Call for papers

Ali Farghaly alifarghaly at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 3 09:49:10 UTC 2009







 

INFOS 2010 

The 7th
International Conference on Informatics and Systems

                                                            Cairo University

 

                             Faculty
of Computers and Information 

         www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2010/

 

28 – 30 March, 2010

Cairo, EGYPT

 

Special Track 

On

Natural Language
Processing and Knowledge Mining

Natural language processing (NLP) allows computers to
process and understand human languages and because of its wide range of
applications as well as its challenges, has become a very active research area.
The field covers basic research, technologies, applications and engineering. It
addresses areas such as automatic parsing and tagging, named entity
recognition, word sense disambiguation, sentence understanding, grammar
induction, machine translation, information extraction, automatic question
answering, text summarization, and text mining. State-of-the-art NLP research
combines sophisticated and deep linguistic modeling and data analysis with
innovative probabilistic and machine learning approaches.

The goals of this track are to provide participants with an
opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational
systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to
assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for
future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems.

Topics

The
following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track: 

· 
Word Sense Disambiguation

· 
Named Entities Identification

· 
Anaphora resolution

· 
Statistical vs. Linguistic Approaches 

· 
Language Modeling 

· 
Spoken Language Processing 

· 
Speech Recognition and Language Models

· 
Text to Speech and Language Models

· 
Dialog Strategy and Technology 

· 
Natural Language Learning, Generation and Understanding

· 
Evaluation of Natural Language Systems 

· 
Lexical, Semantic Resources and Corpora 

· 
Corpora Linguistics

· 
Semantic Web 

· 
Machine Translation

· 
Information Retrieval

· 
Cross Language Information Retrieval

· 
Information Extraction

· 
Question Answering

· 
Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog

· 
Ontology Learning from Text

· 
Text Categorization and Summarization

· 
Text Mining and Machine Learning

· 
Opinion Mining

· 
Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Text

· 
 Machine Learning

· 
Language Knowledge Engineering

· 
 NLP Applications in E-Learning

· 
 NLP Applications in E-Commerce

· 
 NLP E-mail Filtering 

· 
 Other Applications



Important Dates:

 

Full Paper submission due:   30
 November 2009 

Notification of acceptance:   1
   February 2010 

Camera ready
submissions:   15
 February 2010





To submit your paper please log into http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/authorlogin.php

 

Program Committee

 

Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale,
Morocco 

Ahmed Rafea, American University in Cairo, Egypt 

Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA 

Andy Way, DCU, Ireland 

Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan 

Chris Cieri, LDC, USA 

Doaa Samy, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain 

Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK 

Fawaz Al-Anzi, Kuwait University, Kuwait 

Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt 

Hany Hassan, IBM, Egypt 

Horacio Rodrguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain 

Ibrahim Al-Kharashi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi
Arabia 

Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon2, France 

Kareem Darwish, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center, Egypt 

Khaled Shaalan, The British University, Dubai 

Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France 

Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax,
Tunisia 

Mansour Al-Ghamdi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia


Mohamed Attia, RDI, Egypt 

Mohamed Kamel, Univeristy of Waterloo, Canada 

Mohamed Maamouri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA 

Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt 

Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA 

Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA 

Ossama Emam, IBM Egypt 

Otakar Smrz, Charles University, Czech Republic 

Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University , Netherlands 

Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain 

Sattar Izwaini, Abu Dhabi University, UAE 

Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens, Greece 

Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Japan 

 

Track Chair

Prof. Dr. Aly Fahmy

Faculty
of Computers and Information, Cairo
 University

 

Track Co-Chair

Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy

Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University

 

For
further information: 

Dr.
Samhaa El-Beltagy, samhaa at computer.org

 

 

 




      



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