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1) Subject:LREC 2004 Arabic Treebank Workshop

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Date: 29 Jan 2004
From:Petr Zemanek <petr.zemanek at ff.cuni.cz>
Subject:LREC 2004 Arabic Treebank Workshop

*** WORKSHOP REMINDER & NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE *** FEBRUARY 04, 2004
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LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop
May 24, 2004, 14:30-20:00
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

The LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop intends to bring together
people
from different areas of the Natural Language Processing community, who
are
either interested in the problem of multi-level linguistic description
of
Arabic, or concerned with the resources, tools and methods used
recently in
the study of this language.

Research Context

There has been a noticeable increase in the amount of Arabic-oriented
research in NLP in recent years. The conferences, workshops and symposia
include enterprises such as:

-       ACL 2001 Arabic Language Processing Workshop,
-       International Symposium on Processing of Arabic in Tunisia in
2002,
-       LREC 2002 Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation Workshop,
-       ACL 2002 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic
Languages,
-       MT Summit IX Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic
Languages
         in 2003.

The areas covered in the papers of these forums seem to describe
research
projects which, although diversified and scientifically important,
frequently do not present systematic and extensible descriptions of the
language that are also supported by resources and tools for their
management.
The LREC 2004 Arabic Treebanking Workshop would offer the opportunity to
present the on-going work and efforts in this respect, enhance
co-operation
with and receive feedback from colleagues in the community.

Tentative Schedule

There will be two major sessions in the course of the Workshop. One of
them
will be reserved for invited talks on the leading treebanking projects
in
Arabic, namely, the LDC Arabic Treebank and the Prague Arabic Dependency
Treebank, while the other session will be devoted to the regular
contributions, discussions and perspectives in the scope of the research
interest.

The invited talks will deliver overall and comprehensive reports on the
two
Arabic treebanking projects, giving details on their theoretical grounds
and general architecture, on the annotation process of the language data
and the utilization of the resources, as well as on software tools
involved
in the work and on related research, such as development of systems
based
on machine-learning techniques, etc. The talks will be accompanied by
presentations and demos of the following systems during the Workshop:

-       AraMorph, the morphological analyzer of Arabic
-       SelectPOS, the annotation tool for morphological disambiguation
-       Tree Editor, the LDC tool for phrase-structure tree annotation
-       TrEd, the Prague system for annotations of trees/graphs in
general
-       Netgraph, the search tool for linguistic research of treebanks
-       Conversion tool for transforming constituency trees to
dependency
         ones
-       Statistical parsers used in annotation by either of the teams
-       Arabic morphological tagger

Submission Requirements

We invite papers describing original approaches to the various aspects
of
Arabic language treebanking, and/or addressing research issues that the
treebanking projects might help improve. In particular, we strongly
invite
papers on constituency and dependency syntax, propositional theory,
tectogrammatical theory, valency, application to machine translation,
computational tools, algorithm implementations etc., as well as lexicons
and databases reusable in the description of the language.
Papers will be accepted as PDF or PostScript files conforming to the
style
guidelines of the main Conference, which will appear at the LREC 2004
web
site http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ at the end of January 2004.
Submissions and questions should be sent to Otakar Smrz
<smrz at ckl.mff.cuni.cz>, the secretary of the Program Committee.

Important Dates

The Workshop will be held on May 24, 2004, from 14:30 to 20:00 in Centro
Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. The time reserved for one regular
paper presentation will be up to 30 minutes.

First call for Workshop papers          December 09, 2003
Workshop paper submission deadline      February 04, 2004 *** NEW ***
Notification of acceptance              February 16, 2004
Final versions for the proceedings      March 01, 2004

Registration Information

The LREC 2004 half-day Workshop registration fee is 50 EURO for
Conference
participants and 85 EURO for the others. These fees will include a
coffee
break and the Proceedings of the Workshop.

Program Committee

Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Jan Hajic
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

Mohamed Maamouri, co-chair of the committee
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania

Otakar Smrz, co-chair of the committee
Center for Computational Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

Petr Zemanek
Institute of Comparative Linguistics
Charles University in Prague

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Petr Zemanek
Institute of Comparative Linguistics
Charles University, Prague

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