<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">Dear colleagues,</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended. The deadline is now </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: red">29 March 2009</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">********************************************************************<BR> *Last Call for abstracts & Final deadline extension*<BR>NOOJ'09 : Conference & Workshop<BR>08-10 June 2009, Tozeur , Tunisia * *<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><A href="http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: purple">www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj</SPAN></A></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New
Roman">.<BR> ********************************************************************<BR>*Important Dates*</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">· Abstract submission: </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: red">Mars 29, 2009</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"> (FINAL deadline extension)</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">· Notification of Acceptance : May 04, 2009</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">· Conference : 08-10 June, 2009<BR> ********************************************************************</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>NOOJ 2009 will be organized by the research laboratory </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><A href="http://fr.mc278.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=MIR@CL" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>MIR@CL</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">(Multimedia InfoRmation & Advanced Computing Laboratory), Sfax<BR>University in collaboration with the "Semio-linguistic, the Didactic<BR>and computer science Laboratory", Franche-Comté University and the<BR>"Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Claude Ledoux".</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">NOOJ 2009 will be held in Tozeur city-Tunisia, 450 Km in the south-west of Tunis .</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The conference intends to:</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> - give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics and in<BR> Computational Linguistics the opportunity to meet and share their<BR> experience as developers, researchers and teachers;</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> - present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP<BR> applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities,<BR> as well as its future developments;</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> - offer researchers and graduate students two tutorials (one basic<BR> and one advanced) to help them parse corpora and build NLP<BR> applications using NooJ.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> - Present NooJ's Arabic resources to all researchers in Arabic<BR> studies : linguists, computational linguists as well as all<BR> researchers who work with/on Arabic corpora.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">NooJ is a freeware, linguistic engineering development environment<BR>used to formalize various types of textual phenomena (orthography,<BR>lexical and productive morphology, local, structural and<BR>transformational syntax) using a large gamut of computational devices<BR>(from Finite-State Automata to Augmented Recursive Transition<BR>Networks). NooJ includes tools to construct, test, debug, maintain and<BR>accumulate large sets of linguistic resources, and can apply them to<BR>large texts.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Modules for a dozen languages are already available for free download:<BR>Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, English, French,<BR>Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. A dozen of<BR>other modules are under construction.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> ******************************************************<BR> *Topics of Interest*</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Suggested topics include but are not limited to:</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">· Syntactic analysis</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">· Lexical analysis</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">· Linguistic resources<BR>· Dictionary</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">*Submission*<BR>We invite the submission of papers until the March 29, 2009 either in<BR>English or in French. The abstracts should contain the title of the<BR>article, the name, the institution, the surface mail and the<BR>electronic address of each co-author. The abstracts should not exceed<BR>one page, and should be submitted from the workshop web site:<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><A href="http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: purple">www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">All proposals will be reviewed by the scientific committee. You will<BR>be given notice about the acceptance of the proposals no later than<BR>May 04, 2009.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">For more information, please contact:<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><A href="mailto:nooj2009@miracl.rnu.tn">nooj2009@miracl.rnu.tn</A> or <A href="http://fr.mc278.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=abdelmajid.benhamadou@isimsf.rnu.tn" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN lang=EN-GB>abdelmajid.benhamadou@isimsf.rnu.tn</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black">.</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">*Program Committee***</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* *Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou* (MIRACL, ISIM-Sfax , Tunisia )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* *Max Silberztein* ( University of Franche-Comté , France )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Anaid Donabedian (INALCO, Paris)</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Belinda Maia ( University of Porto , Portugal )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Bilel Gargouri (MIRACL, FSEG-Sfax , Tunisia )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Denis Le Pesant (University Paris 10)</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Dusko Vitas ( University of Belgrade , Serbia )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Gisele Chevalier ( University of Moncton , Canada )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Kais Haddar (MIRACL, FSS-Sfax , Tunisia )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Kimmo Koskenniemi ( University of Helsinki , Finland )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Krzysztof Bogacki ( University of Warshaw , Poland )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Mireille Piot (University Stendhal 3, Grenoble )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Odile Piton (University Paris 1, France)</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Peter Machonis (Intnl University of Florida , USA )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Philippe Schepens ( University of Franche-Comté , France )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Simona Vietri (University Salerne , Italy )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Xavier Blanco (University Autonomous Barcelona , Spain )</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><BR><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">*Organization Committee***</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Héla FEHRI, FS Sfax , Tunisia</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Bilel GARGOURI, FSEG Sfax , Tunisia</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Kais HADDAR, FS Sfax , Tunisia</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Slim MESFAR, ISI Tunis , Tunisia</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">* Moncef TEMANNI, ISI Tunis,Tunisia</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">* Inès ZALILA, FS Sfax , Tunisia</SPAN></DIV></td></tr></table><br>