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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Fri 21 Feb 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">CFP deadline for LRE-Rel2 extended</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">21 Feb 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eric Atwell <<a href="mailto:E.S.Atwell@leeds.ac.uk" target="_blank">E.S.Atwell@leeds.ac.uk</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">CFP deadline for LRE-Rel2 extended</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Deadline EXTENDED to Wed 26/02/2014 for full paper submissions:</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">3rd Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts (LRE-Rel2)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">31st May 2014 (afternoon), Harpa Conference Center, Reykjavik, Iceland</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop website: </span><a href="http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel2.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/<u></u>arabic/lre-rel2.html</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">Final Call for Papers - deadline 26/02/2014:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">After a successful launch at LREC 2012, we are organising a second workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts hosted by LREC 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is an inclusive workshop title, aimed at researchers with a generic interest in religious texts to raise awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to identify some common themes. Our first workshop attracted a range of scholarship, particularly on Arabic and Islamic Studies, and this year we are keen to extend this range to canonical texts from other languages and religions - Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, and other - and, given the Icelandic venue, to iconic texts from historical religions such as The Prose Edda of Norse mythology. We are also keen to foster inter-faith corpus studies, tracing similarities as well as differences in religious texts, where this genre includes: the faith-defining religious canon; authoritative interpretations and commentary; sermons, liturgy, prayer!</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">s, poetry, and lyrics.</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">Workshop Attendance:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Prospective authors should note that attendance at the workshop is necessary for their paper to be published in the workshop proceedings, though for papers with multiple authors, only one author will be required to attend. Therefore, prospective authors are strongly encouraged to check the LREC website and other sources for information on visa restrictions, and likely travel and hotel costs.</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">Workshop Topics:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submissions are invited for (but not limited to) the following topics:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts and corpora from different religions;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• formulaic language and multi-word expressions in religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• suitability of modal and other logic types for knowledge representation and inference in religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• annotation and analysis of religious metaphor;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• genre analysis for religious texts;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• application in other disciplines (e.g. theology, classics, philosophy, literature) of computer-mediated methods for analysing religious texts.</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">Important Dates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">26.02.2014 Deadline for paper submissions</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">05.03.2014 Notification of acceptance</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">21.03.2014 Camera-ready copies due from authors</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">06.04.2014 LREC deadline for camera-ready copy of Workshop Proceedings</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">31.05.2014 LRE-Rel2 Workshop (afternoon session)</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">Submission of Papers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please submit your papers via the LRE-Rel2 submission page in LREC's START Manager. The URL for this is:</span><a href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/LRE-Rel2/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/<u></u>lrec2014/LRE-Rel2/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Authors should submit a full paper, not an abstract. They should also follow LREC guidelines for length of papers, and are advised to use the LREC template for paper submissions. This template will be published by LREC in due course. In the meantime, authors can use the LREC 2012 template: </span><a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Authors-Kit" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.lrec-conf.org/<u></u>lrec2012/?Authors-Kit</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">Request from LREC Organisers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"...When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc..."</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">LRE-Rel2 Organising Committee:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eric Atwell and Claire Brierley: Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="mailto:E.S.Atwell@leeds.ac.uk" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">E.S.Atwell@leeds.ac.uk</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">; </span><a href="mailto:C.Brierley@leeds.ac.uk" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">C.Brierley@leeds.ac.uk</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Majdi Sawalha and Bassam Hammo: Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, AMMAN 11942, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="mailto:sawalha.majdi@leeds.ac.uk" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">sawalha.majdi@leeds.ac.uk</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">LRE-Rel2 Programme Committee (provisional):</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Claire Brierley, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Majdi Sawalha, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bassam Hammo, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sane Yagi, Department of Linguistics, University of Jordan, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dag Haug, Department of Philosophy, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Moshe Koppel, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nils Reiter: Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Andrew Wilson, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Claudia Resch, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nadeem Obaid, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Muhammad A.M. Abushariah, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mortaza Rezaee, Islamic College, London, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Janet Watson, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">John Lee, Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong, (HK)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mohamed Menacer, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Deryle Lonsdale, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, US</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bob MacDonald, Research and Development, Anthony Macauley Associates, Canada</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kais Dukes, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Aida Mustapha, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Putra University, Malaysia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Liviu Dinu, Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Bucharest, Romania</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Behrooz Minaei, School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gurpreet Singh, Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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