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Date: 11 Feb 2011
From: reposted from CORPORA
Subject: Computational Morphology Challenge involving Arabic

Toward Morphology and beyond

2011 Volume 52 Number 2

SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE TAL JOURNAL

Deadline for submission: 27 February 2011

Authors intending to submit a paper are encouraged to contact the guest
editors of the issue straight away:

* Nabil Hathout, Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr et
* Fiammetta Namer, Fiammetta.Namer at univ-nancy2.fr

GUEST EDITORS:

Nabil Hathout (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS & Toulouse2) and Fiammetta Namer (ATILF,
CNRS & Nancy-Université)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Computational morphology has become over the years one of the
Computational Linguistics subfields, with an annual competition, Morpho
Challenge and a recurring workshop, SigMorPhon. The objectives of the
Morpho Challenge evaluation campaigns are to compare the results and
algorithms of various morphological systems on a task of morpheme
segmentation and analysis. The competition  involves five languages :
English, German, Finnish, Turkish and Arabic. The researches presented
at the SigMorPhon workshops deal on the whole with phonology and morphology.

Besides these objectives, systems centered on morphology produce other
information, of a linguistic nature, in the course of the processes they
perform.  And these results are particularly relevant to the special
issue we propose. The issue aims at exploring the situation of
morphology with respect to its established interfaces such as:

* phonology,
* syntax,
* semantics,
* lexicon,

but also its connections with cognitive processes and language acquisition.

Therefore, submitted papers should not be limited to the presentation of
results of competitions. Rather, the themes of this issue include all
studies dealing computationally with any complex matter related to
derivation or compounding. Original models of inflectional morphology
are also welcome. The studies can be concerned with the morphology of
the general language, but also with that of specialty domains languages.
Studies may have to do with French as well as with any other language in
the world; the described systems may be monolingual or multilingual.

Papers on specific applications in NLP and linguistics are also welcome,
including:

* machine translation
* information retrieval
* terminology
* language typology
* dialectology
* evolution of languages and phylogenetics

All approaches are welcome, including rule-based methods, analogy-based
ones, or mixed approaches. They can involve unsupervised,
semi-supervised or supervised machine learning.

THE JOURNAL

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing)
is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French
Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS
(National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic
mode of publication, with printing on demand. This affects in no way its
reviewing and selection process.

PRACTICAL ISSUES:

Contributions (25 pages maximum, PDF format) must be sent by e-mail to
the addresses below:
Nabil.Hathout at univ-tlse2.fr
Fiammetta.Namer at univ-nancy2.fr

Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal
http://www.atala.org/English-style-files

IMPORTANT DATES:

* 15 October 2010: Call for papers
* 20 February 2011: Statement of intent to submit (detailed summary, 1 page)
* 27 February 2011: Submission deadline
* 06 May 2011: First decision of the editorial board*
* 06 June 2011: Revised version of the accepted papers
* 11 July 2011: Final decision of the editorial board
* 01 September 2011: Final version of the accepted papers
* end of 2011: Publication

SPECIFIC EDITORIAL BOARD:

Delphine Bernhard (LIMSI CNRS)
Olivier Bonami (LLF & Paris 4)
Gille Boyé (ERSSAB, Bordeaux 3)
Basilio Calderone (Modyco, Paris 10)
Bruno Cartoni (Département de linguistique, Université de Genève)
Georgette Dal (STL, Lille 3)
Walter Daelemans (CLiPS Research Center, Antwerp)
John Goldsmith (University of Chicago)
Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld)
Harald Hammarstrom (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Mikko Kurimo (Aalto University)
Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar)
Vito Pirrelli (CNR, Pisa)
Royal Skousen (Brigham Young University)
Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)
Nicolas Stroppa (Google, Zurich)
Ludovic Tanguy (CLLE-ERSS, Toulouse 2)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Comcast, Washington D.C.)



-- 
Nabil Hathout
CLLE-ERSS (UMR 5263) CNRS & Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail
Maison de la Recherche.  F-31058 Toulouse cedex 9
Tél. (+33) 561-503-603   Fax (+33) 561-504-677

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