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1) Subject:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing  
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Date: 29 Apr 2008
From: "Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:IJCPOL special issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing CFP


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages  
(IJCPOL)
World Scientific http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol
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Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by over 250 million people, in an  
area
extending from the Arabian Gulf in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the
west. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.  
It is
also the language in which some of the world's greatest works of  
literature,
science, and history have been written.

Arabic is a strongly structured and highly derivational language. Arabic
language processing requires the treatment of the language  
constituents at
all levels. Each level requires extensive study and exploitation of the
associated linguistic characteristics. Over the last few years, Arabic
natural language processing (ANLP) has been gaining increasing  
importance,
and has found a wide range of applications including: machine  
translation,
information extraction, and tutoring systems. These applications require
developing innovative approaches and techniques for natural language
analysis, natural language generation, and linguistic resources.

Various forums have been dedicated to ANLP:
• Special track on Natural Language Processing, The  International
Conference on Informatics and Systems (NLP-INFOS 2008), Cairo Univ.,  
Egypt.
• Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and  
local
languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, LREC, 2008
• Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, workshop  
series
(04, 07).
• International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools  
(NEMLAR
2004), Cairo Egypt,

This special issue of the International Journal of Computer Processing  
of
Oriental Languages is intended to present the state-of-the-art in  
research
on Arabic natural language processing, Arabic computational linguistics,
applied Arabic linguistics and related areas. This call is intended to  
be as
broad as possible. We solicit original research papers on topics  
including,
but not limited to:
• Linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks,  
etc.)
• Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
• Part of speech tagging
• Morphological analysis and generation
• Shallow and deep parsing
• Machine translation
• Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
• Semantic analysis
• Information extraction and retrieval
• Question answering
• Text clustering, and classification
• Text summarization
• Text and web content  mining
• Named entity recognition
• Colloquial-based language processing

>>>> Important Dates <<<<<
• Submissions due for review: 15 Jan 2009
• Notification of 1st decision: 30 April 2009
• Revisions due: 30 May 2009
• Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2009
• Final version submitted: 15 July 2009
• Issue publication: 2010

>>>>> Submission Guidelines <<<<<
Submissions should be 3,000 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure  
or
table as 200 words) and should follow the journal's style and  
presentation
guidelines (see http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/mkt/guidelines.shtml).
References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript,  
access
the Journal online submission system at
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcpol/editorial/submitpaper.shtml.  In the
message to editors, please state clearly that the paper is submitted  
to the
special issue on Arabic NLP.  An electronic version of the paper  
should also
be submitted directly to the Guest Editor by e-mail at the same time.

               * * * * *

For further information, contact Guest Editor  Prof. Khaled Shaalan
- (Fellow) School of Informatics University of Edinburgh, UK
- Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai
- Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University:
k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg.

For a PDF version of this Call for papers upload
http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf

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Regards,
Khaled
________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Khaled Shaalan
Computer Science Dept.
Faculty of Computers & Information
Cairo Univ.

5 Ahmed Zewel St.,
Orman, Dokki,
Giza
12613 Egypt

Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg
Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com

Honorary Fellow
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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