administrative language

Dear colleagues

For a multilingual project involving Arabic, I am looking for basic
bibliography on the following subjects:

- administrative language.
- simplification of administrative language.
- linguistic and cultural mediation within administrative institutions
(e.g. multilingual communication with the public, etc.).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

Letizia Osti

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK:Arabic: A Linguistic Introduction
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Date: 14 Jul 2014
From: Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject: Arabic: A Linguistic Introduction

       I'd like to announce the publication of my latest book, Arabic: A
Linguistic Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press. It is
intended to provide an introduction to linguistic analysis for those who
know Arabic, or who are learning Arabic.  Here is the link (I hope it
works):

http://www.amazon.com/Arabic-Linguistic-Introduction-Karin-Ryding/dp/1107606942/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404913315&sr=1-1&keywords=Arabic%3A+A+Linguistic+Introduction

Thanks so much.  Karin

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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jul 18 21:24:28 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New Article:Samir Naqqah and Alu Al-Ala'
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1) Subject: New Article:Samir Naqqah and Alu Al-Ala'

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Article:Samir Naqqah and Alu Al-Ala'

Journal Title:  Journal of Semitic Studies
Volume Number:  59
Issue Number:  2
Issue Date:  2014

Samīr Naqqāsh in His Writings Challenges Existentialist Philosophers with
the Ideas of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrīʾ
Benyamin Rish

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section
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1) Subject: Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject: Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section

It might be helpful if those in search of positions would indicate whether
they want full or part time positions, and what geographical areas they
would like to work in.

Best,
Alex

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: moderator
Subject: Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section

I agree with Alex.  Having your name and the fact that you want a job only
is not very helpful.  Besides the info Alex mentions, be sure to mention
your schooling (where, degrees obtained), and any relevant experience.
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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part
 3-Web
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1) Subject: GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3-Web

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: reposted from LDC <ldc at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3-Web

(2) GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3 -- Web
<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T14> was developed by LDC and
contains 217,158 tokens of word aligned Arabic and English parallel text
enriched with linguistic tags. This material was used as training data in
the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program.

Some approaches to statistical machine translation include the
incorporation of linguistic knowledge in word aligned text as a means to
improve automatic word alignment and machine translation quality. This is
accomplished with two annotation schemes: alignment and tagging. Alignment
identifies minimum translation units and translation relations by using
minimum-match and attachment annotation approaches. A set of word tags and
alignment link tags are designed in the tagging scheme to describe these
translation units and relations. Tagging adds contextual, syntactic and
language-specific features to the alignment annotation.

Other releases available in this series are:

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 1 -- Newswire
and Web (LDC2012T16 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2012T16>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 2 -- Newswire
(LDC2012T20 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2012T20>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 3 -- Web (
LDC2012T24 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2012T24>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 4 -- Web (
LDC2013T05 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013T05>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging -- Broadcast Training Part
1 (LDC2013T23 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013T23>)

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 1 -- Newswire and Web (
LDC2014T05 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T05>)

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 2 -- Newswire (LDC2014T10
<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T10>)

This release consists of Arabic source web data collected by LDC. The
distribution by genre, words, character tokens and segments appears below:

Language

Genre

Files

Words

CharTokens

Segments

Arabic

WB

2,449

154,144

217,158

7,332

Note that word count is based on the untokenized Arabic source, and token
count is based on the tokenized Arabic source.

The Arabic word alignment tasks consisted of the following components:

Normalizing tokenized tokens as needed

Identifying different types of links

Identifying sentence segments not suitable for annotation

Tagging unmatched words attached to other words or phrases

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3 -- Web is distributed
via web download.

2014 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this
data on disc.  2014 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16
free membership corpora.  Non-members may license this data for US$1750.


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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation: Information Structure and
 Intonation in Hijazi Arabic
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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: Muhammad Alzaidi <mohd.zaidi2007 at gmail.com>
Subject: New Dissertation: Information Structure and Intonation in Hijazi
Arabic

Institution: University of Essex
Program: MPhil/PhD in Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2014

Author: Muhammad Swaileh ALZAIDI

Dissertation Title: Information Structure and Intonation in Hijazi Arabic

Dissertation URL:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/papers/theses/Alzaidi14InforStruc.pdf
<http://bit.ly/horeshphd>

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Phonetics
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Hijazi Arabic


Dissertation Director(s):
Louisa Sadler

Dissertation Abstract:

There is irrefutable evidence that many languages use intonation to express
the aspects of the information structure of an utterance. Recently evidence
has emerged that languages differ in how information structure (IS) is
marked intonationally. This thesis presents experimental work on the
prosodic encoding of Information Focus and Contrastive Focus (aspects of
IS, that is, concepts relating to the distribution of ‘new’ and ‘contrast’
information) in Hijazi Arabic (an under-researched language). It provides
both a phonetic and a phonological analysis of the experimental data, the
latter couched in Autosegmental-Metrical Approach. It aims to (i) provide
an analysis of the word order in Hijazi Arabic (HA) and how it is used to
express IS, and (ii) provide an in-depth and systematic analysis of the
ways that intonation is used both phonologically and phonetically to encode
neutral focus, information focus, in-situ contrastive focus and ex-situ
contrastive focus in four focus structures: sentence-focus,
predicate-focus, argument-focus and focus preposing structure.

Based on insights from recent research, we propose two categories of Focus:
information focus and contrastive focus. We show how these categories are
reflected in HA word order and in intonation.

The results show that intonation and not word order is crucial and useful
in identifying the focus of the HA utterance. They show that focus has
local and global effects on the utterance. Focus attracts the nuclear pitch
accent, and compresses the pitch accent(s) of the following word(s).
Excursion size and the maximum F0 are found to be the two main acoustic
correlates of prosodic focus in HA. Focused words have significantly
expanded excursion size, post-focus words have significantly lowered F0,
but pre-focus words lack systematic changes.

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New Publications from the Library of Arabic
 Literature
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1) Subject: New Publications from the Library of Arabic Literature

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: John Joseph Henry Rossetti <chip.rossetti at nyu.edu>
Subject: New Publications from the Library of Arabic Literature

Dear colleagues,

Below please find information about the Library of Arabic Literature series
and our most recent published volumes, now available for sale in both print
and e-book formats. We are offering a 20% discount on our books for Arabic-L
subscribers: when purchasing through our website below, please enter the
following discount code: LAL14 [valid through December 31, 2014]

*The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad*
by Maʿmar ibn Rāshid
Edited and Translated by Sean W. Anthony
Foreword by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

424 pages
$35.00 Cloth
Link: http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/?book=11317

*Leg Over Leg: Volume Three*
*Leg Over Leg: Volume Four*
by Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq
Edited and Translated by Humphrey Davies

*Volume Three*:
408 pages
$40.00 Cloth
Link: http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/?book=12067

*Volume Four*:
584 pages
$40.00 Cloth
Link: http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/?book=12070

The Library of Arabic Literature (www.libraryofarabicliterature.org) is a
new series offering Arabic editions and English translations of key works
of classical and pre-modern Arabic literature, as well as anthologies and
thematic readers. Books in the series are edited and translated by
distinguished scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies, and are published in
parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages. The Library
of Arabic Literature includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of
the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including
poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and
historiography.

Supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and
established in partnership with NYU Press, the Library of Arabic Literature
produces authoritative Arabic editions and modern, lucid English
translations, with the goal of introducing the Arabic literary heritage to
scholars and students, as well as to a general audience of readers.

Thank you,

Chip Rossetti
Managing Editor
Library of Arabic Literature
New York University Press
838 Broadway, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-998-2433

Website:  www.libraryofarabicliterature.org

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy Semester and Year Abroad in Cairo
 2014/2015
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1) Subject: Arab Academy Semester and Year Abroad in Cairo 2014/2015

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: Arab Academy <info.arabacademy at gmail.com>
Subject: Arab Academy Semester and Year Abroad in Cairo 2014/2015

Arab Academy in Cairo is delighted to announce that our intensive Arabic
Semester and Year Abroad Programs in Cairo 2014/2015 are now available for
enrollment. We welcome all applicants – from those who don’t know Arabic to
those at the most advanced levels, we are here to help you achieve
proficiency in Arabic.

In addition, we are more than happy to accommodate both individual students
and groups studying in Cairo as part of a university program.

*We offer you:*
    * Intensive Semester and Yearly Programs
    * Orientation session, handbook to life in Cairo, and proficiency test.
    * All levels of Arabic language taught, including instruction in MSA
and colloquial Arabic.
    * Small classes conducted entirely in Arabic at all levels.
    * Detailed weekly feedback.
    * Access to our award-winning online resources.
    * Cultural excursions and hands-on experiences integrated in the
curriculum.
    * Certificate of studies.
    * Dedicated, experienced and professional staff.
    * Help with accommodation.
    * Central location in Garden City in downtown Cairo.
    * An amazing adventure with Arabic language!

Program Details:
    * Fall Semester: September 7 - December 18, 2014.
    * Spring Semester: January 18 - May 22, 2015.
    * Enroll for one or both.
    * 20 contact hours per week (4 hours of Arabic classes per day X 5 days
a week).
    * Competitive Fees:
   - Semester Program: $2,340 (For 16 weeks of intensive study)
   - Yearly Program: $4,420 (For 32 weeks of intensive study)

Arab Academy in Cairo offers intensive Arabic programs to students aiming
at attaining higher levels in Arabic in the shortest possible time while
engaging with Arab culture. Our varied study abroad programs, offered
year-round, include an integrated program of cultural outings accompanied
by our Arabic teachers giving students a chance to practice Arabic both
inside and outside the classroom.  Arab Academy is open year round. Amongst
our prestigious clients are the American Embassy, University of Manchester,
and Duke University.

To apply or to find out more please visit our website:
http://www.arabacademy.com/en/arabic-egypt

Questions may be directed to: info at arabacademy.com

We look forward to receiving you this academic year!

