[Corpora-List] Final CFP: LREC Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts

Thu Feb 2 17:00:31 UTC 2012

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LRE-Rel: Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts
LREC 2012 pre-conference workshop 22 May 2012 (morning)
Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre

Workshop Website: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite submissions for the first workshop on: Language Resources
and Evalution for Religious Texts. The focus of this workshop is the
application of computer-supported and Text Analytics techniques to
religious texts ranging from: the faith-defining religious canon;
authoritative interpretations and commentary; sermons; liturgy;
prayers; poetry; and lyrics. We see this as an inclusive and
cross-disciplinary topic, and the workshop aims to bring together
researchers with a generic interest in religious texts to raise
awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to identify
some common themes.

We therefore welcome submissions on a range of topics, including but
not limited to:

•        analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech;
recitation styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious
texts;
•        formulaic language and multi-word expressions in religious texts;
•        suitability of modal and other logic types for knowledge
representation and inference in religious texts;
•        issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts;
•        text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for
religious texts;
•        corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora;
•        dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts;
•        measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts;
•        (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for
religious texts;
•        annotation and analysis of religious metaphor;
•        genre analysis for religious texts;
•        application in other disciplines (e.g. theology, classics,
philosophy, literature) of computer-supported methods for analysing
religious texts.

Important Dates
13.02.2012                Deadline for paper submissions
27.02.2012                Notification of acceptance
09.03.2012                Camera-ready copies due
22.05.2012                Workshop

Submissions
Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details and  
these are now available as an Author's Kit from the main conference  
website:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/
A link to the Author's Kit is here provided:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Authors-Kit
Please also note that papers should be submitted either as a Word  
document or a .pdf file (preferably both) via the START conference  
manager for our workshop accessed via this link:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/LRE-Rel2012/

Papers will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, and
possibly via special issue of an appropriate journal.

This year, when submitting a paper from the START page, authors will
be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad
sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that
have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result
of your research. For further information on this new initiative,
please refer to: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/LRE-Map-2012

Workshop Organisers and Co-chairs, with contact persons identified via
email address

Abdul Malik Al-Salman: King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Eric Atwell: University of Leeds, UK
Claire Brierley: University of Leeds, UK scscb at leeds.ac.uk
Azzeddine Mazroui: Mohammed First University, Morocco
Majdi Sawalha: University of Jordan sawalha.majdi at gmail.com
Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf: University of Leeds, UK
Bayan Abu Shawar:  Arab Open University, Jordan

Programme Committee

Nawal Alhelwal: Arabic Department, Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman
University, Saudi Arabia
Qasem Al-Radaideh: Computer Information Systems, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Abdul Malik Al-Salman: Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud
University, Saudi Arabia
Eric Atwell: School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Amna Basharat: Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology,
FAST-NU, Pakistan
James Dickins: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds, UK
Kais Dukes: School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Mahmoud El-Haj: Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,
University of Essex, UK
Nizar Habash: Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia
University, US
Salwa Hamada: Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Bassam Hasan Hammo: Information Systems, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Dag Haug: Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University
of Oslo, Norway
Moshe Koppel: Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Rohana Mahmud: Computer Science and Information Technology, University
of Malaya, Malaysia
Azzeddine Mazroui: Mathematics and Computer Science, Mohammed 1st
University, Morocco
Tony McEnery: English Language and Linguistics, University of Lancaster, UK
Aida Mustapha: Computer Science and Information Technology, University
of Putra, Malaysia
Mohamadou Nassourou: Computer Philology and Modern German Literature,
University of Würzburg, Germany
Nils Reiter: Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg
University, Germany
Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf: School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Bayan Abu Shawar: Information Technology and Computing, Arab Open
University, Jordan
Andrew Wilson: Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK
Nagwa Younis: English Department, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Wajdi Zaghouani: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, US

Further Information

If you have questions, please consult the workshop website at:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html

Alternatively, contact: Claire Brierley scscb at leeds.ac.uk or Majdi Sawalha
sawalha.majdi at gmail.com

Claire Brierley
Senior Research Fellow
Computing
University of Leeds, UK

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