[Corpora-List] CFP: Special Issue on Arabic NLP: Current State and Future Challenges

[Prof_Khaled Shaalan]

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL For Papers
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Special Issue on Arabic NLP: Current State and Future Challenges
Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
(JKSU-CIS)
Publisher: Elsevier
URL:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-king-saud-university-computer-and-information-sciences
CFP URL: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/CIS_CFP.pdf
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Arabic is a member of the Semitic languages family that uses a distinct
alphabet set and spoken by more than 340 million individuals as their first
language. It is the official language, either solely or jointly, in twenty
countries located in the Middle East and Africa. Arabic is the language of
the Holly Qur’aan and one of the six official languages of the United
Nations.

Arabic Natural language processing (NLP) is still in its initial stage
compared to the work in English and other languages. NLP is made possible
by the collaboration of many disciplines including computer science,
linguistics, mathematics, psychology and artificial intelligence. The
results of which are highly beneficial for many applications such as
machine translation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, text
summarization and Question Answering.

This special issue of CCIS Journal is intended to present the current state
of research on Arabic NLP,

Arabic computational linguistics, and related areas. We welcome unpublished
high quality papers (in English) on current state of Arabic NLP including,
but not limited to:

* Part of Speech Tagging
* Morphological analysis and generation
* Word sense and Syntactic disambiguation
* Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
* Named Entity Recognition
* Corpus Linguistics (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.)
* Machine Translation
* Information Extraction
* Information Retrieval
* Question Answering
* Semantic and Sentiment analysis
* Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization

>>>> Important Dates <<<<<
* Submission of extended abstracts (300-500 words): October 30, 2013
* Notification of proposal acceptance: November 15th 2013
* Submission of full papers: January 30th 2014
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 30th 2014
* Final version submission: May 31st 2014
* Publication date: November 2014

>>>> Submission <<<<<
Submission System: http://ees.elsevier.com/jksu-cis/

>>>>> Guest Editors <<<<<
* Eric Atwell–  Associate Professor, Language research group,  I-AIBS
institute for artificial intelligence and biological systems,  School of
computing, Faculty of engineering, University of Leeds.
* Khaled Shaalan– Full Professor at Faculty of Computers & Information,
Cairo Univ. (on Secondment to The British University in Dubai).
* Imed Zitouni–PhD, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, Member of the
Relevance and Measurement team of Microsoft.

>>>>> Special Issue Editor <<<<<
Hend Al-Khalifa – Associate professor, Information Technology Department,
College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University
hendk at ksu.edu.sa

Regards,
Khaled
________________________________________________________________________________________
Khaled Shaalan, PhD
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
Personal Website: http://sites.google.com/site/khaledshaalan

(Fellow) School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK
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