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Date: 07 Jan 2009
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Subject:International Conference on Arabic Language Processing

Full Title: 3rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing
Short Title: CITALA'09

Date: 04-May-2009 - 05-May-2009
Location: Mohammadia School of Engineers-Rabat, Morocco
Contact Person: Abdelfettah Hamdani
Meeting Email: citala2009 at iera.ac.ma
Web Site: http://www.citala.org

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2009

Meeting Description:

Mohammadia School of Engineers(EMI) and the Institute for Studies and  
Research
on Arabization(IERA) are organizing the third edition of the  
International
Conference on Arabic Language Processing (CITALA'09). CITALA is the  
only regular
event on Arabic Language Processing in the Maghreb region.

Call for Papers

The aim of this Conference is to gather studies, achievements and  
experiences
from scholars working on Arabic language processing in order to map  
the progress
made in this field. A special session will also be organized to enable  
resource
mobilization and identification of partnerships for future collaborative
participator project cooperation. High level partner institutions will  
be
invited to network with participants.

Topics:
Communications (30 minutes, including question time), could address the
following Arabic Language Processing topics (non limitative list):
-Lexicon: databases including linguistic resources (phonological,  
morphological,
syntactic, and semantics)
-Design, use, standardization and normalization of linguistic  
resources (Arabic
corpora, Arabic Lexicon, Anthologies, etc.)
-Use of linguistic resources in Arabic NLP applications
-Automatic generation and parsing of morphology, syntax, semantics,  
pragmatics
and discourse.
-Evaluation and benchmarking of resources, applications and Arabic NLP  
products
-Resources for the evaluation of applications for the written and  
spoken Arabic
language
-Exploitation of Arabic NLP in Industrial applications
-Automatic Tagging of Arabic Texts
-Text Briefing
-Automatic Machine Translation
-Optical Character Recognition
-Documents Retrieval, information searching and retrieving, search  
engines, and
questions/answering systems
-Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for local, regional and
international activities, projects and collaborative participatory  
cooperation

Submission:
Authors are invited to submit papers using IEEE Standard template (to  
download
from the conference website).The submitted articles should not exceed  
10 pages.
Each paper will be evaluated based on originality, significance,  
technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted articles will be  
published in the
proceedings of this meeting and could be proposed for publication in  
an IEEE
Journal. Articles should be submitted in electronic MS Word format to  
both
following addresses: citala2009 at emi.ac.ma, citala2009 at iera.ac.ma.

By submitting a paper, author simplicitly agree that at least one of  
them will
register to the conference and present the paper.

Deadlines:
Paper submission: February 15, 2009
Notification of acceptation: March 27,2009
Final version submission: April 3, 2009
Conference: May 4-5, 2009

Additional Information:
Prof. Karim Bouzoubaa: karim.bouzoubaa at emi.ac.ma  Mohammadia School of  
Engineers
Avenue Ibn Sina B.P.765- Agdal Rabat, Morocco
Prof.Abdelfettah Hamdani: hamdani at iera.ac.ma  Institute for studies  
and Research
on Arabization Rabat-Institut, B-P 6216,Rabat,Morocco
Tél.:+21237687150 Tél.:+21237773005
Fax:+21237778853 Fax:+21237772065
www.emi.ac.ma
www.iera.ac.ma

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