Arabic-L:LING:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages

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1) Subject:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script- 
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:"Megerdoomian, Karine" <karine at mitre.org>
Subject:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script- 
based Languages

* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

                      THIRD WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

The Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational  
Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for  
presentation at CAASL3, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought together researchers  
working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages  
such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto and Urdu, among  
others. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic  
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common  
to these languages despite their being of distinct language families,  
such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of  
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity  
due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first  
workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia,  
industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share  
their research and experience with a focus on machine translation.  It  
also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made  
since the first workshop in 2004.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can  
be found at http://www.arabicscript.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based  
languages. However, preference would be given to papers that focus on  
Machine Translation applications of Arabic script-based languages. The  
main themes of this workshop include:

	• Statistical and rule-based machine translation
	• Translation aids
	• Evaluation methods and techniques of  machine translation systems
	• MT of dialectal and conversational language
	• Computer-mediated communication (e.g., blogs, forums, chats)
	• Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources for MT  
applications
	• Speech-to-speech MT
	• MT combined with other technologies (speech translation, cross- 
language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization,  
multilingual text summarization, multilingual natural language  
generation, etc.)
	• Entity extraction
	• Tokenization and segmentation
	• Speech synthesis and recognition
	• Text to speech systems
	• Semantic analysis

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the  
program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to caasl3 at arabicscript.org by  
midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers  
should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the  
author(s) and paper’s title. Papers should not exceed 8 pages  
including references and tables, and should follow the formatting  
guidelines posted at

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, please visit the workshop site at http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 
  or contact the organizing committee at caasl3 at arabicscript.org.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian,  The Mitre Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Hany Hassan (IBM)
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Stephan Vogel (CMU)
Imed Zitouni (IBM)


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