<div dir="ltr">[Apologies if you receive this more than once]<br><br>#####################################################################<br> INFOS 2010: Special track on NLP and Knowledge Mining<br> LAST CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
#####################################################################<br><br>March 28 - 30, 2010, Cairo, Egypt<br><a href="http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/">http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/</a><div><br>Sponsored By<br><b>IEEE Computer Society<br>
</b><br>##################################################################<br># Papers Due: *** January 15, 2010 ***<br># <b>Conference proceedings will be indexed by IEEE Xplore</b><br>##################################################################<br>
<br>Because of its wide range of applications as well as its challenges,<br>NLP has become a very active research area. Subjects of interest<br>include basic research, technologies, applications and engineering,<br>automatic parsing and tagging, named entity recognition, word sense<br>
disambiguation, sentence understanding, grammar induction, machine<br>translation, information extraction, automatic question answering,<br>text summarization, and text mining. State-of-the-art NLP research<br>combines sophisticated and deep linguistic modeling and data analysis<br>
with innovative probabilistic and machine learning approaches.<br> <br>The goals of this track are to provide participants with an<br>opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of<br>computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all<br>
practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to<br>identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the<br>development of NLP resources and systems..<br><br>+++++++++++++++++++<br>Topics of Interest<br>
+++++++++++++++++++<br><br>We invite submissions in all NLP and knowledge mining related areas. Areas of interest include,<br>but are not limited to:<br><br>· Word Sense Disambiguation<br>· Named Entities Identification<br>
· Anaphora resolution<br>· Language Modeling<br>· Spoken Language Processing<br>· Speech Recognition and Language Models<br>· Text to Speech and Language Models<br>· Dialog Strategy and Technology<br>
· Natural Language Learning, Generation and Understanding<br>· Evaluation of Natural Language Systems<br>· Lexical, Semantic Resources and Corpora<br>· Corpora Linguistics<br>· Machine Translation<br>
· Information Retrieval<br>· Cross Language Information Retrieval<br>· Information Extraction<br>· Question Answering<br>· Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog<br>· Ontology Learning from Text<br>
· Text Categorization and Summarization<br>· Text Mining and Machine Learning<br>· Opinion Mining<br>· Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Text<br>· Language Knowledge Engineering<br>
· NLP Applications in E-Learning<br>· NLP Applications in E-Commerce<br>· NLP E-mail Filtering- Combinatorial Auctions<br><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>On-Line Submissions and Publication<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>High-quality papers in all NLP and Knowledge mining related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages. For submission details please visit: <a href="http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/submission.php">http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/submission.php</a><br>
<br>All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee<br>on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity.<br><br> * Electronic paper submission : January 15th, 2010<br> * Author notification: February 5th, 2010<br>
* Camera ready submission: February 15th, 2010<br> * Conference dates: March 28 - 30, 2010<br><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Track’s Program Committee<br>++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>· Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt<br>
· Fawaz Al-Anzi, Kuwait University, Kuwait<br>· Mansour Al-Ghamdi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia<br>· Ibrahim Al-Kharashi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia<br>
· Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria<br>· Mohamed Attia, RDI, Egypt<br>· Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia<br>· Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan<br>
· Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France<br>· Chris Cieri, LDC, USA<br>· Kareem Darwish, CIMC, Egypt<br>· Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA<br>· Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon, France<br>
· Ossama Emam, IBM Egypt<br>· Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA<br>· Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA<br>· Hany Hassan, IBM, Egypt<br>· Sattar Izwaini, Abu Dhabi University, UAE<br>· Mohamed Kamel, Univeristy of Waterloo, Canada<br>
· Mohamed Maamouri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA<br>· Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>· Petra Maier-Meyer, FAST, Germany<br>· Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Japan<br>
· Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK<br>· Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University , Netherlands<br>· Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens, Greece<br>· Ahmed Rafea, American University in Cairo, Egypt<br>
· Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt<br>· Horacio Rodrguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain<br>· Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain<br>· Doaa Samy, Cairo University, Egypt<br>
· Nasredine Semmar, CEA, France<br>· Khaled Shaalan, The British University, Dubai<br>· Otakar Smrz, Charles University, Czech Republic<br>· Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco<br>
· Andy Way, DCU, Ireland<br>· Imed Zitouni, IBM Research, USA<br> <br>*** Contact Information ***<br>Aly Fahmy (Track Chair)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:a.fahmy@fci-cu.edu.eg">a.fahmy@fci-cu.edu.eg</a><br><br>
Samhaa El-Beltagy (Track co-chair)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:samhaa@computer.org">samhaa@computer.org</a><br><br> </div></div>