<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="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: Wed 07 Jan 2009</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:CFP-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: 07 Jan 2009</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:CFP-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>ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)<br><a href="http://talip.acm.org/">http://talip.acm.org/</a><br>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).<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>* ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (2005, 2007)<br><br>This special issue of the ACM Transactions on Asian Language<br>Information Processing (TALIP) is intended to present the<br>state-of-the-art in research on Arabic natural language processing,<br>Arabic computational linguistics, applied Arabic linguistics and<br>related areas. This call is intended to be as broad as possible. We<br>solicit original research papers on topics including, but not limited<br>to:<br><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: 1 April 2009<br>* Notification of 1st decision: 1 July 2009<br>* Revisions due: 15 August 2009<br>* Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2009<br>* Final version submitted: 1 November 2009<br>* Issue publication: March 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>Papers should be formatted following the style guidelines for the ACM<br>Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing<br>(<a href="http://talip.acm.org/">http://talip.acm.org</a>). Please submit papers in PDF format using the<br>web-based submission system Manuscript Central<br>(<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip</a>). In order to identify the<br>submission as for the special issue, please indicate "This paper is<br>being submitted to the Special Issue on Arabic NLP" on the first page<br>of the paper. Please notice that the typical paper length is 20-30<br>pages.<br><br> *-*-*-*-*<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Guest Editors <<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>* Prof. Khaled Shaalan, (Fellow) School of Informatics University of<br>Edinburgh, UK; Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University;<br>Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai. Email:<br>k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg.<br>* Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group,<br>Oracle USA, CA; Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey<br>Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA. Email:<br>ali.farghaly_AT_oracle.com<br><br>For a one page 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>-- <br>Regards,<br>Khaled<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: 07 Jan 2009</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>