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 Workshop on
Arabic Natural Language Processing
Description
Nowadays, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques are being widely investigated because they represent the key to develop tools able to process the huge amount of digital information available both on the Internet and the local repositories held by institutions and companies.
In comparison with other languages, the Arabic language is in a need of great investigations in the NLP techniques to provide the necessary resources to the interested researchers and to discern the relevant and appropriate techniques for this language.
Many of the computational linguistics conferences and competitions give the chance to the researchers to discuss and compare language-independent techniques. However, the Arabic language is quite different from other languages and a special focus is needed from the researchers to tackle the challenges it presents.
The final aim of this event is to bring together researchers interested in the area of the NLP in the Arabic language to foster the discussion of the future of this research area in a language which is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, one of the five working languages of the African Union and spoken by more than 300 millions of people all around the world.
Topics
Submissions are welcome in all the areas of Natural Language Processing in the Arabic language. We invite papers which explore topics of interest including:
- Information Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Question Answering
- Text Clustering
- Text Summarization
- Text Mining
- Named Entity Recognition
- Word Sense Discrimination
- Ontologies
- Lexical resources
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Workshop Format and Paper Submission
Submit the short paper (up to 4 pages) by e-mail by JANUARY 7, 2007 to nlparabic@dsic.upv.es. Please, use the template available at main conference website: http://www.ictis07.org. Submitted papers will be judged based on relevance to the NLP in Arabic dissemination, novelty of the idea, technical quality, clarity of presentation, and expected impact on future research within the area of focus. Registration to ICTIS’07 will be required for participation, so perspective participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all details not covered in the present call. |
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline Jan 7 2007
Notification of acceptance Jan 21 2007
Final Paper Submission deadline Jan 29 2007
Advance Registration deadline Jan 30 2007
Workshop Apr 3-5 2007 |
Workshop Chair
Paolo Rosso : Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
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Program Committee
- Abdelouahid Lyhyaou (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco)
- Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
- Gregory Grefenstette (LIC2M/CEA-LIST, France)
- Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)
- Mohamed Maamouri (LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA)
- Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA)
- Owen Rambow (Columbia University, USA)
- Tim Buckwalter (LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (San Francisco State University, USA) |
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