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Date: 21 Oct 2012
From:Mohammad AbuShariah <M.AbuShariah at ju.edu.jo>
Subject:Arabic NLP Special Session, Sharjah Conference

On behalf of the organizing committee members, I would like to seek
research contributions to the special session onArabic Natural Language
Processing: Algorithms, Resources, Tools, Techniques and Applications,
which will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on
Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA'13),
Sharjah, UAE, February 12 - 14, 2013.

Further details are listed below for your action and perusal. We look
forward to receiving submissions from your kind self.

Should you have further enquiries, kindly do not hesitate to contact me.

Best Regards,


Dr. Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (On behalf of the organizing committee)
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<mailto:m.abushariah at ju.edu.jo> ,
m.abushariah at gmail.com<mailto:sawalha.majdi at gmail.com>

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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
<mailto:m.abushariah at ju.edu.jo> and sawalha.majdi at gmail.com<mailto:
sawalha.majdi at gmail.com>) including the paper ID and the paper title.

IMPORTANT DATES:


•         Deadline for paper submission: October 31, 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<mailto:m.abushariah at ju.edu.jo> ,
sawalha.majdi at gmail.com<mailto:sawalha.majdi at gmail.com> , b.hammo at ju.edu.jo
<mailto:sawalha.majdi at gmail.com>

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<mailto:e.s.atwell at leeds.ac.uk> ,
C.Brierley at leeds.ac.uk<mailto: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<
http://nlp.ju.edu.jo/> .

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