--
Arab Academy (since 1997)
3 Alif Kamil ElShinnawi Street
Garden City 11451, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: info at arabacademy.com
Web Sites: http://www.arabacademy.com

Fan Page:
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Arab Academy Blog:
http://www.arabacademy.com/arabic-blog

Telephone Inquiries:
- Hanan Dawah, Student Support
Cell: +20 111 670 4021

- Eman Muhammad, Student Support
Cell: +20 111 020 2732

- Azza Herazi, Communications Coordinator
Cell: +20 100 111 1476

**** Our staff members respond to your questions Sundays through
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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:4th Call for Proposals: 4th International
 Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu,
 Feb 26-Mar 1 2015
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1) Subject: 4th Call for Proposals: 4th International Conference on
Language Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu, Feb 26-Mar 1 2015

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1)
Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject: 4th Call for Proposals: 4th International Conference on Language
Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu, Feb 26-Mar 1 2015

  4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION (ICLDC)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
General papers, posters, and electronic posters

*** Please read carefully as some information has changed since our last
conference. ***


INTRODUCTION

The *4th International Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation (ICLDC)*, “Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,” will be
held *February 26-March 1, 2015*, at the *Ala Moana Hotel* in *Honolulu,
Hawai‘i*. The conference is hosted by the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
and is supported in part by the US National Science Foundation.

The program for this 3 ½ day conference will feature two keynote talks, an
integrated series of Master Classes on the documentation of linguistic
structures, and a series of Sponsored Special Sessions on pedagogy in
language conservation. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of
Hawai‘i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will
immediately follow the conference.

The theme of the 4th ICLDC, “Enriching Theory, Practice, and Application,”
highlights the need to strengthen the links between language documentation
(practice), deep understanding of grammatical structure (theory), and
methods for teaching endangered languages (application). At this
conference, we intend to focus on language documentation as the
investigation of grammar and linguistic structure on the one hand, and the
development of that investigation into sound pedagogy for endangered
languages on the other. We hope you will join us.

For more information and links to past conferences, visit our conference
website:  http://icldc-hawaii.org/


*1) CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERAL CONFERENCE PAPERS, POSTERS, AND ELECTRONIC
POSTERS *
*Proposal deadline: August 31, 2014*

*Topics*
We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme,
“Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application.” Discipline-wide reflection on
the relationship between the documentation of linguistic structure and
language pedagogy is crucial if the proper documentation and conservation
of endangered languages is to be effective. Our aim here is two-fold: to
create citizen scientists who can reflect on their language for the purpose
of teaching and documenting without being hindered by metalanguage, and to
enrich the contributions of linguists to linguistic theory and description
via documentation.

We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and
revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting
language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of
applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those
domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that
treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also
as domains requiring discussion, clarification, and theorization in their
own right.

In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other
subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but
are not limited to:

   - Archiving matters
   - All aspects of pedagogy in language conservation
   - Community experiences of revitalization
   - Data management
   - Ethical issues
   - Language planning
   - Lexicography and grammar design
   - Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
   - Orthography design
   - Teaching/learning small languages
   - Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls
   - Topics in areal language documentation
   - Training in documentation methods – beyond the university
   - Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies


*Presentation formats*
*Papers* will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of
question time.

*Posters* will be on display throughout the day of presentation. Poster
presentations will run during the early afternoon. Poster presentations are
recommended for authors who wish to present smaller, more specific topics,
or descriptions of particular projects.

*Electronic posters (e-posters) *are opportunities for presentations of
software, websites, and other computer-based projects, in an environment
that allows face-to-face interaction with the audience. Similar to a
traditional poster session, e-poster presenters will use their own laptop
computers to display their projects while the audience walks around,
watching demonstrations and asking questions. E-poster sessions will take
place in the early afternoon in a room with tables and internet access.


*2) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION*

*Rules for submission in all categories:*

   - Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in
   any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the
   region discussed.
   - Authors may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored
   proposal, or no more than two co-authored proposals. *In no case may an
   author submit more than one individually-authored proposal.*
   - Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters are *due
   by August 31, 2014*, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2014.
   - We will not be accepting any proposals for panel presentations or
   colloquia beyond the Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language
Conservation (deadline
   passed).
   - Because of limited space, please note that the Abstract Review
   Committee may ask that some general abstracts submitted as papers be
   presented as posters or electronic posters instead.
   - Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to
   the journal *Language Documentation & Conservation*
   <http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/> for publication.


*How to prepare your proposal:*

   -
   - *For proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters:* We
   ask for abstracts of *no more than 400 words* for online publication so
   that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your
   paper, and a* 50-word summary* for inclusion in the conference program.
   All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international
   experts on the topic.
   - *To facilitate blind peer review, please DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR
   AFFILIATION in your abstract or filename. **Your proposal should only
   include your presentation title, abstract, and list of references (if
   applicable). *
   - *If you are including references/citations to your own work in your
   abstract, please be sure to replace your name(s) with "Author".* For
   example, if you are Ted Smith and you wrote an article in 2009, which you
   are citing in your file (i.e., Smith (2009) ), you would change it to
   "Author (2009)."  If you are including a list of references at the end,
   also make sure to anonymize any of your publications similarly as well.
   - Please note that your reference list is *not* counted in your 400-word
   abstract maximum, only the main abstract text.
   - *Please save your abstract as an MS WORD DOCUMENT or PDF FILE*. MS
   Word is preferred. However, if you are using special fonts, special
   characters, or diagrams in your abstract, a PDF file is recommended to
make
   sure it displays as you intend.
   - *For a FILE NAME, use an abbreviated version of your title.* For
   example, if your presentation title is "Revitalizing Hawaiian for the
next
   generation: Social media tools," your filename might be
   "Revitalizing_Hawaiian.doc" or "Revitalizing_Hawaiian_social_media.pdf"
   - *Please follow the guidelines above when preparing your abstract.
   Submitted proposals that ignore them may be returned. *
   -


*To submit a general conference proposal (papers, posters, and electronic
posters - deadline August 31, 2014), visit the Call for Proposals section
of the ICLDC 4 website. <http://icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org>*

*Proposal review criteria:*

   - *Appropriateness of the topic: *Does the paper/poster address the
   themes of the conference?
   - *Presentation:* Is the abstract well-written? Does it suggest that the
   paper/poster will be well organized and clearly presented?
   - *Importance of the topic:* Is this an important topic within the area?
   Is the paper/poster likely to make an original contribution to knowledge
in
   the field? Will it stimulate discussion?
   - *Contribution to the discipline: *For talks, does the presentation
   make a methodological or theoretical contribution to the discipline? If
not
   (e.g., project descriptions), could the presentation be submitted as a
   poster or electronic poster?



*3) TIMELINE*

   - April 1, 2014: Call for Proposals announced
   - May 31, 2014: Proposals for Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language
   Conservation deadline PASSED
   - June 30, 2014: Notification of acceptance to Special Sessions
   - August 31, 2014: Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic
   posters deadline
   - October 1, 2014: Notification of acceptance for general papers,
   posters, and electronic posters
   - October 1, 2014: Early registration opens
   - January 15, 2015: Early registration deadline
   - February 26-March 1, 2015: 4th ICLDC


*4) SCHOLARSHIPS*

To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference,
scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by
(i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who
are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not
employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be
considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on
the proposal submission form. This is applicable to regular conference
papers only (not the Special Sessions). The scholarships are funded by
support from the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered
Languages Program.

NOTE: Please be advised that these scholarships are considered taxable
income under U.S. tax laws. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can
expect to receive a 1099 form to figure into their annual tax return for
2015. Non-U.S. citizens/residents may have the applicable taxable amount
(typically 30%) deducted from the scholarship check prior to receipt.


Questions?  Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu

Andrea L. Berez, Victoria Anderson, and Jim Yoshioka
4th ICLDC Executive Committee



************************************************************

*International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation
(ICLDC)*Phone:
+1-808-956-9424
Email: icldc at hawaii.edu

Website: http://www.icldc-hawaii.org
ICLDC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ICLDC/
ICLDC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/ICLDC_HI/

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:WANTSJOB:Mohammed Shihab
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1) Subject: WANTSJOB:Mohammed Shihab

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: mohammed shihab <ms5ef at virginia.edu>
Subject: WANTSJOB:Mohammed Shihab

Here is my new update with suggested information:
My name is Mohammed Shihab (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language
and
Culture, University of Virginia). I am a native speaker with broad
knowledge in Arabic language and literature. I am teaching right now at the
University of Virginia and I will be available after the end of summer,
2014 on August, 20th, and ready to start teaching in the Fall, 2014
.Preferred geographic areas is anywhere in the U.S.and/ or in the Middle-
East region. I am looking for both full time and part time positions. Below
are my contact phone number and emails. I have teaching experience for four
semesters in the U.S. and two years in the Middle- East. Many thanks again.

Best,

Mohammed Shihab
(434)-227-2955
ms5ef at virginia.edu
younisfa2002 at yahoo.com

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: "nhedayet at yahoo.com" <nhedayet at yahoo.com>
Subject: meatballs' in Arabic

بصراحة الترجمة المباشرة بدون أخذ الاستعما ل الواقعي للغة يصبح غريبا ﻟﻠﻌﺮﺏ أ
حيانا. لا اعتقد ﺃنه هناك ﺃي عربي يقول قرص كفتة ﺃو" نبغي ﺃو ﻋﺎﻳﺰﻳﻦ أقراص
كفتة". نسميها كفتة و فقط، في مصر لو ﺃردنا واحدة فقط، و هذا نادر ﺃعتقد ،
فنقول "صباع"  كفتة. الا لو كانت في صلصة علي الطريقة التركية فنسميها داوود
باشا و ﻫﺬﺍ يعني كفتة.
تحياتي للجميع.
د. نجوى هدايت
معهد هدايت للدراسات العربية-المعادي، القاهرة.
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Arabic Poetry
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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From:  Gerlach Islamic Studies <office at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Arabic Poetry

Up to 25% discount on antiquarian books

CLASSIC & MODERN ARABIC POETRY

*** Fiscal year restrictions can be considered and books can be invoiced in
the new fiscal year ***


Please have a look at the title list which can be downloaded from this site:
http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php

Some of them bear light traces of wear (signature, ex libris). The overall
condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good.

