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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Great initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I think a mailing list could be very helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Are you suggesting a VOIP software? There are also some Online-Conference
Software available but we need to find a freely available one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Beset,<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Mahmoud EL-Haj<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>School Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Essex University, Wivenhoe Park, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tel +44 (0) 751 720 9226<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> corpora-bounces@uib.no
[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hamed Al-Suhli<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> corpora@uib.no; linguist@linguistlist.org; elsnet-arabic@elsnet.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] Proposal for initiating a global non
continentalArabic Language Academy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<br>
<br>
The initiative is:<br>
For all professionals and researchers interested at Arabic Language
Standardization, Studies, Computational, Or Terminology. No ethnic or religious
restrictions.<br>
For now at least, the initiative is aimed at the Quranic Standard Arabic, but
still under discussion.<br>
<br>
moving to the next step:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>We need to list all those whom support the idea
and will attend the initial online conference, in centralized online
public place. As many of those are linguistic with very small computer
skills I suggest wordpress at <a href="http://e3rab.com">e3rab.com</a>,
any better suggestion?<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Promoting the Idea at the places we expect
supporter.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Discussing the conference agenda and supervising
items, is wordpress enough or mail list?<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What is the best software to hold the online
meeting, some Arabic countries had problems with fast internet connection?<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Abdulbaqi Sharaf <<a
href="mailto:A.M.Sharaf08@leeds.ac.uk">A.M.Sharaf08@leeds.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I join my voice with others in welcoming this idea! it seems
lots of interested out there, so can we move to next pragmatic steps...<br>
<br>
best,<br>
Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf<br>
PhD Student<br>
Language Technologies Group<br>
School of Computing<br>
University of Leeds<br>
UK<br>
________________________________________<br>
From: <a href="mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no">corpora-bounces@uib.no</a> [<a
href="mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no">corpora-bounces@uib.no</a>] On Behalf Of
Eslam Amgad [<a href="mailto:Eslam.Amgad@bibalex.org">Eslam.Amgad@bibalex.org</a>]<br>
Sent: 17 November 2009 09:06<br>
To: Bayan Shawar; 'Waleed Oransa'; 'Hamed Al-Suhli'; MahmoudEl-Haj<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Cc: '<a
href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>'<br>
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Proposal for initiating a global non
continentalArabic Language Academy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Hamed,<br>
<br>
It's a genius idea :).<br>
I am pleased to be a member with you...<br>
<br>
Good Luck.<br>
<br>
<br>
Eslam Amgad Abdel Salam<br>
Computational Linguist,<br>
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, ICT Sector,<br>
ISIS, ISAUC .<br>
P.O. Box 138, Ashshatby,<br>
Alexandria 21526, ARE.<br>
Tel. : +2034839999, Ext.: 2726<br>
Fax: +2034820405<br>
Cellular: +20101000725<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:Eslam.Amgad@bibalex.org">Eslam.Amgad@bibalex.org</a><br>
Web site: <a href="http://www.bibalex.org" target="_blank">http://www.bibalex.org</a><br>
<br>
"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. "<br>
Max Weinreich<br>
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<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>
Corpora mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" target="_blank">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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-- <br>
Hamed Al-Suhli<br>
<a href="http://e3rab.com">http://e3rab.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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