[Corpora-List] LREC 2012 Workshop 1st.CFP LRE-Rel: Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts

[Claire Brierley]

[apologies for multiple postings]

LRE-Rel: Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts
LREC 2012 pre-conference workshop 22 May 2012 (morning)
Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite submissions for the first workshop on: Language Resources  
and Evalution for Religious Texts. The focus of this workshop is the  
application of computer-supported and Text Analytics techniques to  
religious texts ranging from: the faith-defining religious canon;  
authoritative interpretations and commentary; sermons; liturgy;  
prayers; poetry; and lyrics. We see this as an inclusive and  
cross-disciplinary topic, and the workshop aims to bring together  
researchers with a generic interest in religious texts to raise  
awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to identify  
some common themes.

We therefore welcome submissions on a range of topics, including but  
not limited to:

•	analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation  
styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts;
•	formulaic language and multi-word expressions in religious texts;
•	suitability of modal and other logic types for knowledge  
representation and inference in religious texts;
•	issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts;
•	text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious texts;
•	corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora;
•	dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts;
•	measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts;
•	(new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious texts;
•	annotation and analysis of religious metaphor;
•	genre analysis for religious texts;
•	application in other disciplines (e.g. theology, classics,  
philosophy, literature) of computer-supported methods for analysing  
religious texts.

Important Dates
13.02.2012		Deadline for paper submissions
27.02.2012		Notification of acceptance
09.03.2012		Camera-ready copies due
22.05.2012		Workshop

Submissions
Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to  
be announced on the conference website:  
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/) and should be submitted either as  
a Word document or a .pdf file (preferably both) via the START  
conference manager for our workshop:  
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/LRE-Rel2012/

Papers will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee.  
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and  
possibly via special issue of an appropriate journal.

This year, 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. For further information on this new initiative,  
please refer to: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/LRE-Map-2012

Workshop Organisers and Co-chairs, with contact persons identified via  
email address

Abdul Malik Al-Salman: King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Eric Atwell: University of Leeds, UK
Claire Brierley: University of Leeds, UK scscb at leeds.ac.uk
Azzeddine Mazroui: Mohammed First University, Morocco
Majdi Sawalha: University of Jordan sawalha.majdi at gmail.com
Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf: University of Leeds, UK
Bayan Abu Shawar:  Arab Open University, Jordan

Programme Committee

Nawal Alhelwal: Arabic Department, Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman  
University, Saudi Arabia
Qasem Al-Radaideh: Computer Information Systems, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Abdul Malik Al-Salman: Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud  
University, Saudi Arabia
Eric Atwell: School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Amna Basharat: Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology,  
FAST-NU, Pakistan
James Dickins: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds, UK
Kais Dukes: School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Mahmoud El-Haj: Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,  
University of Essex, UK
Nizar Habash: Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia  
University, US
Salwa Hamada: Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Bassam Hasan Hammo: Information Systems, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Dag Haug: Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University  
of Oslo, Norway
Moshe Koppel: Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Rohana Mahmud: Computer Science and Information Technology, University  
of Malaya, Malaysia
Azzeddine Mazroui: Mathematics and Computer Science, Mohammed 1st  
University, Morocco
Tony McEnery: English Language and Linguistics, University of Lancaster, UK
Aida Mustapha: Computer Science and Information Technology, University  
of Putra, Malaysia
Mohamadou Nassourou: Computer Philology and Modern German Literature,  
University of Würzburg, Germany
Nils Reiter: Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg  
University, Germany
Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf: School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Bayan Abu Shawar: Information Technology and Computing, Arab Open  
University, Jordan
Andrew Wilson: Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK
Nagwa Younis: English Department, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Wajdi Zaghouani: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, US

Further Information

If you have questions, please consult the workshop website at:  
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html

Alternatively, contact: Claire Brierley scscb at leeds.ac.uk or Majdi  
Sawalha sawalha.majdi at gmail.com

Dr. Claire Brierley (on behalf of the organising committee)
Senior Research Fellow
Computing
University of Leeds, UK

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