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1) Subject:Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing

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Date: 11 Jan 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Prof_Khaled Shaalan <<a href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@gmail.com">khaled.shaalan@gmail.com</a>></span>
Subject:Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><div dir="ltr">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Table of contents for the Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)<br>ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) <a href="http://talip.acm.org/">http://talip.acm.org/</a><br>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). <br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>We are pleased to announce the table of contents for the ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) <br>Volume 8 ,  Issue 4  (December 2009) is now available on The ACM Portal<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Introduction to the Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing<br>K. Shaalan, A. Farghaly<br>     <br>Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Solutions<br>Ali Farghaly, Khaled Shaalan<br><br>Discriminative Phrase-Based Models for Arabic Machine Translation<br>Cristina España-Bonet, Jesús Giménez, Lluís Màrquez<br>     <br>Morphology-Based Segmentation Combination for Arabic Mention Detection<br>Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni<br>     <br>Cross-Language Information Propagation for Arabic Mention Detection<br>Imed Zitouni, Radu Florian<br> <br>Automatic Speech-to-Text Transcription in Arabic<br>Lori Lamel, Abdelkhalek Messaoudi, Jean-Luc Gauvain<br> <br>Sura Length and Lexical Probability Estimation in Cluster Analysis of the Qur’an<br>Hermann Moisl<br>=======<br>Full text availabe at: <a href="http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1644879&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&type=issue&idx=J820&part=transaction&WantType=Transactions&title=ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Asian%20Language%20Information%20Processing%20%28TALIP%29&CFID=://www.google.ae/url?sa=t&CFTOKEN=www.google.ae/url?sa=t">http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1644879&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&type=issue&idx=J820&part=transaction&WantType=Transactions&title=ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Asian%20Language%20Information%20Processing%20%28TALIP%29&CFID=://www.google.ae/url?sa=t&CFTOKEN=www.google.ae/url?sa=t</a><br>========<br><br>>>>>> Guest Editors <<<<<<br>* Prof. Khaled Shaalan, (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK; Faculty of Computers & <br><br>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 <br><br>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 clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Khaled<br>________________________________________________________________________________________<br>Khaled Shaalan, PhD<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>Personal Website: <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/khaledshaalan">http://sites.google.com/site/khaledshaalan</a><br><br>(Fellow) School of Informatics<br>University of Edinburgh, UK<br></div><div><br></div></span>
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