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1)<br>Date: 05 Jan 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Violetta Cavalli Sforza <<a href="mailto:V.CavalliSforza@aui.ma" target="_blank">V.CavalliSforza@aui.ma</a>></span><br>
Subject:Arabic NLP at ACS/IEEE 2013<br>
<br><div align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></div><p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The“Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu language processing” track of the Eleventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2013, </span><a href="http://aiccsa.aui.ma/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://aiccsa.aui.ma/</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">), to be held in Ifrane, Morocco, on May 20-24, 2013, invites paper submissions on the aforementioned languages and their variants.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">AICCSAis a premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference, an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances of computer systems and their applications.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">AICCSA2013 will be held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, on May 20-24, 2013. Ifrane is located in the Middle Atlas mountains, at approximately 1600 m of elevation, surrounded by oak and cedar forests. It is a bit over an hour away by car from the historical cities of Fes and Meknes and approximately two and a half hours from the city of Rabat, the capital of Morocco.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">MainTrack Topics</span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Morphology & POS tagging</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Grammar and grammar formalisms</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Parsing</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Semantics</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Coreference resolution</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Ontologies and terminology</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Resources and annotation</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Machine translation</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Information retrieval</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Text summarization</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Named entity recognition</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Word sense disambiguation</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Sentiment and text classification</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Information & content extraction, text mining</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Question answering</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Deployment of NLP-based applications, software integration & quality</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Natural Language Generation</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Speech recognition and synthesis</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Character and handwriting recognition</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.75in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Applications of NLP technology</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">SubmissionInformation</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Allsubmissions are to be done electronically by the deadline specified below via the conference main site. Please see the Submission page (under construction) for specific instructions closer to the deadline.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Papers will be accepted based on their relevance, originality, importance and clarity. Submissions should be written in English and formatted using the IEEE template for Microsoft Word and A4 paper, available at: </span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:blue">http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html</span> </a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Pleaseinclude 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact the track’s Vice Program Co-Chairs, listed below. Papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Pleasemake sure to respect the blind review process by removing the authors’ names and affiliations and not referencing previous work in ways that reveal the authors’ identity. In addition, the name and contact details of at least one of the authors should be indicated at submission time. Further instructions for the camera-ready version of accepted papers will be provided with acceptance notification.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Submittedpapers that were deemed to be of good quality, but could not be accepted as regular papers, will be accepted as short papers.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may also be submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to doctoral research proposals and related research.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Program Committee</span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<strong>Vice Program Co-Chairs: </strong></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University,</span> <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b>Morocco</b>(<a href="mailto:v.cavallisforza@aui.ma" target="_blank">v.cavallisforza@aui.ma</a>) <br>
Ahmed Guessoum, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, <b>Algeria</b> </span>(<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <a href="mailto:aguessoum@usthb.dz" target="_blank">aguessoum@usthb.dz</a>)<br>
</span><strong><span style="font-size:6pt;background-image:none;background-repeat:repeat repeat"><font color="#333333"></font></span></strong></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong>Committee Members: </strong><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
Hassina Aliane, Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information, <b> Algeria</b><br>Fadoua Ataa Allah, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, <b>Morocco</b><br>Yassine Benajiba, Thomson Reuters, <b>USA</b><br>Jawad Berri, King Saud University, <b>KSA</b><br>
Siham Boulaknadel, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, <b>Morocco</b><br>El Houssine Bouyakhf, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, <b>Morocco</b><br>Karim Bouzoubaa, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, <b>Morocco</b><br>Khaled Choukri, European Language Ressources Association, <b>France</b><br>
Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, <b>TheNetherlands</b><br>Ossama Emam, IBM, <b>Egypt</b><br>Hammou Fadili, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, <b>France</b><br>Mohamed Fakir, Facult é des Sciences et Techniques, <b>Morocco</b><br>
Ali Farghaly, Cataphora Software Inc.<br>Nizar Habash, Columbia University, <b>USA </b><br>Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, <b>Jordan</b><br>Abdelfettah Hamdani, Institut d’Etudes de Recherche pour l’Arabisation, <b> Morocco</b><br>
Muhammad Humayoun, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, <b> Pakistan</b><br>Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering and Technology, <b>Pakistan</b><br>Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, <b>USA</b><br>Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University, <b>Qatar</b><br>
Abdelhak Mouradi, École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes, <b>Morocco</b><br>Preslav Nakov, Qatar Foundation, <b>Qatar</b><br>Ali Rachidi, Universit é Ibn Zohr, <b>Morocco</b><br>Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, <b>Egypt</b><br>
Salim Rami, Faculté Poly-disciplinaire de Safi, <b>Morocco</b><br>Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, <b>Spain</b><br>Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia, <b>Spain</b><br>Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST – LVIC, <b>France</b><br>
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, <b>UAE</b><br>Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Shahid Beheshti University, <b>Iran</b><br>Otakar Smrz, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, <b>CzechRepublic</b><br>Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale (ENIM), <b>Morocco</b><br>
Noura Tigziri, Université Mouloud Mammeri, <b>Algeria</b><br>Stephen Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute, <b>Qatar</b></span></p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">RachedZantout, Beirut Arab University, <b>Lebanon</b></span><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:none;background-repeat:repeat repeat"><font color="#333333"> </font></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:6pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="631" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;width:472.95pt;border:1pt solid windowtext">
<tbody><tr><td style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Paper and Poster Submissions</span></p></td><td width="353" style="width:264.75pt;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt">
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">February 22, 2013</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Notification of acceptance</span></p>
</td><td width="353" style="width:264.75pt;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">April 1, 2013</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt">
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Camera ready copy due</span></p></td><td width="353" style="width:264.75pt;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">April 19, 2013</span></p>
</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Author Registration</span></p></td><td width="353" style="width:264.75pt;border:1pt solid windowtext;padding:2.25pt">
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">April 19, 2013</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">--------------------------------------------------------<br>
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor of Computer Science<br>School of Science and Engineering<br>Al Akhawayn University<br>B.P. 1762, Avenue Hassan II<br>Ifrane 53000 - Morocco<br>Tel: + 212 35 86 2106<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:V.CavalliSforza@aui.ma" target="_blank">V.CavalliSforza@aui.ma</a></span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 05 Jan 2013<br></div>