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Date: 27 Jun 2008
From:"Bilel GARGOURI" <bilel.gargouri at fsegs.rnu.tn>
Subject:Arabic Natural Language Processing Session

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Arabic Natural Language Processing Session  (ANLP-ACIT’2008)
at the International Arab Conference on Information Technology  
(ACIT'2008)
December 16-18, 2008  Hammamet, Tunisia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.acit2k.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Session Description

Arabic language is spoken in more than 20 countries. It is the native  
language of over 200 million people.
Arabic is considered among the languages that are difficult to process  
automatically.  Nevertheless, the necessity of Arabic NLP systems is  
being essential especially with the Internet explosion. Thus, the need  
to help Arabic people to have access to information and technologies  
in their mother tongues is being of great importance.
The aim of this session is to bring together researchers and  
industrials that are actively involved in Arabic language processing  
and give them an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and  
implementations of computational systems; to discuss the common  
challenges faced by all practitioners; and to assess the state of the  
art in the field. In addition, one of the aims of this session is to  
identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the  
development of Arabic NLP systems.
This session includes but is not limited to the following topics:
* Part of speech tagging
* Morphological analysis and generation
* Shallow and deep parsing
* Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
* Semantic analysis
* Information retrieval
* Information extraction
* Question answering
* Text clustering and classification
* Text summarization
* Text and web content  mining
* Named entity recognition

Session chairs : Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Bilel Gargouri & Abdelmajid  
Ben Hamadou(LARIS-MIRACL, University of Sfax, Tunisia) ACIT Keynote  
speakers:
Prof. Ali Farghaly (Oracle, USA)Keynote Speech Title: Arabic language  
processing: Overview, current applications and leader projects Prof.  
Abdel Belaïd (LORIA, Nancy- France)Keynote Speech Title: Arabic  
Language Recognition Richard Thomas Watson (University of  
Georgia)Keynote Speech Title: The Business of Open Source  Submission:
Submissions must be in English. Authors are invited to submit a paper  
of 8 pages (in Postscript or PDF) to :Bilel Gargouri  (bilel.gargouri at fsegs.rnu.tn 
)With a CC to :Lamia Hadrich Belguith (l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn) and  (bilel.gargouri at gmail.com 
)

Instructions for preparing the manuscript are available on :
http://www.acit2k.org/sub2008.html?ACIT2008/final.html

Papers will be evaluated at least by two reviewers for originality,  
significance, clarity, and contribution. Submitted Papers must not  
have been previously published or currently  submitted for  
publication  elsewhere.


Important dates:
Paper Submission: July 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2008
Camera-ready submission & registration: October 1, 2008
Conference period: December 16-18, 2008

Program Committee:
·        Lamia Hadrich Belguith (LARIS-MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)
·        Bilel Gargouri (MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)
·        Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (MIRACL/ISIMS, Tunisie)
·        Ali Farghali (Oracle, USA)
·        Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)
·        Malek Boualem (France Telecom R&D, France)
·        Philippe Blache (LPL-Université de Provence, France)
·        Khaled Chaalene (Université du Caire, Egypte)
·        Joseph Dichy (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France)
·        Farid Meziane (Salford University, Manchester)
·        Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA)
·        Mariem Ellouze (MIRACL/ECS, Tunisie)
·        Hatem Ghorbel (CGC- Lausanne, Suisse)
·        Maher Jaoua (MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)
·        Chafik Aloulou (LARIS-MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)
·        Selim Mesfar  (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
·        Kais Haddar (MIRACL/FSS, Tunisie)

Contact :
For any additional information, Please contact Bilel Gargouri (bilel.gargouri at fsegs.rnu.tn 
)

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