Our offer:
- purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first served)
- 10% discount for any single book
- 25% discount when ordering 5 or more books
- plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery)
- plus 7% VAT (within the EU - if no VAT ID can be supplied only)
- our institutional and regular customers can order on open account
- first-time customers: credit card or pre-payment by bank transfer
preferred
- offer is valid until 5 August 2014 only


Looking forward to your orders.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: editorjwl at cityu.edu.hk <editorjwl at cityu.edu.hk>
Subject: Translation Across Time in J or World Languages CFP

Call for Papers

East and West Encounters: Translation across Time

Special Issue for the Journal of World Languages

Guest-edtiors
Alexandra Assis Rosa (University of Lisbon; University of Lisbon Centre for
English Studies)
Huang Guowen (Sun Yat-Sen University)

This special issue welcomes contributions addressing topics related (though
not circumscribed) to translation history, historiography and
metahistoriography.  Centred on translation broadly understood as an
intentional phenomenon of human and mostly intercultural communication,
this issue aims to focus on the role played by translation in Eastern and
Western cultural practices and encounters through time as well as on the
role of history to understand both translation and translation studies.  By
aiming to bring together Eastern and Western views on a selection of
translation history matters, including both inter- and intralingual, oral
(interpreting) and written translation, as well as phenomena such as
pseudotranslation, retranslation or indirect translation, a.o., this
special issue aims to contribute to the understanding of why, how and for
which purposes translation history matters.

We invite proposals focusing especially on the following topics:

·        Translation and History: On-going Projects to Map Translation

·        Translation in History: Main Periods and Trends

·        Translators in History

·        Translation Studies in History

·        Translation Theory in History

·        Method in Translation History

·        Historiography: Main Issues in Translation History

·        Translating Otherness: Eastern configurations of Western Identities

·        Translating Otherness: Western configurations of Eastern Identities

·        East and West Encounters in Translation: Main Issues and
Protagonists

Original articles of approximately 8000 words in length (including notes
and references) must be written in English. Before submission, the text
must be checked (e.g. by a native speaker, if you are not a native speaker
yourself) so as to comply with English academic writing guidelines.

Abstracts of 400-500 words should be sent by email to the guest editors at
a.assis.rosa at campus.ul.pt andflshgw at mail.sysu.edu.cn.



Timeline

Date

Issue

15 Jan 2015

Deadline for abstract submission to guest editors

1 Mar 2015

Notification on editors' decision

1 Sep 2015

Deadline for paper submission

30 Jun 2016

Submission of final versions of papers

Nov 2016

Estimated publication date



For further information and style guideline, visit
http://www.hallidaycentre.cityu.edu.hk/jwl.
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:31 -0600
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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: "Preslav I. Nakov" <pnakov at qf.org.qa>
Subject: Deadline of LT4CloseLang 2014 approaching

The paper/abstract submission deadline of LT4CloseLang 2014 is approaching.

Detailed information is available at
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=38721


LT4CloseLang: Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and
Language Variants
Motivation

Recent initiatives in language technology have led to the development of at
least minimal language processing toolkits for all EU-official languages as
well as for languages with a large number of speakers worldwide such as
Chinese and Arabic. This is a big step towards the automatic processing
and/or extraction of information, especially from official documents and
newspapers, where the standard, literary language is used.

Apart from those official languages, a large number of dialects or
closely-related language variants are in daily use, not only as spoken
colloquial languages but also in some written media, e.g., in SMS, chats,
and social networks. Building language resources and tools for them from
scratch is expensive, but the efforts can often be reduced by making use of
pre-existing resources and tools for related, resource-richer languages.

Examples of closely-related language variants include the different
variants of Spanish in Latin America, the Arabic dialects in North Africa
and the Middle East, German in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, French in
France and in Belgium, Dutch in the Netherlands and Flemish in Belgium,
etc. Examples of pairs of related languages include Swedish-Norwegian,
Bulgarian-Macedonian, Serbian-Bosnian, Spanish-Catalan, Russian-Ukrainian,
Irish-Gaelic Scottish, Malay-Indonesian, Turkish-Azerbaijani,
Mandarin-Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, and many other.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in building
language technology applications that make use of language closeness to
exploit existing resources in a related language or a language variant. A
previous version of this workshop, organised at RANLP 2013<
http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPLangVar2013>, attracted a
lot of research interest, showing the need for further activities.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
·         Case studies of using language resources and tools for related
languages and language variants
·         Adaptation of monolingual tools and resources for closely-related
languages and language variants
·         Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to
closely-related languages and language variants
·         Linguistic issues when adapting language resources and tools,
e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends, etc.
·         Machine translation between closely-related languages
Important Dates
·         Submission deadline: July 26, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PST
·         Acceptance/rejection notification: August 26, 2014
·         Camera-ready deadline: September 12, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PST
·         Workshop: October 29, 2014
Submissions

Submission should be done using START:

https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/LT4CloseLang14

Papers should be up to 9 pages long and should follow the formatting
instructions for EMNLP'2014<http://emnlp2014.org/call.html>.

Committee
·            Laura Alonso y Alemany (Univeristy of Cordoba, Argentina)
·            César Antonio Aguilar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile)
·            José Castaño (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
·            David Chiang (University of Southern California, USA)
·            Marta Costa-Jussà (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
·            Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
·            Kareem Darwish (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
·            Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
·            Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)
·            Francisco Guzman (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
·            Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK)
·            Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA)
·            Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg,Germany)
·            Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
·            Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
·            Thang Luong Minh (Stanford university, USA)
·            John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
·            Graham Neubig (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
·            Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University, Qatar)
·            Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
·            Slav Petrov (Google, New York, USA)
·            Stefan Riezler (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
·            Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
·            Hassan Sajjad (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
·            Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
·            Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
·            Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
·            Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweden)
·            Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
·            Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
·            Pidong Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
·            Taro Watanabe (NICT, Japan)
Contact
·         Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
·         Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
·         Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg

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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:16 -0600
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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject: 2nd Call for Papers Al-Arabiyya 48, Due August 15

Al-ʽArabiyya: Call for submissions for Volume 48, 2015

Al-ʽArabiyya, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of
Arabic, is a leading journal in the field of Arabic language and
linguistics. Al-ʽArabiyya welcomes scholarly and pedagogical articles, and
book reviews that contribute to the advancement of study, criticism,
research, and teaching in the fields of Arabic language, linguistics, and
literature. We also consider responses and comments on articles published
in previous issues.

To be considered for the next issue, submissions are due August 15, by
8:00PM EST. We consider submissions year round and we may accept a
submission for the following issue if received after August 15. We do not
accept simultaneous submissions.

Please address all correspondence regarding submissions to:

Karin C. Ryding, editor
Al-Arabiyya Journal
c/o Georgetown University Press
3240 Prospect St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
email: aataeditor at aataweb.org

General guidelines
Authors are encouraged to present an original, scholarly contribution, a
perceptive restructuring of existing knowledge, or a discussion of an idea
with information and references on how to learn more about the topic.
References should be appropriately and sufficiently extensive, and
demonstrative of comprehensive awareness of international scholarship.
Conclusions drawn should be accurate, appropriately documented, and soundly
argued, without being overextended.
The material should be well-organized and the writing style fluent and
professional. We respectfully require that authors writing in a language
other than their native language have their contribution carefully checked
by a native speaker before submission. Previously published pieces or those
being considered for publication elsewhere should not be submitted.
Authors alone are responsible for the opinions they express and for the
accuracy of facts presented in their articles.

The journal welcomes translations and bibliographies, provided they meet
Al-ʽArabiyya guidelines. Translations should be scholarly and accompanied
by an introduction or critical essay, annotations, and commentaries.
Bibliographies should also be annotated, critical, and accompanied by an
appropriate introduction. Translations and bibliographies are subject to
the same review process as articles.

Book reviews are 500–1,000 words in length, and are commissioned by the
book review editor. If you would like to propose a review, please contact
the book review editor, Gregory Bell, directly:
aatabookrevieweditor at aataweb.org.   Reviews of current and recently
published textbooks are particularly welcome. The journal also considers
review articles, which are approximately 1,500
words in length, double spaced. Review articles treat a major work or works
in the field as judged by the editor and the book review editor. Please
propose a review article to the book review editor or the editor prior to
submission.

Submission procedures
The overall length of articles should be appropriate to the material
treated and should not exceed 7,000 words (no more than 25 pp. in Times New
Roman, 12 pt., double spaced).

Articles with examples in transliterated/transcribed Arabic must use Doulos
SIL (available free: http://tinyurl.com/AATA-Translit-Font) for those
transcriptions/transliterations. It is acceptable to include appropriate
tables, figures, and illustrations but, upon acceptance, it is the author’s
responsibility to provide high-resolution, digital versions of each, as
well as permission (if necessary) for their use. The journal follows the
Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, and submissions should, too. Cited
forms (letters, morphemes, words, phrases, or sentences) should appear in
italics, e.g., the prefix bi-, the word dars. Italics are not used for
forms marked as being in phonemic or phonetic transcription, e.g., /sabt/,
[sapt]. The meaning of cited forms should appear in single quotation marks,
with no comma before it, e.g. walad ‘boy.’ Additional formatting
requirements may be requested, if preparing for publication.

Articles in Arabic will be considered and must be submitted using SIL’s
Scheherazade font
(available free: http://tinyurl.com/AATA-Arabic-Font).

Submissions are only accepted by email attachment. Please attach both a PDF
version and an original MS Word document. Number all pages consecutively in
the upper right-hand corner. Include an abstract in English of
approximately 100 to 150 words at the beginning of the article.

To aid the blind review process: Remove author’s name and identifying
remarks from the article. Include a cover sheet with: author’s name,
mailing address, email address, telephone number, academic affiliation, and
title of the article. For submissions with multiple authors, include all
authors’ information on the cover sheet.

Articles will not be returned to contributors.

--
Karin Christina Ryding
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic Emerita
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University

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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop Last
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Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz at gmail.com>
Subject: Deadline Extension and Paper Length Change for Arabic Natural
Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014

 Dear all, due to several requests, we decided the following:

(1) We extend the submission deadline to July 28 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11
hours).
 This includes both the main workshop papers and the shared task
descriptions.

