Dear all, due to several requests, we extend the submission deadline to January 23 2017. Regards, Workshop Organizers ============================================================= LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple postings. Please distribute to colleagues The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP-2017) co-located with EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain For more information, please visit: http://wanlp2017.arabic-nlp.net IMPORTANT DATES Nov 8, 2016: First Call for Workshop Papers Dec 7, 2016: Second Call for Workshop Papers Jan 23, 2017: Workshop Paper Due Date Feb 11, 2017: Notification of Acceptance Feb 21, 2017: Camera-ready papers due Monday April 3, 2017: Workshop Date (one day workshop) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Arabic is a challenging language for the field of computational linguistics. This is due to many factors including its complex and rich morphology, its high degree of ambiguity as well as the presence of a number of dialects that vary quite widely. Arabic is also a language with important geopolitical connections. It is spoken by over 400 million people in countries with varying degrees of prosperity and stability. It is the primary language of the latest world refugee problem affecting the Middle East and Europe. The opportunities that are made possible by working on this language and its dialects cannot be underestimated in their consequence on the Arab World, the Mediterranean Region and the rest of the World. There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the Arab World and in association with international conferences. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: -Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. -Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. -Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script are welcome. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Paper Length: Submissions are expected to be up to 8 pages long plus any number of pages for references. Submission Page: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2017/ArabicNLP/ Submission Format: Submissions must be in PDF and prepared using LaTeX. The format must conform to the official style guidelines for EACL 2017. The only accepted format is the EACL-2017 LaTeX template and no other format will be accepted such as Microsoft Word or Open Office etc... Invited Speaker The workshop will feature a keynote talk by Stephan Vogel from Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). Workshop Organizers General Chair: Nizar Habash Program Chairs: Mona Diab, Kareem Darwish, Wassim El-Hajj, Hend Alkhalifa, and Houda Bouamor Publication Chairs: Nadi Tomeh and Mahmoud El-Haj Publicity Chairs: Fethi Bougares and Wajdi Zaghouani Program Committee Members Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, University of British Columbia, Canada Mohammad Abushariah, The University of Jordan, Jordan Almoataz Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar Ibrahim Bounhas, LISI computing laboratory for industrial systems, Carthage University,Tunisia Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammad V University, Morocco Achraf Chalabi, Microsoft Research, Egypt Khalid Choukri, ELDA, European Language Resource Association, France Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar Ramy Eskander, Columbia University, USA Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran Mohamed Maamouri, Linguistic Data Consortium, USA Walid Magdy, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco Emad Mohamed, Suez Canal University, Egypt Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon Hamdy Mubarak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille, France Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar Otakar Smrž, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Samantha Wray, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA _______________________________________________ Mt-list site list Mt-list@eamt.org http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
