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1) Subject: Deadline Extension and Paper Length Change for Arabic Natural
Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014

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Date: 26 Jul 2014
From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz at gmail.com>
Subject: Deadline Extension and Paper Length Change for Arabic Natural
Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014

 Dear all, due to several requests, we decided the following:

(1) We extend the submission deadline to July 28 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11
hours).
 This includes both the main workshop papers and the shared task
descriptions.

(2) We extend the page length of the main workshop papers to be up to 9
pages + any number of reference pages.
The shared task descriptions are still up to 4 pages with 2 additional
pages of references.

Regards,
Workshop Organizers

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Last Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

      Apologies for multiple postings
      Please distribute to colleagues

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Last Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014

Workshop Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html
Shared Task Website:
http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).  Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences. This
workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a
forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.
 Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to
the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions
are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.
Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text
error correction (see link to Shared Task Website above).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014 => July 28 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11
hours)
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop: October 25, 2014

ORGANIZERS
Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University

Program Committee Members

Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco
Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya
Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt
Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexis Nasr,  University of Marseille, France
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA
Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon
Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA
Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France
Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Khalil Sima’an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria
Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France
Ossama Emam, IBM, USA
Otakar Smrž, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France
Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt
Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran
Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA
Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

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Wajdi Zaghouani
Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City
PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar
Office: CMU-Q 1210, Phone: (+974) 4454-8646
Email: wajdiz at qatar.cmu.edu
Web: www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/

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