<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="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Arabic-L: Thu 26 Feb 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 80, 176); ">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</span></a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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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; ">-------------------------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; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">1) Subject:NooJ 2009 Call for Abstracts</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; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Date: 26 Feb 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">From:mesfar slim <<a href="mailto:mesfarslim@yahoo.fr">mesfarslim@yahoo.fr</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Subject:NooJ 2009 Call for Abstracts</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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">********************************************************************<br> *Second Call for abstracts*<br>NOOJ'09 : Conference & Workshop<br>08-10 June 2009, Tozeur , Tunisia * *<br></span><a href="http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#800080">www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.<br> ********************************************************************<br>*Important Dates*</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">· Abstract submission: Mars 15, 2009</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">· Notification of Acceptance : May 04, 2009</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">· Conference : 08-10 June, 2009<br> ********************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"><br>NOOJ 2009 will be organized by the research laboratory </span><a href="mailto:MIR@CL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:MIR@CL"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#0000ff">MIR@CL</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><br>(Multimedia InfoRmation & Advanced Computing Laboratory), Sfax<br>University in collaboration with the "Semio-linguistic, the Didactic<br>and computer science Laboratory", Franche-Comté University and the<br>"Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Claude Ledoux".</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">NOOJ 2009 will be held in Tozeur city-Tunisia, 450 Km in the south-west of Tunis .</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"><br>The conference intends to</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> - give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics and in<br> Computational Linguistics the opportunity to meet and share their<br> experience as developers, researchers and teachers;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> - present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP<br> applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities,<br> as well as its future developments;</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> - offer researchers and graduate students two tutorials (one basic<br> and one advanced) to help them parse corpora and build NLP<br> applications using NooJ.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> - Present NooJ's Arabic resources to all researchers in Arabic<br> studies : linguists, computational linguists as well as all<br> researchers who work with/on Arabic corpora.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">NooJ is a freeware, linguistic engineering development environment<br>used to formalize various types of textual phenomena (orthography,<br>lexical and productive morphology, local, structural and<br>transformational syntax) using a large gamut of computational devices<br>(from Finite-State Automata to Augmented Recursive Transition<br>Networks). NooJ includes tools to construct, test, debug, maintain and<br>accumulate large sets of linguistic resources, and can apply them to<br>large texts.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">Modules for a dozen languages are already available for free download:<br>Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, English, French,<br>Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. A dozen of<br>other modules are under construction.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> ******************************************************<br> *Topics of Interest*</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">Suggested topics include but are not limited to:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">· Syntactic analysis</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">· Lexical analysis</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">· Linguistic resources<br>· Dictionary</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"><br>******************************************************:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">*Submission*<br>We invite the submission of papers until the March 15, 2009 either in<br>English or in French. The abstracts should contain the title of the<br>article, the name, the institution, the surface mail and the<br>electronic address of each co-author. The abstracts should not exceed<br>one page, and should be submitted from the workshop web site:<br></span><a href="http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#800080">www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">All proposals will be reviewed by the scientific committee. You will<br>be given notice about the acceptance of the proposals no later than<br>May 04, 2009.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">For more information, please contact:<br></span><a href="mailto:abdelmajid.benhamadou@isimsf.rnu.tn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:abdelmajid.benhamadou@isimsf.rnu.tn"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#0000ff">abdelmajid.benhamadou@isimsf.rnu.tn</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"></span> </p><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">********************************************************************:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">*Program Committee***</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* *Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou* (MIRACL, ISIM-Sfax , Tunisia )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* *Max Silberztein* ( University of Franche-Comté , France )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Anaid Donabedian (INALCO, Paris)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Belinda Maia ( University of Porto , Portugal )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Bilel Gargouri (MIRACL, FSEG-Sfax , Tunisia )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Denis Le Pesant (University Paris 10)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Dusko Vitas ( University of Belgrade , Serbia )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Gisele Chevalier ( University of Moncton , Canada )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Kais Haddar (MIRACL, FSS-Sfax , Tunisia )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Kimmo Koskenniemi ( University of Helsinki , Finland )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Krzysztof Bogacki ( University of Warshaw , Poland )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Mireille Piot (University Stendhal 3, Grenoble )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Odile Piton (University Paris 1, France)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Peter Machonis (Intnl University of Florida , USA )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Philippe Schepens ( University of Franche-Comté , France )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Simona Vietri (University Salerne , Italy )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Xavier Blanco (University Autonomous Barcelona , Spain )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"><br>*Organization Committee***</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Bilel GARGOURI, FSEG Sfax , Tunisia</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Héla FEHRI, FS Sfax , Tunisia</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Inès ZALILA, FS Sfax , Tunisia</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "><span lang="EN-GB">* Kais HADDAR, FS Sfax , Tunisia</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; ">* Slim MESFAR, ISI Tunis,Tunisia</div><div><br></div></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">End of Arabic-L: 26 Feb 2009</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>