<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Fri 11 Feb 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Computational Morphology Challenge involving Arabic<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 11 Feb 2011<br>From: reposted from CORPORA<br>Subject: Computational Morphology Challenge involving Arabic<br><br>Toward Morphology and beyond<br><br>2011 Volume 52 Number 2<br><br>SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE TAL JOURNAL<br><br>Deadline for submission: 27 February 2011<br><br>Authors intending to submit a paper are encouraged to contact the guest<br>editors of the issue straight away:<br><br>* Nabil Hathout, <a href="mailto:Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr">Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr</a> et<br>* Fiammetta Namer, <a href="mailto:Fiammetta.Namer@univ-nancy2.fr">Fiammetta.Namer@univ-nancy2.fr</a><br><br>GUEST EDITORS:<br><br>Nabil Hathout (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS & Toulouse2) and Fiammetta Namer (ATILF,<br>CNRS & Nancy-Université)<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS:<br><br>Computational morphology has become over the years one of the<br>Computational Linguistics subfields, with an annual competition, Morpho<br>Challenge and a recurring workshop, SigMorPhon. The objectives of the<br>Morpho Challenge evaluation campaigns are to compare the results and<br>algorithms of various morphological systems on a task of morpheme<br>segmentation and analysis. The competition involves five languages :<br>English, German, Finnish, Turkish and Arabic. The researches presented<br>at the SigMorPhon workshops deal on the whole with phonology and morphology.<br><br>Besides these objectives, systems centered on morphology produce other<br>information, of a linguistic nature, in the course of the processes they<br>perform. And these results are particularly relevant to the special<br>issue we propose. The issue aims at exploring the situation of<br>morphology with respect to its established interfaces such as:<br><br>* phonology,<br>* syntax,<br>* semantics,<br>* lexicon,<br><br>but also its connections with cognitive processes and language acquisition.<br><br>Therefore, submitted papers should not be limited to the presentation of<br>results of competitions. Rather, the themes of this issue include all<br>studies dealing computationally with any complex matter related to<br>derivation or compounding. Original models of inflectional morphology<br>are also welcome. The studies can be concerned with the morphology of<br>the general language, but also with that of specialty domains languages.<br>Studies may have to do with French as well as with any other language in<br>the world; the described systems may be monolingual or multilingual.<br><br>Papers on specific applications in NLP and linguistics are also welcome,<br>including:<br><br>* machine translation<br>* information retrieval<br>* terminology<br>* language typology<br>* dialectology<br>* evolution of languages and phylogenetics<br><br>All approaches are welcome, including rule-based methods, analogy-based<br>ones, or mixed approaches. They can involve unsupervised,<br>semi-supervised or supervised machine learning.<br><br>THE JOURNAL<br><br>TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing)<br>is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French<br>Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS<br>(National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic<br>mode of publication, with printing on demand. This affects in no way its<br>reviewing and selection process.<br><br>PRACTICAL ISSUES:<br><br>Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) must be sent by e-mail to<br>the addresses below:<br><a href="mailto:Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr">Nabil.Hathout@univ-tlse2.fr</a><br><a href="mailto:Fiammetta.Namer@univ-nancy2.fr">Fiammetta.Namer@univ-nancy2.fr</a><br><br>Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal<br><a href="http://www.atala.org/English-style-files">http://www.atala.org/English-style-files</a><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES:<br><br>* 15 October 2010: Call for papers<br>* 20 February 2011: Statement of intent to submit (detailed summary, 1 page)<br>* 27 February 2011: Submission deadline<br>* 06 May 2011: First decision of the editorial board*<br>* 06 June 2011: Revised version of the accepted papers<br>* 11 July 2011: Final decision of the editorial board<br>* 01 September 2011: Final version of the accepted papers<br>* end of 2011: Publication<br><br>SPECIFIC EDITORIAL BOARD:<br><br>Delphine Bernhard (LIMSI CNRS)<br>Olivier Bonami (LLF & Paris 4)<br>Gille Boyé (ERSSAB, Bordeaux 3)<br>Basilio Calderone (Modyco, Paris 10)<br>Bruno Cartoni (Département de linguistique, Université de Genève)<br>Georgette Dal (STL, Lille 3)<br>Walter Daelemans (CLiPS Research Center, Antwerp)<br>John Goldsmith (University of Chicago)<br>Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld)<br>Harald Hammarstrom (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Max Planck<br>Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)<br>Mikko Kurimo (Aalto University)<br>Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)<br>Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar)<br>Vito Pirrelli (CNR, Pisa)<br>Royal Skousen (Brigham Young University)<br>Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)<br>Nicolas Stroppa (Google, Zurich)<br>Ludovic Tanguy (CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2)<br>Evelyne Tzoukermann (Comcast, Washington D.C.)<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Nabil Hathout<br>CLLE-ERSS (UMR 5263) CNRS & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail<br>Maison de la Recherche. 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