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Information Processing Special Session (<a href="http://www.ibima.org/Maroc2008/aip.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ibima.org/Maroc2008/aip.html</span></a>)
at the 9th IBIMA Conference, <span style=""> </span>4-6 January
2006, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Marrakech</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">,
 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Morocco</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></p>

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for Papers</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><u>Session
Description</u></i></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">The use of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) is spreading across the world. For many
years, the English Language was dominating all aspects of ICT systems that span
from their development to their use. However, in the last few years many
nations have felt the need to use their own language to spread the use of ICT
among their populations and communities and also in some situations to protect
their language and culture. This is certainly true for the Arab world where
there are many initiatives to advance research, development and arabisation of
ICT systems. This sessions aims at bringing together researchers and developers
interested in topics that include but not limited to:</span></p>

<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Developing
     culturally and linguistically aware Information Systems for tha Arab
     world.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Choice of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">info</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">
rmation
     systems development methodologies for the Arab world.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Standardising Arabic
     Information Processing Vocabulary</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Building</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">
      of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Arabic Ontologies</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">,
     taxonomies and dictionaries.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Arabic Information
     extraction systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Arabic
     Web-development</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Machine translation
     systems for the Arabic Language</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Arabic natural
     language processing</span></li></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Papers will be evaluated for originality,
significance, clarity, and contribution. It is IBIMA policy to send complete
papers to two reviewers for full blind peer review and to send a summary of
review back to the author(s). Short papers/abstracts will be reviewed by
reviewer and/or the editor. All review comments and suggestions should be addressed
in the final submission. Submitted</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Please send your manuscript, indicating the
session name to <a href="mailto:f.meziane@salford.ac.uk">f.meziane@salford.ac.uk</a></span></p>

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