<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; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 80, 176); ">arabic-l@byu.edu</span></a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">[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; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 80, 176); "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a></span> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> 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; 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:Special issue of Arabic Natural Language Processing TALIP</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: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; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Subject:Special issue of Arabic Natural Language Processing TALIP</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; "><div dir="ltr">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 area extending from the Arabian Gulf in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It is also the language in which some of the world's greatest works of literature, science, and history have been written.<br><br>Arabic is a strongly structured and highly derivational language. Arabic language processing requires the treatment of the language constituents at all levels. Each level requires extensive study and exploitation of the associated linguistic characteristics. Over the last few years, Arabic natural language processing (ANLP) has been gaining increasing importance, and has found a wide range of applications including: machine translation, information extraction, and tutoring systems. These applications require developing innovative approaches and techniques for natural language analysis, natural language generation, and linguistic resources.<br><br>Various forums have been dedicated to ANLP:<br>* Special track on Natural Language Processing, The International Conference on Informatics and Systems (NLP-INFOS 2008), Cairo Univ., Egypt.<br>* Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, LREC, 2008<br>* Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, workshop series (04, 07).<br>* International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (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 Information Processing (TALIP) is intended to present the state-of-the-art in research on Arabic natural language processing, Arabic computational linguistics, applied Arabic linguistics and related areas. This call is intended to be as broad as possible. We solicit original research papers on topics including, but not limited 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>>>>> Important Dates <<<<<<br>* 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>>>>>> Submission Guidelines <<<<<<br>Papers should be formatted following the style guidelines for the ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (<a href="http://talip.acm.org/">http://talip.acm.org</a>). The instructions for preparing manuscripts for submission can be found at <a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions">http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions</a>. Please submit papers in PDF format using the web-based submission system Manuscript Central (<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip</a>). In order to identify the submission as for the special issue, please indicate "This paper is being submitted to the Special Issue on Arabic NLP" on the first page of the paper. Please notice that the typical paper length is 20-30 pages.<br><br> *-*-*-*-*<br><br>>>>>> Guest Editors <<<<<<br>* Prof. Khaled Shaalan, (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK; Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University; Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai. Email: <a href="http://k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg/">k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg</a>.<br>* Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group, Oracle USA, CA; Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA. Email: <a href="http://ali.farghaly_AT_oracle.com/">ali.farghaly_AT_oracle.com</a><br><br>For a one page PDF version of this Call for papers upload <a href="http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf">http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Khaled<br>________________________________________________________________________________________<br>Khaled Shaalan, Ph. D.<br>Professor<br>Computer Science Dept.<br>Faculty of Computers & Information<br>Cairo University<br><br>5 Ahmed Zewel St.,<br>Orman, Dokki, Giza<br>12613 Egypt<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:k.shaalan@fci-cu.edu.eg">k.shaalan@fci-cu.edu.eg</a><br>Personal Email: <a href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@gmail.com">khaled.shaalan@gmail.com</a> <br><br>(Fellow) School of Informatics<br>University of Edinburgh, UK<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></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>