Second Call for Papers and Deadline Extension Fourth Workshop On Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL4) In conjunction with The tenth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2012)San Diego CA, USA Thursday, November 1st, 2012 The Organizing Committee of the Fourth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL4) invites proposals for presentations at CAASL4. Workshop Description
Three years after CAASL3, this workshop provides an opportunity for developers and researchers in Academia, the industry, and government to present their work, exchange ideas, and demonstrate systems that focus on the challenging task of dealing with all aspects in natural language processing for languages that use the Arabic script. It also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made since the third workshop in 2009. Authors are invited to submit papers on completed original research and research in progress on any aspect of NLP for the Arabic Script-based languages. Papers should relate directly or indirectly to the following themes: Statistical and rule-based machine translation Translation Aids Evaluation Methods and Techniques of machine translation systems Localization and multilingual information retrieval systems Shallow and deep parsing Data driven approaches Entity extraction Tokenization and segmentation Name matching Speech synthesis and recognition Text to speech systems Semantic analysis Knowledge Bases Information retrieval Semantic web and inferences Topic Detection and text summarization Invites Speaker Dr. Hassan Sawaf, Chief Scientist, Saic Title of Presentation "More than 20 years of Machine Translation of Arabic-Script Languages: Overview of the History of Diverse Challenges in Research and Deployment" Workshop Dates and submission deadlines The workshop will be held on Thursday November 1st, 2012 from 9 – 5. Papers submission deadline: August 8st, 2012 Author notification: August 22, 2012 Camera Ready submissions due: September 3rdth, 2012 Submission Guidelines To allow for blind reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within the paper and avoid obvious self-references. Anonymous version to be uploaded at https://www.softconf.com/amta2012/CAASL4/ Another copy with author information to be mailed to [email protected] Formatting Guidelines Format for original papers is the same as for regular AMTA submissions: papers should not be longer than 8 pages, including references and tables. AMTA Style files (Latex and MS Word) are available here: http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/Documents/amta2012-style-files.zip. Papers should present original, previously unpublished or under consideration work. Papers will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the program committee. Organizing Committee Ali Farghaly and Farhard Oroumchian Contact information for inquiries [email protected] Program Committee Tim Buckwalter University of Maryland, USA Sherri Condon MITRE, USA Mona Diab Columbia University, USA Sarmad Hussain Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan Farhad Oroumchian University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Khaled Shaalan The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Ahmed Rafea The American University in Cairo, Egypt Imed Zitouni IBM, USA Azadeh Shakery University of Tehran, Iran Abdelhadi Saudi École Nationale de l'Industrie, Morocco Emad Mohamed Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Saad Khaan Rosetta Stone, USA Mohamed Attia The British University in Dubai, UAE Ashraf Elnagar University of Sharja, UAE Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki Yazd University. IranBehrouz Minaei Iran University of Science and Technolog, Iran Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani Sharif University of Technology, Iran Ashraf Elnagar University of Sharja, UAE Zaher Al Aghbari University of Sharja, UAE Behrouz Minaei Iran University of Science and Technology
_______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