(2) We extend the page length of the main workshop papers to be up to 9
pages + any number of reference pages.
The shared task descriptions are still up to 4 pages with 2 additional
pages of references.

Regards,
Workshop Organizers

=======================================================

Last Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

      Apologies for multiple postings
      Please distribute to colleagues

=======================================================

Last Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014

Workshop Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html
Shared Task Website:
http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html

=======================================================

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).  Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences. This
workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a
forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.
 Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to
the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions
are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.
Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text
error correction (see link to Shared Task Website above).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014 => July 28 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11
hours)
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop: October 25, 2014

ORGANIZERS
Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University

Program Committee Members

Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco
Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya
Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt
Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexis Nasr,  University of Marseille, France
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA
Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon
Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA
Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France
Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Khalil Sima’an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria
Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France
Ossama Emam, IBM, USA
Otakar Smrž, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France
Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt
Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran
Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA
Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco



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Wajdi Zaghouani
Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City
PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar
Office: CMU-Q 1210, Phone: (+974) 4454-8646
Email: wajdiz at qatar.cmu.edu
Web: www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/

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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From: Nour Abdeen <nour_abdeen2010 at yahoo.com>
Subject: meatballs

تحياتي للجميع أولا
في اعتقادي أننا لا نقول عن اللحم ( كرة أو كرات من اللحم) بل نقول قطعة لحم
أو بالعامية المصرية( عاورز حتة لحمة حلوة) أما بخصوص الكفتة
فهي مستخدمة على إطلاقها بأن نقول: أريد نصف كيلو كفتة أو كيلو كفتة , حتى
إننا لا نقول نص كيلو من الكفتة  إلا إذا كان هناك أنواع محتلفة فنقول:عاوزر
نص كيلو من الكفتة دي
وطبعا ( صباع كفتة ) أو صوابع كفتة هي الشائعة في الاستخدام العامي في مصر
تحياتي أخيرا لقارئي رسالتي
د نور عابدين


Nour Abdeen
Ph.D. in Literary and Critical Studies,at Arabic Department.
Lecturer at Arabic Center for foreigners.
Faculty of Arts,

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs contact info for Emad Shahin
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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From:  Ahmed Hassan Khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Needs contact info for Emad Shahin

Hello,
If you have contact with Emad Shahin, please ask him to contact me. Thanks.

--
Ahmed Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
khorshid at aucegypt.edu

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ME and Semitics PhD Fellowships at U of Oslo
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1) Subject: ME and Semitics PhD Fellowships and PostDocs at U of Oslo

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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From: Stephan Guth <stephan.guth at ikos.uio.no>
Subject: ME and Semitics PhD Fellowships at U of Oslo

Dear all

I would like to call your kind attenion to the following open positions at
the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Univ. of Oslo,
some of which may be interesting for you or your students:

1 Ph.D. fellowship in Semitic studies:

http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207899/62042?iso=no

2 Ph.D. fellowships in Middle East Studies:
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207849/62042?iso=no

1 postdoc stipend "ideological and cultural history of the ME aftter 1850":
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207979/62042?iso=no

1 postdoc stipend "Islam as religious tradition":
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207991/62042?iso=no

Applications welcome!

Kind regards
Stephan Guth

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Lincoln HS Portland OR Full time Arabic IB
 teacher
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1) Subject: JOBS:Lincoln HS Portland OR Full time Arabic IB teacher

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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From:  z.sisyphusrocks at GMAIL.COM
Subject: JOBS:Lincoln HS Portland OR Full time Arabic IB teacher

   Lincoln High School in Portland, OR has posted an opening for a full
 time IB Arabic teacher at the following PPS link and the application period
 will remain open through August 3rd: http://jobs.pps.net/ Scroll down to
 the bottom to view this position. Position asks for native fluency but
 near-native fluency could also be acceptable.



 POSITION SUMMARY:
 Teach Arabic Language levels 1-2 through IB 9-10. Continue to develop
 curriculum that prepares diverse students to successfully complete IB
 exams. Willing to work with QFI as a global partner and the ability to
 travel with students to Qatar if needed. Must have native fluency in
 Arabic.

 The classroom teacher performs under supervision of a principal or other
 designated supervisor and has major responsibility for the instruction and
 supervision of students. Instruction of students shall include individual
 skill development, expansion of knowledge, and development of ability to
 reason. Supervision of students shall include guidance, development and
 safety. The classroom teacher functions in accordance with the established
 policies, rules, regulations and the performance standards of the
 District/State and the performance goals established for the teacher.

 Major Duties And Responsibilities

 1. Identifies the needs of a group of students as well as individual
 students and provides for continuous assessment of their ability.

 2. Develops lesson plans and instructional materials and performance goals
 in accordance with methods prescribed by the supervisor.

3. Provides instruction to students at appropriate levels in the subject
 matter(s) for which the teacher is assigned.

 4. Instructs students appropriately in citizenship and interpersonal
relationship, and responsibility.

 5. Provides instruction, organization and management in the classroom
 which creates an environment conducive to learning.

 6. Establishes, maintains and supports standards of personal conduct and
 discipline in accordance with the discipline policies and regulations of
 the district.

 7. Evaluates the students' academic progress and social growth, maintains
 appropriate records, prepares reports and communicates with parents or
 guardians on the individual student's progress.

 8. Supervises students both in and out of the classroom.

 9. Maintains professional competence through participation in district
 provided in-service activities and/ or self-selected professional growth
 activities related to their job responsibilities.

 10. Initiates, plans and participates in parent conferences and other
 parental contact.

 11. Participates in the assessment and planning of curriculum development
 and other programs to meet the needs of his/her assigned school.

 12. Follows established curriculum programs.

 13. May plan, coordinate and direct classified employees who are assigned
 to assist the teacher.

 14. Maintains effective communications with students, patrons and
 colleagues.

15.Performs other duties which may be assigned from time to time.

 *Additional Job Information*

 Employees must be properly licensed by Teacher Standards and Practices
 Commission for the assignment. If the posted position is within the core
 academic area, you must be designated as highly qualified by Teacher
 Standards and Practices Commission to teach the core subjects. Core
 academic areas include Language Arts (English), Reading, Mathematics,
 Sciences, Foreign Language (except Chinese-Mandarin and Arabic), Social
 Studies and Art.

 Portland Public Schools recognizes the diversity and worth of all
individuals and groups and their roles in society. It is the policy of the
 Portland Public Schools Board of Education that there will be no
 discrimination or harassment of individuals or groups on the grounds of
 age, color, creed, disability, marital status, national origin, race,
 religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status in any educational
 programs, activities or employment. Portland Public Schools is an equal
 opportunity and affirmative action employer.

 *Grades*

 9, 10, 11, 12

 *Open Date*
 07/25/2014

 *Closing Date*
 08/03/2014

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ACTFL Arabic SIG Community Page Discussion Board
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Tamara Haddad <TamaraHaddad at hebisd.edu>
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:12:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-l:LING:Gulf Arabic localism response
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1) Subject: Gulf Arabic localism response
2) Subject: Gulf Arabic localism response

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Mohammad Taha <arabic.tester.taha at gmail.com>
Subject: Gulf Arabic localism response

I would pursue hypotheses two and three. The Hola [??????] community in
Bahrain has their own distinct dialect which heavily borrows from languages
spoken in the Iranian plateau. Their dialect is known as Khodmooni
[???????].


Kind Regards,

Mohammad Taha

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:32 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Iran Conference in representation of prophet in art
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1) Subject: Iran Conference in representation of prophet in art

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: rizwanur rahman <rahman_r at yahoo.com>
Subject: Iran Conference in representation of prophet in art

Sistan Baluchistan University Zahedan Iran is organising "International
Congress on Prophet
  Muhammad's Representation in Art", to be held May 6-7 2015, at
Zahedan-Iran.
For details click the following link:
http://seminars.usb.ac.ir/icmra

Rizwanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Centre of Arabic and African Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi - 110067 INDIA

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:Naka'id of Jarir and Farazdak response
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1) Subject: Naka'id of Jarir and Farazdak response

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Giuliano Lancioni <giuliano.lancioni at uniroma3.it>
Subject: Naka'id of Jarir and Farazdak response

A good quality pdf of the original edition can be found on archive.org:


https://archive.org/details/nakaidofjariralf00jarr


https://archive.org/details/nakaidofjariralf01jarr?

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:WANTSJOB
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1) Subject: note from Moderator
2) Subject: Michael Schub

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: dilworth parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: note from moderator

I receive frequent requests to post notes from people looking for jobs
teaching Arabic, and I have declined to do so in the past.  This summer I
have decided to create a new category for such posts (WANTSJOB), and try
posting them on a trial basis.  This will allow people to delete them (or
filter them out) if they are not interested in looking at them, but will
also create an online resource for schools and people who suddenly find
themselves in need of an Arabic teacher at the last minute.
I welcome any reactions to this change.
dil parkinson

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Michael Schub <m7schub at gmail.com>
Subject: Micael Schub

Michael B. Schub (Ph. D. 1977, Berkeley) is available to teach courses in
Arabic (and/or Hebrew) on all levels beginning in the FALL, 2014 term.  If
interested,
please call (860)-523-9757.
     Thank you.

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:29 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online Arabic Interactive Storybook "Dunia fi
 Lubnan"
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1) Subject: Online Arabic Interactive Storybook "Dunia fi Lubnan"

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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: Michelle Tager <michelletager at hotmail.com>
Subject: Online Arabic Interactive Storybook "Dunia fi Lubnan"

? Enjoy the First Free Arabic Interactive Story Book Online (ISB)?

?Dunia Fi Lubnan? is an unique online Arabic interactive storybook
developed by Alef,b? multicultural center for children with support from
Qatar Foundation International through a Curriculum Development grant.

The overall purpose of this Interactive Story Book is to encourage the
enthusiastic development of the Arabic language, and a love for lifelong
learning of this language and its culture.

?Dunia Fi Lubnan? is an integrated educational material in that it uses
both Modern Standard Arabic,  ??????  and colloquial ??????? .

