Date: 01-Apr-2009
From: Karine Megerdoomian <karine mitre.org>
Subject: Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages
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Full Title: Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages
Short Title: CAASL3
Date: 26-Aug-2009 - 26-Aug-2009
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Karine Megerdoomian
Meeting Email: caasl3arabicscript.org
Web Site: http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 08-May-2009
Meeting Description:
The Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to
Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for presentation at CAASL3,
being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.
The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought together researchers working on
the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian
(Farsi and Dari), Pashto and Urdu, among others. The usage of the Arabic script
and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues
that are common to these languages despite their being of distinct language
families, such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to
non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.
The third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first workshop,
will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government
developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and experience with
a focus on machine translation. It also provides an opportunity to assess the
progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004.
Call for Papers
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009
Workshop Topics
We welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages.
However, preference would be given to papers that focus on Machine Translation
applications of Arabic script-based languages. The main themes of this workshop
include:
- Statistical and rule-based machine translation
- Translation aids
- Evaluation methods and techniques of machine translation systems
- MT of dialectal and conversational language
- Computer-mediated communication (e.g., blogs, forums, chats)
- Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources for MT applications
- Speech-to-speech MT
- MT combined with other technologies (speech translation, cross-language
information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text
summarization, multilingual natural language generation, etc.)
- Entity extraction
- Tokenization and segmentation
- Speech synthesis and recognition
- Text to speech systems
- Semantic analysis
Submission Requirements
Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under consideration
for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the author(s). They should
emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Each paper will be
anonymously reviewed by three members of the program committee.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format to caasl3arabicscript.org by midnight of
the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be attached to
an email indicating contact information for the author(s) and paper's title.
Papers should not exceed 8 pages including references and tables, and should
follow the formatting guidelines posted at
Contact Information
For further information, please visit the workshop site at
http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 or contact the organizing committee at
caasl3arabicscript.org.
Organizing Committee
Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.
Tentative Program Committee
Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Hany Hassan (IBM)
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Stephan Vogel (CMU)
Imed Zitouni (IBM)
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