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HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and **local **
languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects *
Please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html for
details.
* Motivation and Aims*
This Workshop intends to add value to the issues addressed during the
main conference (Human Language Technologies (HLT) & Natural Language
Processing (NLP)) and enhance the work carried out at different places
to process Arabic language(s) and more generally Semitic languages and
other local and foreign languages spoken in the region.
It should bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic
Written and Spoken language processing in a mono- or cross/multilingual
context, and give them an opportunity to update the community through
reports on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of
LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products and core technologies
(in particular open source ones). This should enable the participants to
develop a common view on where we stand with respect to these particular
set of languages and to foster the discussion of the future of this
research area. Particular attention will be paid to activities involving
technologies such as Machine Translation, Cross-Lingual Information
Retrieval/extraction, Summarization, Speech to text transcriptions,
etc., and languages such as Arabic varieties, Amazigh, Amharic, Hebrew,
Maltese, and other local languages. Evaluation methodologies and
resources for evaluation of HLT are also a main focus.
* Topics of Interest *
The submissions should address some of the following issues:
· Issues in the design, the acquisition, creation, management, access,
distribution, use of Language Resources (Standard Arabic, Colloquial
Arabic, other Semitic languages, Amazigh, Coptic, Maltese,
English/French spoken locally, etc.)
· Impact on LR collections/processing and NLP of the crucial issues
related to "code switching" between different dialects and languages
· Specific issues related to the above-mentioned languages such as role
of morphology, named entities, corpus alignment, etc.)
· Multilinguality issues including relationship between Colloquial and
Standard Arabic
· Exploitation of LR in different types of applications
· Industrial LR requirements and community's response;
· Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and
evaluation for written and spoken language processing;
· Focus on some key technologies such as MT (all approaches e.g.
Statistical, Example-Based, etc.), Information Retrieval, Speech
Recognition, Spoken Documents Retrieval, CLIR, Question-Answering,
Summarization,
· Local, regional, and international activities and projects;
· Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for regional and
international cooperation.
* Submission Details (more on
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/Workshops.html) *
Submissions must be in English. Abstracts for workshop contributions
should not exceed Four A4 pages (excluding references). An additional
title page should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and
contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone
and fax numbers.
Submission is to be sent by email, preferably in Postscript or PDF
format, to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to arrive before *
15 February 2008 * .
Registration to LREC’08 will be required for participation, so potential
participants are invited to refer to the main conference website for all
details not covered in the present call (
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/)
* Important Dates *
Call for papers: 3 January 2008
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February 2008
Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2008
Final version of accepted paper: 11 April 2008
Workshop full-day: Saturday 31^st May 2008
* Workshop chair *
Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France )
* Workshop Co-chairs *
Mona Diab, Columbia University , USA
Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen , Denmark )
Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica Valencia , Spain
Abdelhadi Soudi ENIM ( Morocco )
Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA and Monterey Institute of International Studies,
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