27.3545, Calls: Arabic; Computational Linguistics; Writing Systems / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.3545, Calls: Arabic; Computational Linguistics; Writing Systems / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 11:16:44
From: Adrien Barbaresi [barbaresi at bbaw.de]
Subject: Arabic; Computational Linguistics; Writing Systems / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Writing Systems 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Language Family(ies): Arabic 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2016 

Call for Papers:

JLCL Volume 32 (2017), Issue 1: Special Issue - NLP for Perso-Arabic alphabets
- http://www.jlcl.org/index.php?modus=news
Upcoming special issue of the Journal of Language Technology and Computational
Linguistics on NLP for Arabic and languages mainly written using
Arabic/Perso-Arabic alphabets and their variants (e.g. Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi).

The journal publishes reports of original research related to the recognition,
understanding, production, coding and mining of speech and language.

Contributions from all of the related fields are welcomed in the form of
reports of theoretical or experimental studies, tutorials, reviews, and brief
correspondence pertaining to models and their implementation, or reports of
fundamental research leading to the improvement of such models.

Research topics of interest include:

Computational models of discourse and dialogue
Computational morphology
Corpus construction and evaluation
Information retrieval, extraction, and summarization
Language modeling
Lexicon building
Named Entity Recognition
Parsing techniques
Semantic analysis
Standards
Variants, dialects, and noisy text

Important dates:

The submission deadline is December 1st 2016 (notification of acceptance on
March 1st 2017)
The issue is expected to be published in the summer of 2017.

Editors:

Adrien Barbaresi (Austrian & Berlin-Brandenburg Academies of Sciences,
Germany)
Kais Haddar (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Germany)
Confirmed members of the reviewer board
Zeeshan Bhatti (University of Sindh, Pakistan)
Karim Bouzoubaa (Mohammed Vth University, Morocco)
Miriam Butt (University of Constance, Germany)
Mona Diab (George Washington University, USA)
Nadir Durrani (Arabic Language Technologies, Qatar)
Bilel Gargouri (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Constance, Germany)
Muhammad Imran (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Javed Ahmed Mahar (Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan)
Slim Mesfar (Manouba University, Tunisia)
Abdelwadood Mesleh (Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordania)
Charly Moerth (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Marwa Ragheb (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Mutee U. Rahman (Isra University, Pakistan)
Khaled Shaalan (British University in Dubai)
Sebastian Sulger (University of Constance, Germany)
Nadi Tomeh (University of Paris 13, France)
Wajdi Zaghouani (CMU Qatar)




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