It is appropriate for Arabic heritage students as well as for learners
whose native language is English. In the latter case, it is recommended to
use the ISB with the assistance of a native person in order to best enjoy
the content. The target age group is 7 years old and up.

This material is composed of a fully illustrated interactive story,
comprehension quiz questions prompted by Nahla the bee in English, playful
drills to test reading, writing and comprehension, and cultural games from
which the learner can accumulate points to earn a surprise gift from Alefb.

This highly interactive, multimedia component works very well as an
enhancement to regular curricula for teaching Arabic as a foreign language
to children, teens and even adults, individually or in a classroom setting.

Twenty two fully illustrated pages tell the story of Dunia; a story not too
different from the story of many language learners, in the sense that she
has acquired some knowledge about the Arabic language, yet she feels shy
and uncomfortable with speaking.  She worries that others may mock her or
make fun of her accent when she goes to visit her grandparents in Lebanon.
Like many children, Dunia loves the game of soccer; she also respects
nature and its creatures. During her summer in Lebanon, she manages to
slowly break out of her shell, overcome the fear of speaking Arabic, and
make friends.

Tens of interactive self-correcting drills, audio files, cultural authentic
documents tackling topics such as Ibn Sina Robot, Teta?s recipes, or ?going
to a soccer game?, as well as a rich Companion Guide, wait to be discovered
and enjoyed by children and adults alike. The animations, sounds,
glossaries pages and English translation tools all provide helpful hints
and aid the learner in staying engaged.

When all of the modules are completed, learners will have acquired new
vocabulary, reinforced their reading, writing and comprehension skills, and
been exposed to different practices, products and perspectives of the
Arabic culture. Learners will be able to write a simple postcard using
vocabulary from the following topics: Greetings, Feelings, Activities,
Countries and Places, Colors, Food, Things and Family/Friends.

Download "Dunia Fi Lubnan? for free here.
http://alefb.org/storybook/storybook.html

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:24 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language
 Processing Last Call
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From:  Nizar Habash <habash at ccls.columbia.edu>
Subject: EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Last Call

 =======================================================

Last Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

      Apologies for multiple postings
      Please distribute to colleagues

=======================================================

Second Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014

Workshop Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html
Shared Task Website:
http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html

=======================================================

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).  Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences. This
workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a
forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to
the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions
are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.
Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text
error correction (see link to Shared Task Website above).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop: October 25, 2014

ORGANIZERS
Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University

Program Committee Members

Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l?Industrie Min?rale, Morocco
Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya
Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt
Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexis Nasr,  University of Marseille, France
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA
Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
Farhad  Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ghassan Mourad, Universit? Libanaise, Lebanon
Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA
Joseph Dichy, Universit? Lyon 2, France
Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco
Karine  Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Khalil Sima?an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria
Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France
Ossama Emam, IBM, USA
Otakar Smr?, D??m-e D?am Language Institute, Czech Republic
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France
Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt
Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran
Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA
Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:09:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:TRANS:Translation of al-Muntadham by Ibn al-Jawzi
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Date: 08 Jul 2014
From: raram <raram at umich.edu>
Subject: Translation of al-Muntadham by Ibn al-Jawzi


The Center for Muslims Contribution to Civilization located at Hamad Bin
Thani University in Doha, Qatar is looking for a translator to continue
translating 242 pages from al-Muntadham fi Tarikh  al-Mulouk  wal-Umam by
Ibn al-Jawzi. Please contact Professor Raji Rammuny: Telephone (734)
945-8489, Email  raram at umich.edu  for further information.

Thank you,

Raji Rammuny
Coordinator of Great Books of Islamic Civilization Translation Project
University of Michigan

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Online interactive storybook response
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From: Manuel Feria <mferia at gmail.com>
Subject: Online interactive storybook response

Thank you so much. I love it!
Best,
M.

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:27 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:WANTSJOB:Mohammed Shihab
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Date: 14 Jul 2014
From: mohammed shihab <ms5ef at virginia.edu>
Subject: Mohammed Shihab

My name is Mohammed Shihab (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language
and Culture, University of Virginia). I would like to add me to your list
please. I am a native speaker with broad knowledge in Arabic language and
literature. I will be available after the end of summer, 2014 on August,
20th, and ready to start teaching in the Fall, 2014. Many Thanks.

Best,

Mohammed Shihab
(434)-227-2955

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:22 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs bibliography on Arabic administrative language
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Date: 14 Jul 2014
From: Letizia Osti <letizia.osti at unimi.it>
Subject: Needs bibliography on Arabic administrative language

Dear colleagues

For a multilingual project involving Arabic, I am looking for basic
bibliography on the following subjects:

- administrative language.
- simplification of administrative language.
- linguistic and cultural mediation within administrative institutions
(e.g. multilingual communication with the public, etc.).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

Letizia Osti

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK:Arabic: A Linguistic Introduction
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Date: 14 Jul 2014
From: Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject: Arabic: A Linguistic Introduction

       I'd like to announce the publication of my latest book, Arabic: A
Linguistic Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press. It is
intended to provide an introduction to linguistic analysis for those who
know Arabic, or who are learning Arabic.  Here is the link (I hope it
works):

http://www.amazon.com/Arabic-Linguistic-Introduction-Karin-Ryding/dp/1107606942/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404913315&sr=1-1&keywords=Arabic%3A+A+Linguistic+Introduction

Thanks so much.  Karin

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New Article:Samir Naqqah and Alu Al-Ala'
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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Article:Samir Naqqah and Alu Al-Ala'

Journal Title:  Journal of Semitic Studies
Volume Number:  59
Issue Number:  2
Issue Date:  2014

Sam?r Naqq?sh in His Writings Challenges Existentialist Philosophers with
the Ideas of Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr??
Benyamin Rish

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section
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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject: Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section

It might be helpful if those in search of positions would indicate whether
they want full or part time positions, and what geographical areas they
would like to work in.

Best,
Alex

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: moderator
Subject: Suggestion for people who post in WANTJOB section

I agree with Alex.  Having your name and the fact that you want a job only
is not very helpful.  Besides the info Alex mentions, be sure to mention
your schooling (where, degrees obtained), and any relevant experience.
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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:31 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part
 3-Web
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1) Subject: GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3-Web

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: reposted from LDC <ldc at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3-Web

(2) GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3 -- Web
<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T14> was developed by LDC and
contains 217,158 tokens of word aligned Arabic and English parallel text
enriched with linguistic tags. This material was used as training data in
the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program.

Some approaches to statistical machine translation include the
incorporation of linguistic knowledge in word aligned text as a means to
improve automatic word alignment and machine translation quality. This is
accomplished with two annotation schemes: alignment and tagging. Alignment
identifies minimum translation units and translation relations by using
minimum-match and attachment annotation approaches. A set of word tags and
alignment link tags are designed in the tagging scheme to describe these
translation units and relations. Tagging adds contextual, syntactic and
language-specific features to the alignment annotation.

Other releases available in this series are:

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 1 -- Newswire
and Web (LDC2012T16 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2012T16>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 2 -- Newswire
(LDC2012T20 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2012T20>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 3 -- Web (
LDC2012T24 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2012T24>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging Training Part 4 -- Web (
LDC2013T05 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013T05>)

GALE Chinese-English Word Alignment and Tagging -- Broadcast Training Part
1 (LDC2013T23 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2013T23>)

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 1 -- Newswire and Web (
LDC2014T05 <http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T05>)

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 2 -- Newswire (LDC2014T10
<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2014T10>)

This release consists of Arabic source web data collected by LDC. The
distribution by genre, words, character tokens and segments appears below:

Language

Genre

Files

Words

CharTokens

Segments

Arabic

WB

2,449

154,144

217,158

7,332

Note that word count is based on the untokenized Arabic source, and token
count is based on the tokenized Arabic source.

The Arabic word alignment tasks consisted of the following components:

Normalizing tokenized tokens as needed

Identifying different types of links

Identifying sentence segments not suitable for annotation

Tagging unmatched words attached to other words or phrases

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment Training Part 3 -- Web is distributed
via web download.

2014 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this
data on disc.  2014 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16
free membership corpora.  Non-members may license this data for US$1750.


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From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jul 18 21:24:33 2014
From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dissertation: Information Structure and
 Intonation in Hijazi Arabic
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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: Muhammad Alzaidi <mohd.zaidi2007 at gmail.com>
Subject: New Dissertation: Information Structure and Intonation in Hijazi
Arabic

Institution: University of Essex
Program: MPhil/PhD in Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2014

Author: Muhammad Swaileh ALZAIDI

Dissertation Title: Information Structure and Intonation in Hijazi Arabic

Dissertation URL:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/papers/theses/Alzaidi14InforStruc.pdf
<http://bit.ly/horeshphd>

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
                     Phonetics
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Hijazi Arabic


Dissertation Director(s):
Louisa Sadler

Dissertation Abstract:

There is irrefutable evidence that many languages use intonation to express
the aspects of the information structure of an utterance. Recently evidence
has emerged that languages differ in how information structure (IS) is
marked intonationally. This thesis presents experimental work on the
prosodic encoding of Information Focus and Contrastive Focus (aspects of
IS, that is, concepts relating to the distribution of ?new? and ?contrast?
information) in Hijazi Arabic (an under-researched language). It provides
both a phonetic and a phonological analysis of the experimental data, the
latter couched in Autosegmental-Metrical Approach. It aims to (i) provide
an analysis of the word order in Hijazi Arabic (HA) and how it is used to
express IS, and (ii) provide an in-depth and systematic analysis of the
ways that intonation is used both phonologically and phonetically to encode
neutral focus, information focus, in-situ contrastive focus and ex-situ
contrastive focus in four focus structures: sentence-focus,
predicate-focus, argument-focus and focus preposing structure.

Based on insights from recent research, we propose two categories of Focus:
information focus and contrastive focus. We show how these categories are
reflected in HA word order and in intonation.

The results show that intonation and not word order is crucial and useful
in identifying the focus of the HA utterance. They show that focus has
local and global effects on the utterance. Focus attracts the nuclear pitch
accent, and compresses the pitch accent(s) of the following word(s).
Excursion size and the maximum F0 are found to be the two main acoustic
correlates of prosodic focus in HA. Focused words have significantly
expanded excursion size, post-focus words have significantly lowered F0,
but pre-focus words lack systematic changes.

