<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Sat 13 Sep 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[To post messages to the list, send them to </span><a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">arabic-l@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">]</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">listserv@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> with first line reading:</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">           unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Directory---------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Call for Participation - EMNLP 2014 Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Messages----------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">13 Sep 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Wajdi Zaghouani <<a href="mailto:wajdiz@gmail.com" target="_blank">wajdiz@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Call for Participation - EMNLP 2014 Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop</span><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">====================Call for Participation=================</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">===</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop collocated with EMNLP 2014,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Doha, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Workshop Website: </span><a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">List of Accepted Papers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><a href="http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/acceptedpapers.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px" target="_blank">http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/acceptedpapers.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">==============================</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">=========================</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the Arab World and in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">association with international conferences. This workshop follows in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">footsteps of previous efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">and discuss their ongoing work.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">We invited submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">following:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">modeling, etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">technologies, social media, etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Associated with the workshop was a shared task on Arabic text error</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">correction.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">OVERALL SCHEDULE (October 25, 2014)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">9:00-10:30 Session #1 Corpora 10:30-11:00 Break / Poster setup 11:00-12:00</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Shared Task Session</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">11:00-11:30 Task description and summary of results</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">11:30-11:45 1-minute summary for shared task participants</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">11:45-12:15 Panel / Group Discussion 12:15-12:30 Poster Teaser 1-minute</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">poster summaries 12:30-14:00 Lunch / Poster Session (Main + Shared Task</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">papers) 14:00-15:30 Session #2 Text Mining 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-17:10</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Session #3 Translation & Transliteration 17:10-18:00 Workshop Group</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Discussion</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">ACCEPTED PAPERS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Main Workshop Papers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Al-Bayan: An Arabic Question Answering System for the Holy Quran Heba</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Abdelnasser, Maha Ragab, Reham Mohamed, Alaa Mohamed, Bassant Farouk, Nagwa</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330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"font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Arabizi Detection and Conversion to Arabic Kareem Darwish</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">A Framework for Creating an MWE Computational Lexical Resource for</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Dialectal Arabic Abdelati Hawwari, Mohammed Attia and Mona Diab</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Domain and Dialect Adaptation for Machine Translation into Egyptian Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Serena Jeblee, Weston Feely, Houda Bouamor, Alon Lavie, Nizar Habash and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Kemal Oflazer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Semantic Query Expansion for Arabic Information Retrieval Ashraf Y.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mahgoub, Mohsen A. Rashwan, Hazem Rafaat, Mohamed A. Zahran and Magda B.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Fayek</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Arabic Native Language Identification Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Using Twitter to Collect a Multi-Dialectal Corpus of Arabic Hamdy Mubarak</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">and Kareem Darwish</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Arabic Twitter Feeds Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">AIDArabic A Named-Entity Disambiguation Framework for Arabic Text Mohamed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Amir Yosef, Marc Spaniol and Gerhard Weikum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Named Entity Recognition System for Dialectal Arabic Ayah Zirikly and Mona</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Diab</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Shared Task Papers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">The First shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic Behrang</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mohit, Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Wajdi Zaghouani and Ossama Obeid</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">GWU-HASP: Hybrid Arabic Spelling and Punctuation Corrector Mona Diab,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mohammed Attia and Mohamed Al-Badrashiny</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Arabic Spelling Correction using Supervised Learning Youssef Hassan,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mohamed Aly and Amir Atiya</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">CMUQ at The 2014 Automatic Arabic Error Correction Shared Task Serena</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Jeblee, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani and Kemal Oflazer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">TECHLIMED system description for the Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Correction Djamel Mostefa, Omar Asbayou and Ramzi Abbes</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Automatic Correction of Arabic Text: a Cascaded Approach Hamdy Mubarak and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Kareem Darwish</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Fast and Robust Arabic Error Correction System Michael Nawar and Moheb</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ragheb</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">The Columbia System in the QALB-2014 Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander, Noura Farra and Wael Salloum</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">A Pipeline Approach to Supervised Automatic Error Correction Nadi Tomeh,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander and Joseph Le Roux</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Autocorrection of arabic common errors for large text corpus Taha Zerrouki,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Khaled Alhowaity and Amar Balla</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">ORGANIZERS Program Co-chairs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Nizar Habash, Columbia University Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Institute</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Publication Co-chairs</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Website Committee</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Noura Farra, Columbia University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Shared Task Committee</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Program Committee Members</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Iran Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Khalil Sima’an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France Ossama Emam, IBM, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Otakar Smrz, D??m-e D?am Language Institute, Czech Republic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"> Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">------------------------------</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">-----------------------</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Wajdi Zaghouani</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">​Senior ​</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Research Associate</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Office: CMU-Q 1210, Phone: (+974) 4454-8646</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Email: </span><a href="mailto:wajdiz@qatar.cmu.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px" target="_blank">wajdiz@qatar.cmu.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px">Web: </span><a href="http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px" target="_blank">www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333330154419px"><br style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: <span style="font-size:13.3333339691162px">13 Sep 2014</span></div></div>