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1)<br>Date: 12 Jan 2013<br>From:reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject:Arabic Language Processing Track of the 11th ACS/IEEE<br><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Full Title: Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu Language Processing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Date: 20-May-2013 - 24-May-2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Location: Ifrane, Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Contact Person: Violetta Cavalli-Sforza</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Meeting Email: </span><a href="mailto:v.cavallisforza@aui.ma" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">v.cavallisforza@aui.ma</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Web Site: </span><a href="http://aiccsa.aui.ma/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://aiccsa.aui.ma/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call Deadline: 22-Feb-2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Meeting Description:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The ‘Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu Language Processing’ track of the 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2013,</span><a href="http://aiccsa.aui.ma/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://aiccsa.aui.ma/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">), to be held in Ifrane, Morocco, on May 20-24, 2013, focuses on computational treatment of Arabic and its dialects, Arabic-script languages such as Farsi and Urdu, and variants of the Amazigh language. The actual days and duration of the track will depend on the number of submissions accepted.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call for Papers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite paper submissions on the aforementioned languages and their variants.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Morphology & POS tagging</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Grammar and grammar formalisms</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Parsing</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Semantics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Coreference resolution</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Ontologies and terminology</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Resources and annotation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Machine translation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Information retrieval</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Text summarization</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Named entity recognition</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Word sense disambiguation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Sentiment and text classification</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Information & content extraction, text mining</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Question answering</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Deployment of NLP-based applications, software integration & quality</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Natural Language Generation</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Speech recognition and synthesis</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Character and handwriting recognition</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Applications of NLP technology</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All submissions are to be done electronically by the deadline via the conference main site (</span><a href="http://aiccsa.aui.ma/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://aiccsa.aui.ma/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">). Please see the Submission page closer to the deadline for specific instructions (it is still under construction).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and email address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. For questions and issues regarding submission, contact the track Vice Program Co-Chairs:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (</span><a href="mailto:v.cavallisforza@aui.ma" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">v.cavallisforza@aui.ma</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ahmed Guessoum (</span><a href="mailto:aguessoum@usthb.dz" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">aguessoum@usthb.dz</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please make 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><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submitted papers that were deemed to be of good quality, but could not be accepted as regular papers, will be accepted as short papers. 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><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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