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:New Publications from the Library of Arabic
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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: John Joseph Henry Rossetti <chip.rossetti at nyu.edu>
Subject: New Publications from the Library of Arabic Literature

Dear colleagues,

Below please find information about the Library of Arabic Literature series
and our most recent published volumes, now available for sale in both print
and e-book formats. We are offering a 20% discount on our books for Arabic-L
subscribers: when purchasing through our website below, please enter the
following discount code: LAL14 [valid through December 31, 2014]

*The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Mu?ammad*
by Ma?mar ibn R?shid
Edited and Translated by Sean W. Anthony
Foreword by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

424 pages
$35.00 Cloth
Link: http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/?book=11317

*Leg Over Leg: Volume Three*
*Leg Over Leg: Volume Four*
by A?mad F?ris al-Shidy?q
Edited and Translated by Humphrey Davies

*Volume Three*:
408 pages
$40.00 Cloth
Link: http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/?book=12067

*Volume Four*:
584 pages
$40.00 Cloth
Link: http://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/books/?book=12070

The Library of Arabic Literature (www.libraryofarabicliterature.org) is a
new series offering Arabic editions and English translations of key works
of classical and pre-modern Arabic literature, as well as anthologies and
thematic readers. Books in the series are edited and translated by
distinguished scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies, and are published in
parallel-text format with Arabic and English on facing pages. The Library
of Arabic Literature includes texts from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of
the modern period, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including
poetry, poetics, fiction, religion, philosophy, law, science, history, and
historiography.

Supported by a grant from the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and
established in partnership with NYU Press, the Library of Arabic Literature
produces authoritative Arabic editions and modern, lucid English
translations, with the goal of introducing the Arabic literary heritage to
scholars and students, as well as to a general audience of readers.

Thank you,

Chip Rossetti
Managing Editor
Library of Arabic Literature
New York University Press
838 Broadway, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-998-2433

Website:  www.libraryofarabicliterature.org

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy Semester and Year Abroad in Cairo
 2014/2015
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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: Arab Academy <info.arabacademy at gmail.com>
Subject: Arab Academy Semester and Year Abroad in Cairo 2014/2015

Arab Academy in Cairo is delighted to announce that our intensive Arabic
Semester and Year Abroad Programs in Cairo 2014/2015 are now available for
enrollment. We welcome all applicants ? from those who don?t know Arabic to
those at the most advanced levels, we are here to help you achieve
proficiency in Arabic.

In addition, we are more than happy to accommodate both individual students
and groups studying in Cairo as part of a university program.

*We offer you:*
    * Intensive Semester and Yearly Programs
    * Orientation session, handbook to life in Cairo, and proficiency test.
    * All levels of Arabic language taught, including instruction in MSA
and colloquial Arabic.
    * Small classes conducted entirely in Arabic at all levels.
    * Detailed weekly feedback.
    * Access to our award-winning online resources.
    * Cultural excursions and hands-on experiences integrated in the
curriculum.
    * Certificate of studies.
    * Dedicated, experienced and professional staff.
    * Help with accommodation.
    * Central location in Garden City in downtown Cairo.
    * An amazing adventure with Arabic language!

Program Details:
    * Fall Semester: September 7 - December 18, 2014.
    * Spring Semester: January 18 - May 22, 2015.
    * Enroll for one or both.
    * 20 contact hours per week (4 hours of Arabic classes per day X 5 days
a week).
    * Competitive Fees:
   - Semester Program: $2,340 (For 16 weeks of intensive study)
   - Yearly Program: $4,420 (For 32 weeks of intensive study)

Arab Academy in Cairo offers intensive Arabic programs to students aiming
at attaining higher levels in Arabic in the shortest possible time while
engaging with Arab culture. Our varied study abroad programs, offered
year-round, include an integrated program of cultural outings accompanied
by our Arabic teachers giving students a chance to practice Arabic both
inside and outside the classroom.  Arab Academy is open year round. Amongst
our prestigious clients are the American Embassy, University of Manchester,
and Duke University.

To apply or to find out more please visit our website:
http://www.arabacademy.com/en/arabic-egypt

Questions may be directed to: info at arabacademy.com

We look forward to receiving you this academic year!

--
Arab Academy (since 1997)
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Garden City 11451, Cairo, Egypt

E-mail: info at arabacademy.com
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Fan Page:
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Arab Academy Blog:
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Telephone Inquiries:
- Hanan Dawah, Student Support
Cell: +20 111 670 4021

- Eman Muhammad, Student Support
Cell: +20 111 020 2732

- Azza Herazi, Communications Coordinator
Cell: +20 100 111 1476

**** Our staff members respond to your questions Sundays through
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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:24:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:4th Call for Proposals: 4th International
 Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu,
 Feb 26-Mar 1 2015
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Language Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu, Feb 26-Mar 1 2015

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Date: 18 Jul 2014
From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <nflrc at hawaii.edu>
Subject: 4th Call for Proposals: 4th International Conference on Language
Documentation & Conservation, Honolulu, Feb 26-Mar 1 2015

  4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION (ICLDC)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
General papers, posters, and electronic posters

*** Please read carefully as some information has changed since our last
conference. ***


INTRODUCTION

The *4th International Conference on Language Documentation and
Conservation (ICLDC)*, ?Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application,? will be
held *February 26-March 1, 2015*, at the *Ala Moana Hotel* in *Honolulu,
Hawai?i*. The conference is hosted by the University of Hawai?i at Manoa
and is supported in part by the US National Science Foundation.

The program for this 3 ? day conference will feature two keynote talks, an
integrated series of Master Classes on the documentation of linguistic
structures, and a series of Sponsored Special Sessions on pedagogy in
language conservation. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of
Hawai?i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will
immediately follow the conference.

The theme of the 4th ICLDC, ?Enriching Theory, Practice, and Application,?
highlights the need to strengthen the links between language documentation
(practice), deep understanding of grammatical structure (theory), and
methods for teaching endangered languages (application). At this
conference, we intend to focus on language documentation as the
investigation of grammar and linguistic structure on the one hand, and the
development of that investigation into sound pedagogy for endangered
languages on the other. We hope you will join us.

For more information and links to past conferences, visit our conference
website:  http://icldc-hawaii.org/


*1) CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERAL CONFERENCE PAPERS, POSTERS, AND ELECTRONIC
POSTERS *
*Proposal deadline: August 31, 2014*

*Topics*
We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme,
?Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application.? Discipline-wide reflection on
the relationship between the documentation of linguistic structure and
language pedagogy is crucial if the proper documentation and conservation
of endangered languages is to be effective. Our aim here is two-fold: to
create citizen scientists who can reflect on their language for the purpose
of teaching and documenting without being hindered by metalanguage, and to
enrich the contributions of linguists to linguistic theory and description
via documentation.

We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and
revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting
language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of
applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those
domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that
treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also
as domains requiring discussion, clarification, and theorization in their
own right.

In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other
subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but
are not limited to:

   - Archiving matters
   - All aspects of pedagogy in language conservation
   - Community experiences of revitalization
   - Data management
   - Ethical issues
   - Language planning
   - Lexicography and grammar design
   - Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
   - Orthography design
   - Teaching/learning small languages
   - Technology in documentation ? methods and pitfalls
   - Topics in areal language documentation
   - Training in documentation methods ? beyond the university
   - Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies


*Presentation formats*
*Papers* will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of
question time.

*Posters* will be on display throughout the day of presentation. Poster
presentations will run during the early afternoon. Poster presentations are
recommended for authors who wish to present smaller, more specific topics,
or descriptions of particular projects.

*Electronic posters (e-posters) *are opportunities for presentations of
software, websites, and other computer-based projects, in an environment
that allows face-to-face interaction with the audience. Similar to a
traditional poster session, e-poster presenters will use their own laptop
computers to display their projects while the audience walks around,
watching demonstrations and asking questions. E-poster sessions will take
place in the early afternoon in a room with tables and internet access.


*2) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION*

*Rules for submission in all categories:*

   - Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in
   any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the
   region discussed.
   - Authors may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored
   proposal, or no more than two co-authored proposals. *In no case may an
   author submit more than one individually-authored proposal.*
   - Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters are *due
   by August 31, 2014*, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2014.
   - We will not be accepting any proposals for panel presentations or
   colloquia beyond the Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language
Conservation (deadline
   passed).
   - Because of limited space, please note that the Abstract Review
   Committee may ask that some general abstracts submitted as papers be
   presented as posters or electronic posters instead.
   - Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to
   the journal *Language Documentation & Conservation*
   <http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/> for publication.


*How to prepare your proposal:*

   -
   - *For proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters:* We
   ask for abstracts of *no more than 400 words* for online publication so
   that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your
   paper, and a* 50-word summary* for inclusion in the conference program.
   All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international
   experts on the topic.
   - *To facilitate blind peer review, please DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR
   AFFILIATION in your abstract or filename. **Your proposal should only
   include your presentation title, abstract, and list of references (if
   applicable). *
   - *If you are including references/citations to your own work in your
   abstract, please be sure to replace your name(s) with "Author".* For
   example, if you are Ted Smith and you wrote an article in 2009, which you
   are citing in your file (i.e., Smith (2009) ), you would change it to
   "Author (2009)."  If you are including a list of references at the end,
   also make sure to anonymize any of your publications similarly as well.
   - Please note that your reference list is *not* counted in your 400-word
   abstract maximum, only the main abstract text.
   - *Please save your abstract as an MS WORD DOCUMENT or PDF FILE*. MS
   Word is preferred. However, if you are using special fonts, special
   characters, or diagrams in your abstract, a PDF file is recommended to
make
   sure it displays as you intend.
   - *For a FILE NAME, use an abbreviated version of your title.* For
   example, if your presentation title is "Revitalizing Hawaiian for the
next
   generation: Social media tools," your filename might be
   "Revitalizing_Hawaiian.doc" or "Revitalizing_Hawaiian_social_media.pdf"
   - *Please follow the guidelines above when preparing your abstract.
   Submitted proposals that ignore them may be returned. *
   -


*To submit a general conference proposal (papers, posters, and electronic
posters - deadline August 31, 2014), visit the Call for Proposals section
of the ICLDC 4 website. <http://icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org>*

*Proposal review criteria:*

   - *Appropriateness of the topic: *Does the paper/poster address the
   themes of the conference?
   - *Presentation:* Is the abstract well-written? Does it suggest that the
   paper/poster will be well organized and clearly presented?
   - *Importance of the topic:* Is this an important topic within the area?
   Is the paper/poster likely to make an original contribution to knowledge
in
   the field? Will it stimulate discussion?
   - *Contribution to the discipline: *For talks, does the presentation
   make a methodological or theoretical contribution to the discipline? If
not
   (e.g., project descriptions), could the presentation be submitted as a
   poster or electronic poster?



