Call for Participation The First Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation (ALRE) Workshop on April 22 Doha, Qatar https://arabicspeech.org/static/data_resources/announcement/Arabic_LRE_2020.pdf
Held in conjunction with the second ArabicSpeech 2020 Meeting. The aim of ALRE is to provide an overview of the current challenges, projects and planned activities regarding Arabic Language Resources and their applications, industrial uses and needs. There has been a lot of progress in the last 20 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. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work related to building Arabic Language Resources covering all Arabic varieties. The program includes a mixture of invited speakers, oral presentations, a poster session and a breakout session. We invite submissions on topics that include but are not limited to dictionaries, lexicons, ontologies, annotated data, annotation tools, methods, data collection methods, corpora, and projects, etc. Associated Meeting The Second ArabicSpeech Meeting will be held on 20 and 21 of April. Details can be found here. https://arabicspeech.org/static/data_resources/announcement/ArabicSpeechCall_2020.pdf Submissions Submissions may include work in progress as well as completed projects. We encourage submissions to have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language, whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed. Submissions on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic are also welcome. Participants may submit a poster and/or an abstract Important Dates February 10, 2020: Abstracts / Posters due date. Submit your poster/abstracts to: wzaghou...@hbku.edu.qa February 25, 2020: Notification of Acceptance April 22, 2020: Workshop Date Submission Format The poster standard format is A0. Abstract submissions should have a minimum of 200 words. Organizers Mohamed Afify – Microsoft Ahmed Ali – QCRI Yasser Hifny – Cerence Erfan Loweimi - University of Edinburgh Jan Trmal - JHU Wajdi Zaghouani - HBKU Imed Zitouni – Google Registration / Confirmation / Travel Support Requests You can register for the workshop using the link below to confirm your participation and also request travel support if needed (limited funding available). https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLmTVOcv_9adFsEn83tW5S9EUdYnFan9kogfGYCOSnSjAjSQ/viewform Contacts You can also email us at: wzaghou...@hbku.edu.qa ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghou...@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building
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