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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:
none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>* FIRST CALL FOR
PAPERS *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'> THIRD WORKSHOP ON<br>
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
August 26, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Machine Translation Summit XII<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><a href="http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3">http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for presentation at CAASL3,
being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought<span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL><span
dir=RTL></span> </span>together researchers working on the computer processing
of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari),
Pashto and Urdu, among others. <span style='color:black'>The usage of the
Arabic script and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain
computational issues that are common to these languages despite their being of
distinct language families, </span>such as right to left direction, encoding
variation, absence of capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree
of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.<span
style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first workshop,<span
dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL><span dir=RTL></span> </span></span><span
class=p-match1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:windowtext'>will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry,
and government developers, practitioners, and users<span dir=RTL></span><span
dir=RTL><span dir=RTL></span> </span>to share their research and experience
with a focus on machine translation. It also provides an opportunity to assess
the progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=p-match1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be found at <a
href="http://www.arabicscript.org">http://www.arabicscript.org</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>IMPORTANT DATES <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>WORKSHOP TOPICS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We
welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages.
However, preference would be given to papers that focus on Machine Translation
applications of Arabic script-based languages. The main themes of this workshop
include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=square>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Statistical
and rule-based machine translation <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Translation
aids<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Evaluation
methods and techniques of machine translation systems<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>MT of dialectal and conversational
language</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Computer-mediated communication (e.g.,
blogs, forums, chats)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Knowledge bases, corpora, and
development of resources for MT applications<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Speech-to-speech MT <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>MT combined with other technologies
(speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual
text categorization, multilingual text summarization, multilingual natural
language generation, etc.) <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Entity
extraction</span></span><span class=p-match1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Tokenization
and segmentation </span></span><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Speech
synthesis and recognition</span></span><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Text
to speech systems </span></span><span class=p-match1><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Semantic analysis</span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Papers
should not have been presented somewhere else or be under consideration for
publication elsewhere, and should not identify the author(s). They should
emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Each paper will be
anonymously reviewed by three members of the program committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Papers must be submitted in PDF format to <a
href="mailto:caasl3@arabicscript.org"><span style='color:windowtext'>caasl3@arabicscript.org</span></a>
by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers
should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s)
and paper’s title. Papers should not exceed 8 pages including references
and tables, and should follow the formatting guidelines posted at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>CONTACT INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>For further information, please visit the workshop
site at <a href="http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3</span></a>
or contact the organizing committee at <a href="mailto:caasl3@arabicscript.org"><span
style='color:windowtext'>caasl3@arabicscript.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Karine Megerdoomian, The Mitre Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jan
W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)<br>
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)<br>
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)<br>
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)<br>
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)<br>
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)<br>
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)<br>
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)<br>
Mona Diab (Columbia University)<br>
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)<br>
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)<br>
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)<br>
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)<br>
Hany Hassan (IBM)<br>
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)<br>
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)<br>
Martin Kay (Stanford University)<br>
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)<br>
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)<br>
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)<br>
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)<br>
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)<br>
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)<br>
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)<br>
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)<br>
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)<br>
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)<br>
Stephan Vogel (CMU)<br>
Imed Zitouni (IBM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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