*3) TIMELINE*

   - April 1, 2014: Call for Proposals announced
   - May 31, 2014: Proposals for Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language
   Conservation deadline PASSED
   - June 30, 2014: Notification of acceptance to Special Sessions
   - August 31, 2014: Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic
   posters deadline
   - October 1, 2014: Notification of acceptance for general papers,
   posters, and electronic posters
   - October 1, 2014: Early registration opens
   - January 15, 2015: Early registration deadline
   - February 26-March 1, 2015: 4th ICLDC


*4) SCHOLARSHIPS*

To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference,
scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by
(i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who
are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not
employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be
considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on
the proposal submission form. This is applicable to regular conference
papers only (not the Special Sessions). The scholarships are funded by
support from the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered
Languages Program.

NOTE: Please be advised that these scholarships are considered taxable
income under U.S. tax laws. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can
expect to receive a 1099 form to figure into their annual tax return for
2015. Non-U.S. citizens/residents may have the applicable taxable amount
(typically 30%) deducted from the scholarship check prior to receipt.


Questions?  Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu

Andrea L. Berez, Victoria Anderson, and Jim Yoshioka
4th ICLDC Executive Committee



************************************************************

*International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation
(ICLDC)*Phone:
+1-808-956-9424
Email: icldc at hawaii.edu

Website: http://www.icldc-hawaii.org
ICLDC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ICLDC/
ICLDC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/ICLDC_HI/

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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:34 -0600
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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: mohammed shihab <ms5ef at virginia.edu>
Subject: WANTSJOB:Mohammed Shihab

Here is my new update with suggested information:
My name is Mohammed Shihab (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Language
and
Culture, University of Virginia). I am a native speaker with broad
knowledge in Arabic language and literature. I am teaching right now at the
University of Virginia and I will be available after the end of summer,
2014 on August, 20th, and ready to start teaching in the Fall, 2014
.Preferred geographic areas is anywhere in the U.S.and/ or in the Middle-
East region. I am looking for both full time and part time positions. Below
are my contact phone number and emails. I have teaching experience for four
semesters in the U.S. and two years in the Middle- East. Many thanks again.

Best,

Mohammed Shihab
(434)-227-2955
ms5ef at virginia.edu
younisfa2002 at yahoo.com

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Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:'meatballs' in Arabic
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Subject: meatballs' in Arabic

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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:19 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:AD:Gerlach Arabic Poetry
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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From:  Gerlach Islamic Studies <office at gerlach-books.de>
Subject: Gerlach Arabic Poetry

Up to 25% discount on antiquarian books

CLASSIC & MODERN ARABIC POETRY

*** Fiscal year restrictions can be considered and books can be invoiced in
the new fiscal year ***


Please have a look at the title list which can be downloaded from this site:
http://www.gerlach-books.de/books_offers.php

Some of them bear light traces of wear (signature, ex libris). The overall
condition of the books is mostly very good or at least good.

Our offer:
- purchase of single antiquarian copies (first come, first served)
- 10% discount for any single book
- 25% discount when ordering 5 or more books
- plus shipping charges (surface or air mail delivery)
- plus 7% VAT (within the EU - if no VAT ID can be supplied only)
- our institutional and regular customers can order on open account
- first-time customers: credit card or pre-payment by bank transfer
preferred
- offer is valid until 5 August 2014 only


Looking forward to your orders.

Best regards from Berlin

(Ms) Dagmar Konrad

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: editorjwl at cityu.edu.hk <editorjwl at cityu.edu.hk>
Subject: Translation Across Time in J or World Languages CFP

Call for Papers

East and West Encounters: Translation across Time

Special Issue for the Journal of World Languages

Guest-edtiors
Alexandra Assis Rosa (University of Lisbon; University of Lisbon Centre for
English Studies)
Huang Guowen (Sun Yat-Sen University)

This special issue welcomes contributions addressing topics related (though
not circumscribed) to translation history, historiography and
metahistoriography.  Centred on translation broadly understood as an
intentional phenomenon of human and mostly intercultural communication,
this issue aims to focus on the role played by translation in Eastern and
Western cultural practices and encounters through time as well as on the
role of history to understand both translation and translation studies.  By
aiming to bring together Eastern and Western views on a selection of
translation history matters, including both inter- and intralingual, oral
(interpreting) and written translation, as well as phenomena such as
pseudotranslation, retranslation or indirect translation, a.o., this
special issue aims to contribute to the understanding of why, how and for
which purposes translation history matters.

We invite proposals focusing especially on the following topics:

?        Translation and History: On-going Projects to Map Translation

?        Translation in History: Main Periods and Trends

?        Translators in History

?        Translation Studies in History

?        Translation Theory in History

?        Method in Translation History

?        Historiography: Main Issues in Translation History

?        Translating Otherness: Eastern configurations of Western Identities

?        Translating Otherness: Western configurations of Eastern Identities

?        East and West Encounters in Translation: Main Issues and
Protagonists

Original articles of approximately 8000 words in length (including notes
and references) must be written in English. Before submission, the text
must be checked (e.g. by a native speaker, if you are not a native speaker
yourself) so as to comply with English academic writing guidelines.

Abstracts of 400-500 words should be sent by email to the guest editors at
a.assis.rosa at campus.ul.pt andflshgw at mail.sysu.edu.cn.



Timeline

Date

Issue

15 Jan 2015

Deadline for abstract submission to guest editors

1 Mar 2015

Notification on editors' decision

1 Sep 2015

Deadline for paper submission

30 Jun 2016

Submission of final versions of papers

Nov 2016

Estimated publication date



For further information and style guideline, visit
http://www.hallidaycentre.cityu.edu.hk/jwl.
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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: "Preslav I. Nakov" <pnakov at qf.org.qa>
Subject: Deadline of LT4CloseLang 2014 approaching

The paper/abstract submission deadline of LT4CloseLang 2014 is approaching.

Detailed information is available at
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=38721


LT4CloseLang: Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and
Language Variants
Motivation

Recent initiatives in language technology have led to the development of at
least minimal language processing toolkits for all EU-official languages as
well as for languages with a large number of speakers worldwide such as
Chinese and Arabic. This is a big step towards the automatic processing
and/or extraction of information, especially from official documents and
newspapers, where the standard, literary language is used.

Apart from those official languages, a large number of dialects or
closely-related language variants are in daily use, not only as spoken
colloquial languages but also in some written media, e.g., in SMS, chats,
and social networks. Building language resources and tools for them from
scratch is expensive, but the efforts can often be reduced by making use of
pre-existing resources and tools for related, resource-richer languages.

Examples of closely-related language variants include the different
variants of Spanish in Latin America, the Arabic dialects in North Africa
and the Middle East, German in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, French in
France and in Belgium, Dutch in the Netherlands and Flemish in Belgium,
etc. Examples of pairs of related languages include Swedish-Norwegian,
Bulgarian-Macedonian, Serbian-Bosnian, Spanish-Catalan, Russian-Ukrainian,
Irish-Gaelic Scottish, Malay-Indonesian, Turkish-Azerbaijani,
Mandarin-Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, and many other.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in building
language technology applications that make use of language closeness to
exploit existing resources in a related language or a language variant. A
previous version of this workshop, organised at RANLP 2013<
http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPLangVar2013>, attracted a
lot of research interest, showing the need for further activities.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
?         Case studies of using language resources and tools for related
languages and language variants
?         Adaptation of monolingual tools and resources for closely-related
languages and language variants
?         Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to
closely-related languages and language variants
?         Linguistic issues when adapting language resources and tools,
e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends, etc.
?         Machine translation between closely-related languages
Important Dates
?         Submission deadline: July 26, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PST
?         Acceptance/rejection notification: August 26, 2014
?         Camera-ready deadline: September 12, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PST
?         Workshop: October 29, 2014
Submissions

Submission should be done using START:

https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/LT4CloseLang14

Papers should be up to 9 pages long and should follow the formatting
instructions for EMNLP'2014<http://emnlp2014.org/call.html>.

Committee
?            Laura Alonso y Alemany (Univeristy of Cordoba, Argentina)
?            C?sar Antonio Aguilar (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de
Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile)
?            Jos? Casta?o (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
?            David Chiang (University of Southern California, USA)
?            Marta Costa-Juss? (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
?            Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
?            Kareem Darwish (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
?            Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
?            Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)
?            Francisco Guzman (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
?            Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK)
?            Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA)
?            Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg,Germany)
?            Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
?            Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
?            Thang Luong Minh (Stanford university, USA)
?            John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
?            Graham Neubig (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
?            Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University, Qatar)
?            Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
?            Slav Petrov (Google, New York, USA)
?            Stefan Riezler (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
?            Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
?            Hassan Sajjad (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
?            Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
?            Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
?            Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
?            J?rg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweden)
?            Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
?            Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
?            Pidong Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
?            Taro Watanabe (NICT, Japan)
Contact
?         Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
?         Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
?         Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject: 2nd Call for Papers Al-Arabiyya 48, Due August 15

Al-?Arabiyya: Call for submissions for Volume 48, 2015

Al-?Arabiyya, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of
Arabic, is a leading journal in the field of Arabic language and
linguistics. Al-?Arabiyya welcomes scholarly and pedagogical articles, and
book reviews that contribute to the advancement of study, criticism,
research, and teaching in the fields of Arabic language, linguistics, and
literature. We also consider responses and comments on articles published
in previous issues.

