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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Cambria Math',serif;color:black"></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">(</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">WANLP 2015</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Cambria Math',serif;color:black"></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Cambria Math',serif;color:black"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Cambria Math',serif;color:black"></span></b></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Including a Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Collocated with </span><span style="color:rgb(0,51,204)">ACL-IJCNLP 2015</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">, Beijing, China </span></font></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4">IMPORTANT DATES (PRELIMINARY)</font></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt">11 January 2015: First Call for Workshop Papers</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">14 May 2015: Workshop Paper Due Date</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">4 June 2015: Notification of Acceptance</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">21 June 2015: Camera-ready papers due</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">30 July 2015: Workshop Dates</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Workshop Website: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,51,204)"><a href="http://www" target="_blank">http://www</a>.</span><a href="http://arabic-nlp.net/wanlp" target="_blank">arabic-nlp.net/wanlp</a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION<br>
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There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the Arab World and in association with international
conferences. This workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.<br>
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We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc.</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="list-style-position:outside">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc.</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="list-style-position:outside">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed.
Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Submissions are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error
correction (details below).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">SHARED TASK<br>
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Following the success of the First Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction in the Arabic NLP Workshop 2014 (WANLP-2014, EMNLP, Doha), we will conduct the Second Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction as part of WANLP-2015. We designed this
task in the traditions of high profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as CONLL's grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013 and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR, among others. The task relies
on resources created under the Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of manually corrected Arabic text).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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More details will be provided later.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2 for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments. The paper needs to follow the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,51,204)">standard format of ACL 2015</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> conference.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Program Co-chairs<br>
</span></i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi<br>
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><i>Publication Co-chairs<br>
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<span style="color:black">Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar</span></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
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Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar<br>
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar <br>
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar<br>
Nizar Habash (advisor), New York University Abu Dhabi</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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