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<div><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:14px">Dear all, due to several requests, we decided the following:</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">(1) We extend the submission deadline</font><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"> to <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">July 28</span></span> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">11:59pm</span></span> (UTC/GMT -11 hours).</span></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>This includes both the main workshop papers and the shared task descriptions.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:14px">(2) We extend the page length of the main workshop papers to be up to 9 pages + any number of reference pages.</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The shared task descriptions are still up to 4 pages with 2 additional pages of references.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Regards, </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Workshop Organizers</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Last Call for Papers and Participation</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> Apologies for multiple postings</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> Please distribute to colleagues</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">=======================================================</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Last Call for Papers and Participation</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Workshop date: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Saturday October 25, 2014</span></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Paper submission deadline: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">July 26, 2014</span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Workshop Website: <a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html</a> </font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Shared Task Website: <a href="http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html" target="_blank">http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html</a> </font></div>
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</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Arab World and in association with international conferences. This</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">the following: </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> modeling, etc.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"> technologies, social media, etc.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.</font></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px"><font face="Verdana"> </font></span></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Submissions</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">error correction (see link to Shared Task Website above).</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Paper submission deadline: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">July 26, 2014</span></span> => <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">July 28</span></span> <span style="line-height:18px"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">11:59pm</span></span> (UTC/GMT -11 hours)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Author notification: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">August 26, 2014</span></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Camera Ready: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">September 15, 2014</span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Workshop: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">October 25, 2014</span></span> </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">ORGANIZERS</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Program Co-chairs</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Nizar Habash, Columbia University</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Publication Co-chairs</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Website Committee</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Noura Farra, Columbia University </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Shared Task Committee</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</font></div><div>
<font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar </font></div><div>
<font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Program Committee Members </font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar</font></div><div>
<font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille, France</font></div><div>
<font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Farhad<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Karine<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Khalil Sima’an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</font></div><div>
<font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ossama Emam, IBM, USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Otakar Smrž, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size:14px">Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco</font></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<div><font size="1">Research Associate</font></div><div><font size="1">Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City</font></div><div><font size="1">PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar</font></div><div><font size="1">Office: CMU-Q 1210, Phone: (+974) 4454-8646</font></div>
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