[Corpora-List] Submission deadline 1 April 2009: Arabic NLP special issue [TALIP]

[Prof_Khaled Shaalan]

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The Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
                           http://talip.acm.org/
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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This special issue of the *ACM Transactions on Asian Language
Information Processing (TALIP)* is intended to present the
state-of-the-art in research on Arabic natural language processing,
Arabic computational linguistics, applied Arabic linguistics and
related areas. This call is intended to be as broad as possible. We
solicit original research papers on topics including, but not limited
to:

* Linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.)
* Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
* Part of speech tagging
* Morphological analysis and generation
* Shallow and deep parsing
* Machine translation
* Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
* Semantic analysis
* Information extraction and retrieval
* Question answering
* Text clustering, and classification
* Text summarization
* Text and web content  mining
* Named entity recognition
* Colloquial-based language processing

#### Important Dates #####
* Submissions due for review: 1 April 2009
* Notification of 1st decision: 1 July 2009
* Revisions due: 15 August 2009
* Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2009
* Final version submitted: 1 November 2009
* Issue publication: March 2010

##### Submission Guidelines #####
Papers should be formatted following the style guidelines for the ACM
Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
(http://talip.acm.org). The instructions for preparing manuscripts for
submission can be found at
http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions. Please submit papers in
PDF format using the web-based submission system Manuscript Central
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/talip). In order to identify the
submission as for the special issue, please indicate "This paper is
being submitted to the Special Issue on Arabic NLP" on the first page
of the paper. Please notice that the typical paper length is 20-30
pages.

##### Guest Editors #####
* Prof. Khaled Shaalan, (Fellow) School of Informatics University of
Edinburgh, UK; Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University;
Faculty of Informatics, British Univ. in Dubai. Email:
k.shaalan_AT_fci-cu.edu.eg.
* Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group,
Oracle USA, CA; Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey
Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA. Email:
ali.farghaly_AT_oracle.com

For a one page PDF version of this Call for papers upload
http://www.buid.ac.ae/shaalan/arabnlpcfp.pdf

-- 
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Shaalan, Ph. D.
Professor
Computer Science Dept.
Faculty of Computers & Information
Cairo University

5 Ahmed Zewel St.,
Orman, Dokki, Giza
12613 Egypt

Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg
Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com

(Fellow) School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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