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Date: 22 Feb 2007
From:Imed Zitouni <izitouni at us.ibm.com>
Subject:ACL 2007 Workshop on Semitic Languages

Please forward to interested colleagues.


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2007 Workshop o
and Resource
March 200
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The ACL 2007 Workshop on "Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages:
Common Issues and Resources" will be held in conjunction with the 45th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and  
will
take place on June 28th in Prague, Czech Republic.

* SCOPE AND TOPIC
spoken by a large
number of native speakers (around 300 million). However, Semitic  
languages
as a whole are still understudied. The most prominent members of this
family
are Arabic and its dialects, Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, Maltese and  
Syriac.
Their shared ancestry is apparent through pervasive cognate sharing,  
a rich

and productive pattern-based morphology, and similar syntactic
constructions.
An increasing body of computational linguistics work is starting to  
appear
for both Arabic and Hebrew. Arabic alone, as the largest member of the
Semitic
family, has been receiving much attention lately via dedicated workshops
and
conferences. Tools and resources for other Semitic languages are being
created
at a slower rate.  While corpora and some tools are necessarily  
language-
specific, ideally there should be more cross-fertilization among  
research
and
development efforts for different Semitic languages.

The proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers working on  
Semitic

Languages to share and discuss common issues and approaches to the
processing
of these languages. We invite submissions on all Semitic languages,
including
work describing recent state-of-the-art NLP systems and work leveraging
resource and tool creation for the Semitic language family. We  
especially
welcome submissions on work that crosses individual language  
boundaries and

heightens awareness amongst Semitic-language researchers of shared
challenges
and common solutions. The workshop will also include a meeting of the
Special
Interest Group on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (the ACL
SIG).
Examples of topics include, but are not limited to
approaches to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
   pragmatics of Semitic language
languages (e.g. POS taggers, parsers, etc.)
* Computational resources for Semitic language
studies of Semitic language
(Semitic or other) to create
   resources and tools for Semitic language
unique/specific phenomena in Semitic language
applications for Semitic languages such as:
   - speech recognition,
   - machine translation,
   - summarization,
   - language generation,
   - speech synthesis,
   - co-reference resolution,
   - mention detection,
   - information retrieval,
   - spoken dialog applications
   - etc

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished  
work in
the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should not exceed 8  
pages and
should be formatted using the ACL 2007 style files, which are  
available at:

http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/
The reviewing of the papers will be blind and the papers should not  
include

the authors' names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed  
by at

least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be
published
in the workshop proceedings.  Papers should be submitted  
electronically, no

later than March 11, 2007. The only accepted format for submitted  
papers is

Adobe PDF.

* IMPORTANT DATES

March 11  --  Submission deadline for workshop paper
Notification of acceptanc
--  Workshop held at ACL 200
Cavalli-Sforza (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - violetta at cs.cmu.ed
Zitouni (IBM Research, USA) - izitouni at us.ibm.co
Mahdy Abdou (Cairo University, Egypt)
Yaser Al-Onaizan (IBM, USA)
Ann Bies (LDC/University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Malek Boualem (France Telecom, France)
Tim Buckwalter (LDC/University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Achraf Chalabi (Sakhr Software Co., Egypt)
Anne DeRoeck (Open University, UK.)
Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA)
Joseph Dichy (University of Lyon 2, France)
Abdelhamid ElJihad (Institut d'Etudes et Recherches sur l'Arabisation,
Morocco)
Martha W. Evens (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Ali Farghaly (Oracle, USA)
Alexander Fraser (USC/ISI, USA)
Andrew Freeman (Washington University, USA)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA)
Alon Itai (Technion/Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Mohamed F. Noamany (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Uzzi Ornan  (Technion, Israel)
Slim Ouni (LORIA/University of Nancy 2, France)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)
Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Abdelhadi Soudi (Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)
Mustafa Yaseen (Amman University, Jordan)
Abdellah Yousfi (Institut d'Etudes et Recherches sur l'Arabisation,
Morocco)

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