Corpora: CfP: ARABIC NLP Workshop at ACL2001

[Steven Krauwer]

                           ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop

              ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects

                    Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001

                              Co-organized by:

                               ELSNET NAPLUS

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION:

   The objective of the workshop is threefold.
     * First of all we want to bring together people who are actively
       involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or
       multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on
       completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of
       products and core technologies. This should enable the
       participants to develop a common view on where we stand with
       respect to Arabic language processing.
     * Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and
       possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of
       tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and
       dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current
       best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer
       mechanisms, etc.
     * Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic
       NLP community and the NLP community at large.

   The workshop program will include the following components:
     * Introduction
     * Overview talks
     * Scientific papers
     * Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products
     * A panel session and/or a round table discussion
     * Conclusions

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS:

   Papers are solicited that address all aspects of Arabic language
   processing in a mono- or multilingual context, including tools,
   resources and standards. Papers will have to be original and report on
   completed research. Submissions of scientific papers should not exceed
   eight (8) pages. Please provide a list of keywords in the separate
   header page. Further submission details below.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS, CORE
TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS:

   Short presentations serve to give the audience an impression of
   ongoing activities and projects, and of existing core technologies and
   products, with a view to possible collaboration and synergies (i.e. NO
   commercial product presentations). Submissions of short presentations
   should not exceed two (2) pages. Short presentations will be reviewed
   on the basis of relevance and clarity of presentation.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS:

   Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the
   appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions
   should not exceed the length indicated above, including references.
   You can download the appropriate style or template files using the
   following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. Submission and
   presentation language is English. In case of problems with the
   submission format, please contact steven.krauwer at elsnet.org.

   Submissions should be sent to steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. All
   submissions will be acknowledged.

DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS:

     * Submission deadline:      6th April 2001
     * Notification date:       27th April 2001
     * Camera-ready papers due: 16th May 2001
     * Workshop date:            6th July 2001

CONFIRMED CORE PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:

     * Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair,
       myaseen at cbj.gov.jo)
     * Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair,
       dichy at univ-lyon2.fr)
     * Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET, The Netherlands
       (Contact person, steven.krauwer at elsnet.org)
     * Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia (adn at gnet.tn)
     * Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn)
     * Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait (hbh at moe.edu.kw)
     * Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France (senellart at systran.fr)
     * Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt (nhegazy at idsc.gov.eg)
     * Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France (choukri at elda.fr)
     * Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France
       (malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr)
     * Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
       (e.ditters at let.kun.nl)

WORKSHOP URL:

   http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html

CONTACT INFO:

   Steven Krauwer        email: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org
   ELSNET / UiL OTS      www: http://www.elsnet.org
   Trans 10              phone: +31 30 253 6050
   3512 JK Utrecht, NL   fax: +31 30 253 6000