Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Language Resources Conference

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1) Subject: Arabic Language Resources Conference

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Date:  15 Jan 2002
From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux at elda.fr> reposted from CORPORA
Subject: Arabic Language Resources Conference

***First announcement and Call for Papers***

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Arabic Language Resources (LR) and Evaluation:
	Status and Prospects

A Post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2002

	Las Palmas - Canary Islands (Spain)
		1st June 2002

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More details at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html

Taking place on 1st June, after the main conference (29-30-31 MAY 2002),
this post-conference workshop should add value to the issues addressed
during the conference.
It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic written
language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context,
and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as
well as on the availability of LR, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products
and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common
view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing.

We expect to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms
to move towards solutions, such as sharing of resources, tools, standards,
sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of
current best
practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc.

By bringing together players in the Arabic NLP field, we target the
definition of a
first broadly supported Roadmap for Arabic LR, i.e. a broadly supported view on
the longer, medium and shorter term needs and priorities. This would help the
community to identify new opportunities and possible synergies.

The submissions should address some of the LREC issues that are specific and
of paramount importance to the Arabic resources and evaluation; some of these
issues are:

- Issues in the design, construction and use of Arabic Language Resources (LR);
- Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access,
distribution, use of Arabic LR;
- Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information
extraction,
information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces,
translation, summarisation,
www services, etc.);
- Industrial LR requirements and community's response;
- Industrial production and/or use of LR;
- Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR;
- Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking
and evaluation
for written and spoken language processing ;
- Evaluation of products and applications, benchmarking;
- Local, regional, and international activities and projects;
- Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and
international cooperation.

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

It will be a full-day workshop. The workshop is not intended to be a mini-
conference, but as a real workshop aiming at concrete results that
should clarify the
situation of Arabic with respect to Language Resources and Evaluation.
Sessions will include introductory speeches, invited talks, a small
number of refereed presentations, a panel session, etc.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be in English, Abstracts for workshop contributions should not
exceed two A4 pages (excluding references). An additional title page
should state:
the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail
address, as well as postal
address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submissions are to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF format, to
choukri at elda.fr, by 11th February 2002.
Abstracts will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee.

Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be
sent to authors after
notification of acceptance.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission deadline (receipt of abstracts): 11th February 2002
- Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2002
- Camera-ready final version for workshop proceedings due: 12th April 2002
- Workshop date: 1st June 2002

TIME AND LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will take place on 1st June, following the main LREC
2002 Conference,
in the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

The registration fee for the workshop is:

If you are also attending LREC: 90 EURO
If you are not attending LREC: 140 EURO

All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings.

INVITATION LETTER

If you need a visa to travel to Spain for the workshop and/or for the
conference, please
send an email to choukri at elda.fr

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE URLs
http://www.lrec-conf.org

CONTACT POINT

Khalid CHOUKRI
choukri at elda.fr
ELRA CEO
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
Postal Mail: 55 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris France

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, Paris, France
Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2 university, Lyon, France
Steven Krauwer, ELSNET and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mustafa Yassen, Amman University; Jordan; myaseen at cbj.gov.jo

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (tentative)

Abdelhadi Soudi; ENIM, Morocco; asoudi at enim.ac.ma
Abdelhak Mouradi; ENSIAS, Morocco; mouradi at ensias.ac.ma, abmouradi at hotmail.com
Abdelkader Fassi-Fehri; IRA, morocco; fassi at atlasnet.net.ma
Achraf Chalabi ; Sakhr; Egypt; ac at sakhr.com
André Jaccarini; Université d'Aix, France; jaccarini at mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Bassam Haddad; Amman University; Jordan; bh at go.com.jo
Chafic Mokbel; University of Balamand, Lebanon; chafic.mokbel at balamand.edu.lb
Everhard Ditters; University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; e.ditters at let.kun.nl
Fathi Debili;CELLMA ENS LSH Lyon, France; Fathi.Debili at ehess.fr
Jean Senellart ;SYSTRAN, France; senellart at systran.fr
John Makhoul ; BBN Technologies, GTE Corp., USA; makhoul at bbn.com
Ken Beesley; Ken.Beesley at xrce.xerox.com
Malek Boualem; FTRD/DMI/LAN, France; malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr
Mohamed Hassoun; ENSIB, Lyon, France; hassoun at enssib.fr
Mohamed Maamouri; LDC, Pen University, USA.
Mohsen Rashwan; RDI, Egypt; mrashwan at rdi-eg.com
Ossama Emam; IBM, Egypt; emam at eg.ibm.com
Paul Roochnick; paul at apptek.com
Salem Ghazali; IRSIT, Tunisia; Salem.ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
Salim Roukos; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; roukos at us.ibm.com
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza; San Francisco State University, USA; vcs at sfsu.edu

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