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Date: 05 Jan 2013
From:Violetta Cavalli Sforza <V.CavalliSforza at aui.ma>
Subject:Arabic NLP at ACS/IEEE 2013

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

The“Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu language processing” track of the Eleventh
ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
(AICCSA 2013, http://aiccsa.aui.ma/), to be held in Ifrane, Morocco, on May
20-24, 2013, invites paper submissions on the aforementioned languages and
their variants.

AICCSAis a premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference, an
international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the
advances of computer systems and their applications.

AICCSA2013 will be held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, on
May 20-24, 2013. Ifrane is located in the Middle Atlas mountains, at
approximately 1600 m of elevation, surrounded by oak and cedar forests. It
is a bit over an hour away by car from the historical cities of Fes and
Meknes and approximately two and a half hours from the city of Rabat, the
capital of Morocco.

*MainTrack Topics*

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Morphology & POS tagging

·         Grammar and grammar formalisms

·         Parsing

·         Semantics

·         Coreference resolution

·         Ontologies and terminology

·         Resources and annotation

·         Machine translation

·         Information retrieval

·         Text summarization

·         Named entity recognition

·         Word sense disambiguation

·         Sentiment and text classification

·         Information & content extraction, text mining

·         Question answering

·          Deployment of NLP-based applications, software integration &
quality

·          Natural Language Generation

·          Speech recognition and synthesis

·          Character and handwriting recognition

·          Applications of NLP technology

*SubmissionInformation*

Allsubmissions are to be done electronically by the deadline specified
below via the conference main site. Please see the Submission page (under
construction) for specific instructions closer to the deadline.

Papers will be accepted based on their relevance, originality, importance
and clarity. Submissions should be written in English and formatted using
the IEEE template for Microsoft Word and A4 paper, available at:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html
 <http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html>
.

Pleaseinclude 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax
and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties
with electronic submission, please contact the track’s Vice Program
Co-Chairs, listed below. Papers must not be published or under
consideration to be published elsewhere.

Pleasemake sure to respect the blind review process by removing the
authors’ names and affiliations and not referencing previous work in ways
that reveal the authors’ identity. In addition, the name and contact
details of at least one of the authors should be indicated at submission
time. Further instructions for the camera-ready version of accepted papers
will be provided with acceptance notification.

Submittedpapers that were deemed to be of good quality, but could not be
accepted as regular papers, will be accepted as short papers.

Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may also be
submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted
abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to
doctoral research proposals and related research.

*Program Committee*

*Vice Program Co-Chairs: *

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, *Morocco*(
v.cavallisforza at aui.ma)
Ahmed Guessoum, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, *
Algeria*   ( aguessoum at usthb.dz)
**

*Committee Members: *
Hassina Aliane, Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information, *
 Algeria*
Fadoua Ataa Allah, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, *Morocco*
Yassine Benajiba, Thomson Reuters, *USA*
Jawad Berri, King Saud University, *KSA*
Siham Boulaknadel, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, *Morocco*
El Houssine Bouyakhf, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, *Morocco*
Karim Bouzoubaa, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, *Morocco*
Khaled Choukri, European Language Ressources Association, *France*
Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, *TheNetherlands*
Ossama Emam, IBM, *Egypt*
Hammou Fadili, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, *France*
Mohamed Fakir, Facult é des Sciences et Techniques, *Morocco*
Ali Farghaly, Cataphora Software Inc.
Nizar Habash, Columbia University, *USA *
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, *Jordan*
Abdelfettah Hamdani, Institut d’Etudes de Recherche pour l’Arabisation, *
 Morocco*
Muhammad Humayoun, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, * Pakistan*
Sarmad Hussain, University of Engineering and Technology, *Pakistan*
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, *USA*
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University, *Qatar*
Abdelhak Mouradi, École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse
des Systèmes, *Morocco*
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Foundation, *Qatar*
Ali Rachidi, Universit é Ibn Zohr, *Morocco*
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, *Egypt*
Salim Rami, Faculté Poly-disciplinaire de Safi, *Morocco*
Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, *Spain*
Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia, *Spain*
Nasredine Semmar, CEA LIST – LVIC, *France*
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, *UAE*
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Shahid Beheshti University, *Iran*
Otakar Smrz, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, *CzechRepublic*
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale (ENIM), *Morocco*
Noura Tigziri, Université Mouloud Mammeri, *Algeria*
Stephen Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute, *Qatar*
RachedZantout, Beirut Arab University, *Lebanon*

* *

*Important Dates*

Paper and Poster Submissions

February 22, 2013

Notification of acceptance

April 1, 2013

Camera ready copy due

April 19, 2013

Author Registration

April  19, 2013

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Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Science and Engineering
Al Akhawayn University
B.P. 1762, Avenue Hassan II
Ifrane 53000 - Morocco
Tel: + 212 35 86 2106
E-mail: V.CavalliSforza at aui.ma
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