[Corpora-List] NooJ'09 : Last Call for participation

[mesfar slim]

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Last call
for participation

International
NooJ 2009 Conference

8–10 June 2009, Tozeur, Tunisia

Conference & Workshop

http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj/

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The NooJ 2009
conference is organized by the Multimedia InfoRmation & Advanced Computing
Laboratory (MIR at CL), in collaboration with the “Institut Supérieur de
l’informatique et du Multimédia de Sfax”, the “Faculty of sciences”, the “University of Sfax, Tunisia”, the “Semio-linguistic
Laboratory, the Didactic and computer science” (LASELDI) of University Franche-Comté”
and the “Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Claude Ledoux”.

 

The
conference will be held in Tozeur city, Tunisia. Tozeur (Arabic: توزر‎) is a city in the South West Tunisia, located
between Chott-el-Djerib and Chott el-Gharsa. With hundreds of thousands of palm
trees, Tozeur is a large oasis. Dates produced in Tozeur are famous. In ancient
times, before the advent of motorized vehicles, the oasis was an important
transportation node through the Sahara for
caravans. The name of the city in antiquity was Tusuros, it was an important
Roman outpost.


The
conference intends to :

• give NooJ
users and researchers in Corpus Linguistics and in Computational Linguistics
the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers
and teachers; 

• present
to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed
for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments; 

• offer
researchers and graduate students three tutorials (two basic and one advanced) to
help them become proficient, parse corpora and build NLP applications
autonomously.

 

The
conference registration is now open. Please, fill in the registration form, available
at our web site (http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj/Registration_Form.doc), no later
than Thursday 28th May 2009.

 

The NooJ 2009
preliminary program is available at: (http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/nooj/Preliminary
Program.pdf)

 

The
organizing committee is in charge of booking the hotel rooms for all
participants. There are two options: single rooms or shared double rooms. For
further information about the conference hotel, you can visit its web site at
http://www.ksar-rouge.com/. 

 

We will be
organizing shuttles between Tozeur’s airport and the hotel, and will help
participants come to Tozeur from Tunis
or other locations. Please give us your arrival and departure times and
airports to arrange the shuttles.

 

Don’t
hesitate to ask for any further information; we look forward to seeing you at
NooJ 2009 ! 

 With best
regards,

 

On behalf
of the Organizing Committee - NooJ'09,

Dr.
Slim Mesfar


      
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