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">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Tue 30 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; 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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: 30 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:Arabic Resources and Tools Conference</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; ">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2nd International Conference on Arabic Resources and Tools Conference <<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">22-23 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<a href="http://www.medar.info/conference">http://www.medar.info/conference</a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><br><br><br>The second international conference on Arabic Language Resources and<br>Tools is organised by the MEDAR consortium in Cairo, Egypt. MEDAR<br>((Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology) is a<br>follow-up of NEMLAR, and is supported by the European Commission.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Conference aims <<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>Language Resources (LRs) are a central component of the linguistic<br>infrastructure, necessary for the development of HLT applications and<br>products, and therefore for industrial development. In this conference<br>we will focus on Arabic language technology and on the necessary<br>language resources and tools for both research and commercial<br>development of language technology for Arabic. Multilingual language<br>technology is a particular focus, as well as general methodologies.<br>The other important aspect for the promotion of Arabic language<br>technology is cooperation: Cooperation is extremely important for the<br>advancement of the field, be it cooperation between European, Arabic<br>and American partners, cooperation between Arabic partners,<br>cooperation between research and industry etc. MEDAR will present its<br>first proposal for a Cooperation Roadmap, and will seek discussion and<br>collaboration for its final version. The aim of this conference is to<br>provide a forum for the discussion of the state-of-the-art for Arabic<br>resources and tools, in particular for machine translation and<br>multilingual information retrieval, discuss problems and<br>opportunities, exchange information regarding LRs and tools, their<br>applications, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and<br>needs, requirements coming from the new e-society, both with respect<br>to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. The<br>roadmap discussions will in particular bring in policy issues and<br>collaboration and organisation issues.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Important Dates <<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos: 30 January 2009<br>Notification of acceptance: 9 March 2009<br>Final versions for the proceedings: 6 April 2009<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">For Further Information <<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Bente Maegaard (co-ordinator)<br>Tel: + 45 35 32 90 90<br>Fax: + 45 35 32 90 89<br>Email: nemlar[AT]hum.ku.dk<br>Web: <a href="http://www.medar.info/">www.medar.info</a><br><br>_______________________________<br>Bente Maegaard,<br>bente[AT]cst.dk<br>Njalsgade 140, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark, URL: <a href="http://www.cst.ku.dk/">www.cst.ku.dk</a><br>Tel +45 3532 9074 (dir.), Fax +45 3532 9089<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; "><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: 30 Dec 2008</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>