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ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING Call for Papers --- Palais des Congrès Fez (Morocco) 19-22 April 2004 http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ http://www.fsdmfes.ac.ma/jep-taln04/ ******************************************************** Due to its morphological, syntactic, phonetic and phonologic properties, the Arabic language is considered to be one of the most difficult languages for written and spoken language processing. Research on written Arabic language processing started in the 1970s, even before the problems of Arabic text editing were completely solved. The first studies focused primarily on lexicons and morphology. In the past ten years, the internationalisation of the WWW and the proliferation of communication tools in Arabic have led to the need for a large number of Arabic NLP applications. As a result, research activity has extended to address more general areas of Arabic language processing, including syntactic analysis, machine translation, document indexing, information retrieval, etc. Research on Arabic speech processing has made significant progress due to more improved signal processing technologies, and to recent advances in the knowledge of the prosodic and the segmental characteristics of Arabic and the acoustic modelling of Arab schemes. These results should make it possible to further progress in more innovative areas, such as Arabic speech recognition and synthesis, speech translation and automatic identification of a speaker and his/her geographic origin discrimination, etc. The aim of the joint session is to gather and reinforce collaboration between researchers from both the written and spoken Arabic language processing communities. It will also offer the opportunity to discuss recent advances on both the scientific and application sides of the problem, in monolingual and multilingual contexts. TOPICS This special session on written and spoken Arabic processing includes (but is not limited to) the following topics : - Speech recognition and comprehension, - Text to speech synthesis, - Automatic prosody generation, - Automatic speaker and language identification, - Geographic origin discrimination of Arabic speakers, - Arabic corpora & resources, - Speech acquisition for ASR and TTS systems, - Morphology, - Syntax, - Semantics, - Text parsing and generation, - Discourse analysis, - Text summarization, - Dialogue, - Machine translation. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline : 15 January 2004 Notification to authors : 20 February 2004 Camera-ready : 8 March 2004 Conference : 19-22 April 2004 **** only for the PC members ***** According to the detailed calendar below : - Submission deadline: 15 January 2004 - Submissions sent to the reviewers : 22 January 2004 - Reviews ready and sent back : 13 February 2004 - Notification to authors: 20 February 2004 - Corrections sent back : 27 February 2004 - Corrections validation : 05 March 2004 - Camera-ready: 8 March 2004 - Conference: 19-22 April 2004 **** only for the PC members ***** SELECTION, LANGUAGES AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Please check the available information on the conference web site : http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ SUBMISSION ADDRESS Electronic submissions, with the message object "JEP-TALN-2004-Arabic", have to be sent to the following email address : < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In case electronic submissions are not possible, printed versions might be accepted. In this case, three hard-copies of the paper together with a floppy disk, have to be sent to : Malek Boualem France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI 2, avenue Pierre Marzin 22307 Lannion - France or Noureddine Chenfour Département de Math. et Informatique Faculté des Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Fès BP : 1796 Atlas, Fès - Maroc ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------ Malek Boualem France Telecom R&D - DMI/GRI 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ -- For MT-List info, see http://www.eamt.org/mt-list.html