Arabic-L:LING:Special Session on Arabic Natural Language Processing

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1) Subject:Special Session on Arabic Natural Language Processing

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Date: 17 Oct 2012
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Subject:Special Session on Arabic Natural Language Processing

A Special Session on
Arabic Natural Language Processing: Algorithms, Resources, Tools,
Techniques and Applications

In conjunction with the First International Conference on
Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA'13)
Sharjah, UAE, February 12 - 14, 2013
https://www2.aus.edu/conferences/iccspa/index.html

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Arabic language is the largest Semitic language which is still in
existence, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and
one of the six official languages of the United Nations (UN).
Traditionally, most research in the field of speech technology has
been conducted in very few languages such as English, French, Spanish
or Chinese. Recently, many researchers from Arab world and worldwide,
have been interested in Arabic Natural Language Processing
(NLP). Several improvements have been achieved for various language
processing components (e.g. morphological analysis, parsing, named
entities recognition, audio transcription, acoustic model, language
model, phonetic dictionaries, continuous speech recognition, etc),
which involved Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and
Colloquial Arabic. We invite submissions for this special session on
Arabic Natural Language Processing: Algorithms, Resources, Tools,
Techniques and Applications, as part of the First International
Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their
Applications (ICCSPA’13), Sharjah, UAE. The focus of this special
session is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new
directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding Arabic
language processing and their applications, evaluation methodologies
and tools, ongoing and planned activities. Algorithms, resources,
technologies and
 applications for processing text, speech and multimodalities are
encouraged. In addition, papers integrating speech and/or multimodal
with written resources are welcomed. The aim of this special session
is to bring together researchers with a generic interest on Arabic NLP
to raise awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to
identify some common themes.

We therefore welcome submissions on a range of topics of interest,
including but not limited to:

·         Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for Arabic
NLP interoperability.
·         Methodologies and tools for annotating Arabic NLP resources.
·         Methodologies and tools for the extraction and acquisition
of knowledge.
·         Issues in, and evaluation of, morphological analysers, PoS
taggers, and parsers.
·         Issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation.
·         Text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution.
·         Corpus query languages and tools.
·         Dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, ontologies, and knowledge
representation.
·         Terminology.
·         Arabic speech recognition and understanding.
·         Arabic acoustic and language models.
·         Arabic phonetic dictionaries and transcriptions.
·         Arabic Speech Synthesis.
·         Emotion recognition using Arabic speech and/or multimodal biometrics.
·         Speaker recognition and verification using Arabic speech
and/or multimodal biometrics.
·         Arabic language resources and corpora (spoken, written,
etc), and tools.
·         Integration between (multilingual) LRs, ontologies and
Semantic Web technologies.
·         Integration between (multilingual) LRs and multimedia technologies.
·         Metadata descriptions of LRs and metadata for semantic/content markup.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

The session solicits original, unpublished, and high-quality research
papers. The authors are invited to submit their contributions
formatted as IEEE double
columns. All submitted papers will be refereed by at least two
reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. All
accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceeding and will be included in IEEE
Xplore digital library. Selected papers from the ICCSPA'13 will be
published in one or
more special issues of reputed journals. Authors are kindly required
to follow the (ICCSPA'13) submission procedure with an email
notification to the session
organizers (m.abushariah at ju.edu.jo and sawalha.majdi at gmail.com)
including the paper ID and the paper title.

IMPORTANT DATES:

·         Deadline for paper submission: October 30, 2012
·         Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2012
·         Deadline for camera-ready submission: December 15, 2012
·         Conference date: February 12-14, 2013


SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS:

Dr. Mohammad A. M. Abushariah, Dr. Majdi Sawalha, and Dr. Bassam H. Hammo
Computer Information Systems Department,
King Abdullah II School for Information Technology,
The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
E-mail: m.abushariah at ju.edu.jo , sawalha.majdi at gmail.com , b.hammo at ju.edu.jo

Dr. Eric Atwell and Dr. Claire Brierley
I-AIBS Institute for Artificial intelligence and Biological Systems,
School of Computing,
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
E-mail: e.s.atwell at leeds.ac.uk , C.Brierley at leeds.ac.uk


SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT:
Contribute to building the Arabic NLP Language Library.  Researchers
are invited to submit their open-sources resources and tools with
their papers to make them widely available for Arabic NLP community.
The resources, tools, standards, annotation schemes will be available
(initially) through Arabic NLP group servers at the
University of Jordan http://nlp.ju.edu.jo.



Dr. Majdi Sawalha (On behalf of organizing committee)
Computer Information Systems Department,
King Abdullah II School for Information Technology,
The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/sawalha

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