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1) Subject:  Call for Participation - EMNLP 2014 Arabic Natural Language
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Date: 13 Sep 2014
From:  Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz at gmail.com>
Subject:  Call for Participation - EMNLP 2014 Arabic Natural Language
Processing Workshop

====================Call for Participation====================

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

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014

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

List of Accepted Papers:
http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/acceptedpapers.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 invited 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.

Associated with the workshop was a shared task on Arabic text error
correction.

OVERALL SCHEDULE (October 25, 2014)

9:00-10:30 Session #1 Corpora 10:30-11:00 Break / Poster setup 11:00-12:00
Shared Task Session

11:00-11:30 Task description and summary of results

11:30-11:45 1-minute summary for shared task participants

11:45-12:15 Panel / Group Discussion 12:15-12:30 Poster Teaser 1-minute
poster summaries 12:30-14:00 Lunch / Poster Session (Main + Shared Task
papers) 14:00-15:30 Session #2 Text Mining 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-17:10
Session #3 Translation & Transliteration 17:10-18:00 Workshop Group
Discussion

ACCEPTED PAPERS

Main Workshop Papers

Al-Bayan: An Arabic Question Answering System for the Holy Quran Heba
Abdelnasser, Maha Ragab, Reham Mohamed, Alaa Mohamed, Bassant Farouk, Nagwa
El-Makky and Marwan Torki

Annotating corpus data for a constructional analysis of motion verbs in
Modern Standard Arabic Dana Abdulrahim

Building a Corpus for Palestinian Arabic: a Preliminary Study Diyam Akra,
Nizar Habash, Mustafa Jarrar and Nasser Zalmout

Combining strategies for tagging and parsing Arabic Maytham Alabbas and
Allan Ramsay

The International Corpus of Arabic: Compilation, Analysis and Evaluation
Sameh Alansary

Uniform Word Segmentation Improves Dialectal Arabic to English Machine
Translation Kamla Al-Mannai, Hassan Sajjad, Alaa Khader, Fahad Al Obaidli,
Preslav Nakov and Stephan Vogel

Automatic Arabic diacritics restoration based on deep nets Ahmad Al Sallab
and Mohsen Rashwan

A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment Lexicon for Arabic Opinion Mining Gilbert
Badaro, Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash and Wassim El-Hajj

Transliteration of Arabizi into Arabic Orthography: Developing a Parallel
Annotated Arabizi-Arabic Script SMS/Chat Corpus Ann Bies, Stephen Grimes,
Haejoong Lee, Mohamed Maamouri, Zhiyi Song, Jonathan Wright, Ramy Nagah
Eskander, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow

Tunisian dialect Wordnet : creation and enrichment using web resources and
other Wordnets Rihab Bouchlaghem, Aymen Elkhlifi and Rim Faiz

Arabizi Detection and Conversion to Arabic Kareem Darwish

A Framework for Creating an MWE Computational Lexical Resource for
Dialectal Arabic Abdelati Hawwari, Mohammed Attia and Mona Diab

Domain and Dialect Adaptation for Machine Translation into Egyptian Arabic
Serena Jeblee, Weston Feely, Houda Bouamor, Alon Lavie, Nizar Habash and
Kemal Oflazer

Semantic Query Expansion for Arabic Information Retrieval Ashraf Y.
Mahgoub, Mohsen A. Rashwan, Hazem Rafaat, Mohamed A. Zahran and Magda B.
Fayek

Arabic Native Language Identification Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras

Using Twitter to Collect a Multi-Dialectal Corpus of Arabic Hamdy Mubarak
and Kareem Darwish

Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on
Arabic Twitter Feeds Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser

AIDArabic A Named-Entity Disambiguation Framework for Arabic Text Mohamed
Amir Yosef, Marc Spaniol and Gerhard Weikum

Named Entity Recognition System for Dialectal Arabic Ayah Zirikly and Mona
Diab

Shared Task Papers

The First shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic Behrang
Mohit, Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Wajdi Zaghouani and Ossama Obeid

GWU-HASP: Hybrid Arabic Spelling and Punctuation Corrector Mona Diab,
Mohammed Attia and Mohamed Al-Badrashiny

Arabic Spelling Correction using Supervised Learning Youssef Hassan,
Mohamed Aly and Amir Atiya

CMUQ at The 2014 Automatic Arabic Error Correction Shared Task Serena
Jeblee, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani and Kemal Oflazer

TECHLIMED system description for the Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error
Correction Djamel Mostefa, Omar Asbayou and Ramzi Abbes

Automatic Correction of Arabic Text: a Cascaded Approach Hamdy Mubarak and
Kareem Darwish

Fast and Robust Arabic Error Correction System Michael Nawar and Moheb
Ragheb

The Columbia System in the QALB-2014 Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction
Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander, Noura Farra and Wael Salloum

A Pipeline Approach to Supervised Automatic Error Correction Nadi Tomeh,
Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander and Joseph Le Roux

Autocorrection of arabic common errors for large text corpus Taha Zerrouki,
Khaled Alhowaity and Amar Balla

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 Smrz, D??m-e D?am 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
Senior 
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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