Arabic-L:LING:ALS 20 Call for Papers

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1) Subject:ALS 20 Call for Papers

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Date: 21 Jun  2005
From:mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu
Subject:ALS 20 Call for Papers

20­th Arabic Linguistics Symposium
Western Michigan University
March 3-5 2006

The Arabic Linguistics Society and Western Michigan University  
announce the 20th Arabic Linguistics Symposium to be held at Western  
Michigan University, Kalamazoo Michigan, March 3-5, 2006.

Papers are invited on topics that deal with theoretic and applied  
issues of Arabic Linguistics. Research in the following areas of  
Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology,  
morphology, syntax, semantics), applied linguistics,  
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical  
linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, etc.

In addition to the main session there will be two special sessions:
Special Session I
Automatic Semantic Ambiguity Resolution in MSA and Dialectal Arabic
Special Session II
Arabic machine translation and voice recognition

Invited Speakers
Abbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Stuart Davis (Indiana University)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Mushira Eid (University of Utah)
Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan)
Mohammad Mohammad (University of Texas at Austin)
Devin Stewart (Emory University)
Bushra Zawaydeh (BBN Technologies & University of Pennsylvania)

Persons interested in presenting papers are requested to submit a one- 
page abstract giving the title of the paper, a brief statement of the  
topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic will be developed  
(the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be presented).  
Authors are requested
to be as specific as possible in describing their topics. Abstracts  
should be submitted
by e-mail to mustafa.mughazy at wmich.edu or regular mail to

Arabic Linguistics Symposium
Department of Foreign Languages
Western Michigan University
410 Sprau Tower
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338

Email submissions should be in PDF format. Names are not to appear on  
the abstracts. Instead, name, title, address, and phone number should  
be in the body of the email message. For mail
submissions a 3x5 card with the above information should be enclosed.

Twenty minutes will be allowed for each presentation.

Registration: Before February 1, 2006: 30 for students and 40 for Non- 
students.
After February 1, 2006: 40 for students and 50 for non-students.
Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: November 15, 2005.
Notification: January 1, 2006.


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