To be considered for the next issue, submissions are due August 15, by
8:00PM EST. We consider submissions year round and we may accept a
submission for the following issue if received after August 15. We do not
accept simultaneous submissions.

Please address all correspondence regarding submissions to:

Karin C. Ryding, editor
Al-Arabiyya Journal
c/o Georgetown University Press
3240 Prospect St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
email: aataeditor at aataweb.org

General guidelines
Authors are encouraged to present an original, scholarly contribution, a
perceptive restructuring of existing knowledge, or a discussion of an idea
with information and references on how to learn more about the topic.
References should be appropriately and sufficiently extensive, and
demonstrative of comprehensive awareness of international scholarship.
Conclusions drawn should be accurate, appropriately documented, and soundly
argued, without being overextended.
The material should be well-organized and the writing style fluent and
professional. We respectfully require that authors writing in a language
other than their native language have their contribution carefully checked
by a native speaker before submission. Previously published pieces or those
being considered for publication elsewhere should not be submitted.
Authors alone are responsible for the opinions they express and for the
accuracy of facts presented in their articles.

The journal welcomes translations and bibliographies, provided they meet
Al-?Arabiyya guidelines. Translations should be scholarly and accompanied
by an introduction or critical essay, annotations, and commentaries.
Bibliographies should also be annotated, critical, and accompanied by an
appropriate introduction. Translations and bibliographies are subject to
the same review process as articles.

Book reviews are 500?1,000 words in length, and are commissioned by the
book review editor. If you would like to propose a review, please contact
the book review editor, Gregory Bell, directly:
aatabookrevieweditor at aataweb.org.   Reviews of current and recently
published textbooks are particularly welcome. The journal also considers
review articles, which are approximately 1,500
words in length, double spaced. Review articles treat a major work or works
in the field as judged by the editor and the book review editor. Please
propose a review article to the book review editor or the editor prior to
submission.

Submission procedures
The overall length of articles should be appropriate to the material
treated and should not exceed 7,000 words (no more than 25 pp. in Times New
Roman, 12 pt., double spaced).

Articles with examples in transliterated/transcribed Arabic must use Doulos
SIL (available free: http://tinyurl.com/AATA-Translit-Font) for those
transcriptions/transliterations. It is acceptable to include appropriate
tables, figures, and illustrations but, upon acceptance, it is the author?s
responsibility to provide high-resolution, digital versions of each, as
well as permission (if necessary) for their use. The journal follows the
Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, and submissions should, too. Cited
forms (letters, morphemes, words, phrases, or sentences) should appear in
italics, e.g., the prefix bi-, the word dars. Italics are not used for
forms marked as being in phonemic or phonetic transcription, e.g., /sabt/,
[sapt]. The meaning of cited forms should appear in single quotation marks,
with no comma before it, e.g. walad ?boy.? Additional formatting
requirements may be requested, if preparing for publication.

Articles in Arabic will be considered and must be submitted using SIL?s
Scheherazade font
(available free: http://tinyurl.com/AATA-Arabic-Font).

Submissions are only accepted by email attachment. Please attach both a PDF
version and an original MS Word document. Number all pages consecutively in
the upper right-hand corner. Include an abstract in English of
approximately 100 to 150 words at the beginning of the article.

To aid the blind review process: Remove author?s name and identifying
remarks from the article. Include a cover sheet with: author?s name,
mailing address, email address, telephone number, academic affiliation, and
title of the article. For submissions with multiple authors, include all
authors? information on the cover sheet.

Articles will not be returned to contributors.

--
Karin Christina Ryding
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic Emerita
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:37:13 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop Last
 Call
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1) Subject: Deadline Extension and Paper Length Change for Arabic Natural
Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz at gmail.com>
Subject: Deadline Extension and Paper Length Change for Arabic Natural
Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014

 Dear all, due to several requests, we decided the following:

(1) We extend the submission deadline to July 28 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11
hours).
 This includes both the main workshop papers and the shared task
descriptions.

(2) We extend the page length of the main workshop papers to be up to 9
pages + any number of reference pages.
The shared task descriptions are still up to 4 pages with 2 additional
pages of references.

Regards,
Workshop Organizers

=======================================================

Last Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

      Apologies for multiple postings
      Please distribute to colleagues

=======================================================

Last Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014

Workshop Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html
Shared Task Website:
http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html

=======================================================

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).  Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences. This
workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a
forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.
 Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to
the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions
are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.
Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text
error correction (see link to Shared Task Website above).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014 => July 28 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11
hours)
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop: October 25, 2014

ORGANIZERS
Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University

Program Committee Members

Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l?Industrie Min?rale, Morocco
Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya
Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt
Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexis Nasr,  University of Marseille, France
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA
Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ghassan Mourad, Universit? Libanaise, Lebanon
Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA
Joseph Dichy, Universit? Lyon 2, France
Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Khalil Sima?an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria
Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France
Ossama Emam, IBM, USA
Otakar Smr?, D??m-e D?am Language Institute, Czech Republic
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France
Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt
Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran
Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA
Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco



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Wajdi Zaghouani
Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City
PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar
Office: CMU-Q 1210, Phone: (+974) 4454-8646
Email: wajdiz at qatar.cmu.edu
Web: www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:meatballs
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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From: Nour Abdeen <nour_abdeen2010 at yahoo.com>
Subject: meatballs

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Nour Abdeen
Ph.D. in Literary and Critical Studies,at Arabic Department.
Lecturer at Arabic Center for foreigners.
Faculty of Arts,

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs contact info for Emad Shahin
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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From:  Ahmed Hassan Khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: Needs contact info for Emad Shahin

Hello,
If you have contact with Emad Shahin, please ask him to contact me. Thanks.

--
Ahmed Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
khorshid at aucegypt.edu

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:39 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:ME and Semitics PhD Fellowships at U of Oslo
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1) Subject: ME and Semitics PhD Fellowships and PostDocs at U of Oslo

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1)
Date: 28 Jul 2014
From: Stephan Guth <stephan.guth at ikos.uio.no>
Subject: ME and Semitics PhD Fellowships at U of Oslo

Dear all

I would like to call your kind attenion to the following open positions at
the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Univ. of Oslo,
some of which may be interesting for you or your students:

1 Ph.D. fellowship in Semitic studies:

http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207899/62042?iso=no

2 Ph.D. fellowships in Middle East Studies:
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207849/62042?iso=no

1 postdoc stipend "ideological and cultural history of the ME aftter 1850":
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207979/62042?iso=no

1 postdoc stipend "Islam as religious tradition":
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1207991/62042?iso=no

Applications welcome!

Kind regards
Stephan Guth

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From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:03:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Lincoln HS Portland OR Full time Arabic IB
 teacher
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Date: 28 Jul 2014
From:  z.sisyphusrocks at GMAIL.COM
Subject: JOBS:Lincoln HS Portland OR Full time Arabic IB teacher

   Lincoln High School in Portland, OR has posted an opening for a full
 time IB Arabic teacher at the following PPS link and the application period
 will remain open through August 3rd: http://jobs.pps.net/ Scroll down to
 the bottom to view this position. Position asks for native fluency but
 near-native fluency could also be acceptable.



 POSITION SUMMARY:
 Teach Arabic Language levels 1-2 through IB 9-10. Continue to develop
 curriculum that prepares diverse students to successfully complete IB
 exams. Willing to work with QFI as a global partner and the ability to
 travel with students to Qatar if needed. Must have native fluency in
 Arabic.

 The classroom teacher performs under supervision of a principal or other
 designated supervisor and has major responsibility for the instruction and
 supervision of students. Instruction of students shall include individual
 skill development, expansion of knowledge, and development of ability to
 reason. Supervision of students shall include guidance, development and
 safety. The classroom teacher functions in accordance with the established
 policies, rules, regulations and the performance standards of the
 District/State and the performance goals established for the teacher.

 Major Duties And Responsibilities

 1. Identifies the needs of a group of students as well as individual
 students and provides for continuous assessment of their ability.

 2. Develops lesson plans and instructional materials and performance goals
 in accordance with methods prescribed by the supervisor.

3. Provides instruction to students at appropriate levels in the subject
 matter(s) for which the teacher is assigned.

 4. Instructs students appropriately in citizenship and interpersonal
relationship, and responsibility.

 5. Provides instruction, organization and management in the classroom
 which creates an environment conducive to learning.

 6. Establishes, maintains and supports standards of personal conduct and
 discipline in accordance with the discipline policies and regulations of
 the district.

 7. Evaluates the students' academic progress and social growth, maintains
 appropriate records, prepares reports and communicates with parents or
 guardians on the individual student's progress.

 8. Supervises students both in and out of the classroom.

 9. Maintains professional competence through participation in district
 provided in-service activities and/ or self-selected professional growth
 activities related to their job responsibilities.

 10. Initiates, plans and participates in parent conferences and other
 parental contact.

 11. Participates in the assessment and planning of curriculum development
 and other programs to meet the needs of his/her assigned school.

 12. Follows established curriculum programs.

 13. May plan, coordinate and direct classified employees who are assigned
 to assist the teacher.

 14. Maintains effective communications with students, patrons and
 colleagues.

15.Performs other duties which may be assigned from time to time.

 *Additional Job Information*

 Employees must be properly licensed by Teacher Standards and Practices
 Commission for the assignment. If the posted position is within the core
 academic area, you must be designated as highly qualified by Teacher
 Standards and Practices Commission to teach the core subjects. Core
 academic areas include Language Arts (English), Reading, Mathematics,
 Sciences, Foreign Language (except Chinese-Mandarin and Arabic), Social
 Studies and Art.

 Portland Public Schools recognizes the diversity and worth of all
individuals and groups and their roles in society. It is the policy of the
 Portland Public Schools Board of Education that there will be no
 discrimination or harassment of individuals or groups on the grounds of
 age, color, creed, disability, marital status, national origin, race,
 religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status in any educational
 programs, activities or employment. Portland Public Schools is an equal
 opportunity and affirmative action employer.

 *Grades*

 9, 10, 11, 12

 *Open Date*
 07/25/2014

 *Closing Date*
 08/03/2014

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