[Corpora-List] EXTENDED DEADLINE: Arabic Natural Language Processing Session (ANLP-ACIT'2008)

[Lamia Hadrich Belguith]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Arabic Natural Language Processing Session  (ANLP-ACIT'2008)

at the International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2008)

December 16-18, 2008  Hammamet, Tunisia
                                         
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.acit2k.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 


Session Description



Arabic language is spoken in more than 20 countries. It is the native language of over 200 million people.

Arabic is considered among the languages that are difficult to process automatically.  Nevertheless, the necessity of Arabic NLP systems is being essential especially with the Internet explosion. Thus, the need to help Arabic people to have access to information and technologies in their mother tongues is being of great importance.

The aim of this session is to bring together researchers and industrials that are actively involved in Arabic language processing and give them an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems; to discuss the common challenges faced by all practitioners; and to assess the state of the art in the field. In addition, one of the aims of this session is to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of Arabic NLP systems. 

This session includes but is not limited to the following topics:
* Part of speech tagging
* Morphological analysis and generation
* Shallow and deep parsing
* Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
* Semantic analysis
* Information retrieval
* Information extraction
* Question answering
* Text clustering and classification
* Text summarization
* Text and web content  mining
* Named entity recognition



Session chairs :
 Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Bilel Gargouri & Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou 
(LARIS-MIRACL, University of Sfax, Tunisia)
 
ACIT Keynote speakers:

Prof. Ali Farghaly (Oracle, USA)
Keynote Speech Title: Arabic language processing: Overview, current applications and leader projects
 
Prof. Abdel Belaïd (LORIA, Nancy- France)
Keynote Speech Title: Arabic Language Recognition
 
Richard Thomas Watson (University of Georgia)
Keynote Speech Title: The Business of Open Source
 
 
Submission: 

Submissions must be in English. Authors are invited to submit a paper of 8 pages (in Postscript or PDF) to : 
Bilel Gargouri  (bilel.gargouri at fsegs.rnu.tn)
With a CC to :
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn)  
and  (bilel.gargouri at gmail.com)
 

Instructions for preparing the manuscript are available on :

http://www.acit2k.org/sub2008.html?ACIT2008/final.html

 

Papers will be evaluated at least by two reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, and contribution. Submitted Papers must not have been previously published or currently  submitted for publication  elsewhere.




Important dates: 
Paper Submission: **** August 15, 2008 ****
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2008 
Camera-ready submission & registration: October 15, 2008
Conference period: December 16-18, 2008

 

Program Committee: 

·        Lamia Hadrich Belguith (LARIS-MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)  

·        Bilel Gargouri (MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)

·        Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (MIRACL/ISIMS, Tunisie) 

·        Ali Farghaly(Oracle, USA)

·        Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)

·        Malek Boualem (France Telecom R&D, France)

·        Philippe Blache (LPL-Université de Provence, France) 

·        Khaled Shaalan (Université du Caire, Egypte)  

·        Joseph Dichy (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France)  

·        Farid Meziane (Salford University, Manchester)

·        Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA)

·        Mariem Ellouze (MIRACL/ECS, Tunisie)

·        Hatem Ghorbel (CGC- Lausanne, Suisse)  

·        Maher Jaoua (MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)

·        Chafik Aloulou (LARIS-MIRACL/FSEGS, Tunisie)

·        Selim Mesfar  (Université de Franche-Comté, France)

·        Kais Haddar (MIRACL/FSS, Tunisie) 

 

Contact : 
For any additional information, Please contact Bilel Gargouri (bilel.gargouri at fsegs.rnu.tn) 
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