ACL-02 Workshop CFP: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
First Call for Papers

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

ACL-2002
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July, 2002

This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches
to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING98 in Montreal. Since that
time, there have been various other workshops, but these have mostly
turned out to be either rather applications-oriented, or rather
language specific, or both. Whilst not neglecting applications, the
present workshop aims to attract submissions that contribute
significantly to theoretical insights concerning computational
frameworks underlying the processing of Semitic languages in
general. Morphology and/or phonology would seem to be promising areas
of investigation in this sense. An effort will also be made to
highlight submissions that concern a representative set of
languages.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

-  Orthographic Representation
-  Morphological/Phonological Models
-  Speech Applications
-  Syntax, Parsing and Generation
-  Semantics
-  Acquisition of Language Resources
-  Corpora
-  Use of Machine Learning Techniques
-  Multilingual / Mixed Language Applications
-  Information Retrieval and Extraction

Program Committee

  Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair), mike.rosner at um.edu.mt
  Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel (co-chair), shuly at cs.haifa.ac.il
  Ken Beesley, XRCE, France, ken.beesley at xrce.xerox.com
  Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR Software, Cairo, Egypt, ac at sakhr.com
  Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel, yco636sc at netvision.net.il
  Anne De Roeck, Open University, UK, A.DeRoeck at open.ac.uk
  Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, evens at iit.edu
  Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta, rfab1 at um.edu.mt
  Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia, ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn
  Alon Itai, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, itai at cs.technion.ac.il
  Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
  Mounira Loughraieb, University of Nancy 2, France,
  mounira.loughraieb at clsh.univ-nancy2.fr
  Chadia Moghrabi, University of Moncton, mograc at umoncton.ca
  Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo
  Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University, US, rzajac at crl.nmsu.edu
  Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, adn at gnet.tn

Important dates

  February 24, 2002: Deadline for submissions
  April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance
  May 1, 2002: Final version due
  July 11, 2002: Workshop date

Home Page and Further Details

  http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL