<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 19 Dec 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Special Issue of Arabic Natural Language Processing</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 19 Dec 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Prof_Khaled Shaalan <<a href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@gmail.com">khaled.shaalan@gmail.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Special Issue of Arabic Natural Language Processing</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)<br>International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL)<br>World Scientific <a href="http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol">http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol</a><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br>Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by over 250 million people, in an<br>area extending from the Arabian Gulf in the east to the Atlantic Ocean<br>in the west. It is one of the six official languages of the United<br>Nations. It is also the language in which some of the world's greatest<br>works of literature, science, and history have been written.<br><br>Arabic is a strongly structured and highly derivational language.<br>Arabic language processing requires the treatment of the language<br>constituents at all levels. Each level requires extensive study and<br>exploitation of the associated linguistic characteristics. Over the<br>last few years, Arabic natural language processing (ANLP) has been<br>gaining increasing importance, and has found a wide range of<br>applications including: machine translation, information extraction,<br>and tutoring systems. These applications require developing innovative<br>approaches and techniques for natural language analysis, natural<br>language generation, and linguistic resources.<br><br>Various forums have been dedicated to ANLP:<br>• Special track on Natural Language Processing, The International<br>Conference on Informatics and Systems (NLP-INFOS 2008), Cairo Univ.,<br>Egypt.<br>• Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and<br>local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, LREC, 2008<br>• Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, workshop<br>series (04, 07).<br>• International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools<br>(NEMLAR 2004), Cairo Egypt,<br><br>This special issue of the International Journal of Computer Processing<br>of Oriental Languages is intended to present the state-of-the-art in<br>research on Arabic natural language processing, Arabic computational<br>linguistics, applied Arabic linguistics and related areas. This call<br>is intended to be as broad as possible. We solicit original research<br>papers on topics including, but not limited to:<br>• Linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.)<br>• Transliteration, transcription and diacritization<br>• Part of speech tagging<br>• Morphological analysis and generation<br>• Shallow and deep parsing<br>• Machine translation<br>• Word sense and syntactic disambiguation<br>• Semantic analysis<br>• Information extraction and retrieval<br>• Question answering<br>• Text clustering, and classification<br>• Text summarization<br>• Text and web content mining<br>• Named entity recognition<br>• Colloquial-based language processing<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Important Dates <<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>• Submissions due for review: 15 Jan 2009<br>• Notification of 1st decision: 30 April 2009<br>• Revisions due: 30 May 2009<br>• Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2009<br>• Final version submitted: 15 July 2009<br>• Issue publication: 2010<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Submission Guidelines <<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure<br>or table as 200 words) and should follow the journal's style and<br>presentation guidelines (see<br><a href="http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/mkt/guidelines.shtml)">http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/mkt/guidelines.shtml)</a>. References<br>should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the<br>Journal online submission system at<br><a href="http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/editorial/submitpaper.shtml">http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/editorial/submitpaper.shtml</a>. In the<br>message to editors, please state clearly that the paper is submitted<br>to the special issue on Arabic NLP. An electronic version of the<br>paper should also be submitted directly to the Guest Editor by e-mail<br>at the same time.<br><br> * * * * *<br><br>For further information, contact Guest Editor Prof. Khaled Shaalan<br>- (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK<br>- Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai<br>- Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University:<br>k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg.<br><br>For a PDF version of this Call for papers upload<br><a href="http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf">http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf</a><br><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 19 Dec 2008</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>