35.2047, Calls: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script

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Subject: 35.2047, Calls: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script

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Date: 15-Jul-2024
From: Amal Haddad Haddad [amalhaddad at ugr.es]
Subject: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script


Full Title: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
Short Title: (AbjadNLP 2025)

Date: 19-Jan-2025 - 20-Jan-2025
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Contact Person: Amal Haddad Haddad
Meeting Email: amalhaddad at ugr.es
Web Site: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 16-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

AbjadNLP 2025 aims to advance innovation in Natural Language
Processing (NLP) for languages using the Arabic script, focusing on
Abjad and Ajami languages. These languages represent a significant
segment of the global linguistic mosaic, spanning numerous countries
and regions. By focusing on these languages, we aim to enhance the
versatility and adaptability of NLP models and applications, fostering
multilingualism and multiculturalism in NLP research. This workshop
will address the unique challenges and solutions associated with these
languages, promoting inclusive and equitable advancements in NLP.

Ajami languages, representing a myriad of African languages that have
adopted the Arabic script, span at least 43 distinct languages,
including Hausa, Fulfulde, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Kanuri, and
Tamazight. The combined number of speakers of these languages is
estimated to exceed 200 million within Africa alone. Although Abjad
has been traditionally associated with Semitic languages such as
Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac, it has been adopted for writing by many
other language communities as in Perso-Arabic scripts used in Persian,
Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Sindhi, and Uyghur, with
a collective estimated speaker population exceeding 500 million.
Altogether, these languages represent an approximate global aggregate
of 1 billion speakers.

Call for Papers:

>> We invite submissions on the following topics:
Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing,
semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc.
Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies,
social media, etc.
Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora,
orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input
methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK
descriptions, open access corpora.
Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing,
transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP
applications.

>> Key Dates:
1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024
2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024
Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025

>> Organising Committee:

General Chair:
- Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University

Programme Chairs:
- Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar
- Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University
- Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University

Review Committee:
- Manum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja
- Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad

Publication Chair:
- Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich

Publicity Chairs:
- Cynthia Amol, Maseno University
- Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada
- Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey

Advisory Committee:
- Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University



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