<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Arabic-L: Mon 11 Jan 2010</div><div>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</div><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><div>></div><div>[To post messages to the list, send them to </div>arabic-l@byu.edu<div>]</div><div>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">listserv@byu.edu<div> with first line reading:</div><div> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>1) Subject:Arabic Language Technology Center (Cairo)</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div>1)</div><div>Date: 11 Jan 2010</div><div>From:Diaa Fayed <dyaafayed@gmail.com></div><div>Subject:Arabic Language Technology Center (Cairo)</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Colleagues,<br>I like to inform you that we in Cairo have launched a new Foundation<br>called (Arabic Language Technology Center ALTEC). We are planning to<br>devote this year (2010) to develop a roadmap for the Arabic Language<br>Technologies. Find attached our proposal. We need this roadmap to be<br>developed by all of us. We like to make a collective work within all<br>the Arabic region with all the efforts for even the people involved<br>with the Arabic Human Language Technologies AHLT all over the world.<br>We intend not only to make a professional work, but we also insist to<br>make it in complete collaboration with all the stake holders. That is<br>enough to have fragmented work here and there. The Arabic language is<br>in danger, this the classification of the UN. With good planned and<br>persevere work we must be able to collectively develop an excellent<br>future for the AHLT.<br>As you are going to read in our plan it is a one year plan with few<br>workshops and a final conference.<br>We need from you the following:<br>1. To select at least one representative for each entity<br>(university or even a company specialized in the area)<br>2. Invite the relevant and interested specialized professors in<br>other entities that you know.<br>3. We are going to formulate a forum, so that we can collectively<br>exchange ideas and develop more interested people and to derive deep<br>into the project.<br>4. We will need also the interest of each professor, because we<br>are going to formulate groups to study specialized projects or<br>subjects like the ones mentioned in the proposal for the roadmap.<br>Please read the attached documents and your feedbacks are highly recommended.<br>Best Regards;<br>Mohsen Rashwan;<br>Professor at Cairo University,<br>Faculty of Engineering,<br>Electronics and Communications Department.<br>And the Chairman and CEO for RDI Corp.<br><a href="http://www.RDI-Eg.com/">www.RDI-Eg.com</a>, specialized in AHLT<br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Diaa Mohamed Fayed<br><a href="mailto:dyaafayed@yahoo.com">dyaafayed@yahoo.com</a><br>mobil: +2 010 832 010 4<br>PhD student,<br>Faculty of Computers and Information,<br>Cairo University, Egypt.<br><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/dyaafayedsite/">http://sites.google.com/site/dyaafayedsite/</a></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>End of Arabic-L: 11 Jan 2010</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></body></html>