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</span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Wed 16 Sep 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:Special Session on Arabic Information Processing - Marakesh 09</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: 16 Sep 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Karim Bouzoubaa <<a href="mailto:karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma">karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Special Session on Arabic Information Processing - Marakesh 09</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-size: medium; "><br><a href="http://www.ibima.org/MA2009/aip.html">http://www.ibima.org/MA2009/aip.html</a><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Arabic Information Processing<br><br><br>Submission deadline for Special session 9 October 2009<br>_Session Description<br>_<br>Arabic is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and <br>spoken by more than 300 millions of people all around the world. Its <br>characteristics - highly inflectional, complex morphology, word <br>position-dependent form of a character, long vowels and short vowels <br>(often not used), no capital letters etc.- makes the Arabic processing <br>very challenging.<br><br>In the last few years many Arabic countries have felt the need to use <br>their own language to spread the use of ICT among their populations and <br>communities and also in some situations to protect their language and <br>culture. Therefore, we would like to focus on specific issues that would <br>help citizens living in Arabic countries to have access to information <br>and technologies (open source resources, dictionaries, search engines, <br>grammar checkers, etc.) in their mother tongues and therefore discuss <br>requirements to customize existing technologies.<br><br>The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in <br>the area of Arabic Information Processing in order to provide a <br>wide-scope forum for discussion.<br><br>Topics of this session are (non limitative list):<br><br> * Developing culturally and linguistically aware Information Systems<br> for tha Arab world.<br> * Choice of information systems development methodologies for the<br> Arab world.<br> * Standardising Arabic Information Processing Vocabulary<br> * Building of Arabic Ontologies, taxonomies and dictionaries.<br> * Arabic Information extraction systems<br> * Arabic Web-development<br> * Machine translation systems for the Arabic Language<br> * Arabic natural language processing<br><br><br>Papers in English and French will be considered. Papers will be <br>evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution. It <br>is IBIMA policy to send complete papers to two reviewers for full blind <br>peer review and to send a summary of review back to the author(s) . <br>Short papers/abstracts will be reviewed by reviewer and/or the editor. <br>All review comments and suggestions should be addressed in the final <br>submission. Submitted Papers must not have been previously published or <br>currently submitted for publication elsewhere.<br><br>Conference proceedings will be published as an e-book on a CD (ISBN)<br><br>Indicate the session name on your manuscript. All Submissions should be <br>sent to only one e-mail: either <a href="mailto:MA2009@ibima.org">MA2009@ibima.org</a> <br><<a href="mailto:MA2009@ibima.org">mailto:MA2009@ibima.org</a>> or the session chair.<br><br>Chair: Karim Bouzoubaa<br>Mohammadia School of Engineers, Mohamed Vth University – Agdal, Morocco<br><a href="mailto:karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma">karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma</a> <<a href="mailto:karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma">mailto:karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma</a>><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Karim Bouzoubaa, Ph.D<br>Department of Computer Science<br>EMI (Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, Mohammadia School of Engineers)<br>Mohamed Vth Agdal University<br>Avenue Ibnsina B.P. 765 Agdal <br>Rabat, Morocco<br>Tel : +212 (0) 37 77.19.05/06 <br>Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53<br><a href="mailto:karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma">karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma</a> <br><a href="mailto:karimbouzoubaa@yahoo.com">karimbouzoubaa@yahoo.com</a><br><a href="http://www.emi.ac.ma/bouzoubaa">www.emi.ac.ma/bouzoubaa</a><br></span></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-size: medium;"><br></span></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: 16 Sep 2009</div></div></body></html>