[Corpora-List] First Call - ACL 2015 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing and the Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

[Wajdi Zaghouani]

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   ​​​First​ Call for Papers ​in ACL 2015 Workshop on Arabic Natural
Language Processing Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error
Correction
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*Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing* *​**(**WANLP 2015**​**)**​*
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*Including a Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction*



*Collocated with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China *




*IMPORTANT DATES (PRELIMINARY)*


  11 January 2015: First Call for Workshop Papers

14 May 2015: Workshop Paper Due Date

4 June 2015: Notification of Acceptance

21 June 2015: Camera-ready papers due

30 July 2015: Workshop Dates



Workshop Website: http://www.arabic-nlp.net/wanlp

Shared Task Website: TBA
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*WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION *
There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area
of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have
taken place, both in the Arab World and in association with international
conferences. This workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to
provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the
following:

   - Basic core technologies: morphological analysis,
   disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection,
   chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment
   analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc.
   - Applications: machine translation, speech recognition,
   speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy,
   assistive technologies, social media, etc.
   - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished
work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining
to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed.
Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be
willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions are expected to
be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references. Associated with
the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error correction (details
below).


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*SHARED TASK *
Following the success of the First Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error
Correction in the Arabic NLP Workshop 2014 (WANLP-2014, EMNLP, Doha), we
will conduct the Second Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction as
part of WANLP-2015. We designed this task in the traditions of high
profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as
CONLL's grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013
and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR,
among others.  The task relies on resources created under the
Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of
manually corrected Arabic text).


More details will be provided later.


Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2
for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments.
The paper needs to follow the standard format of ACL 2015 conference.
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*ORGANIZERS*


*Program Co-chairs *Nizar Habash,  New York University Abu Dhabi
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute


*Publication Co-chairs *Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar


*Publicity Chair *Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

* Shared Task Committee*
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University

Behrang Mohit (co-chair), UC Berkley

Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), New York University Abu Dhabi



*Program Committee*

TBA






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*Wajdi Zaghouani*

*Research Associate*

Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City

PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar
*Office*: CMU-Q 1210, *Phone*: (+974) 4454-8646

*Email*: wajdiz at qatar.cmu.edu

*Web*: www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/​
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