Full Title: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
Short Title: (WACL-4)

Date: 19-Jan-2025 - 20-Jan-2025
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Contact Person: Amal Haddad Haddad
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL - 4) will serve as an outstanding international platform for exchanging knowledge and outcomes in the theory, methodology, and applications of language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP.

Call for Papers:

The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora
- Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects
- Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating
- Arabic Dialects
- Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects
- Dialect Identification and Classification
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects
- Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects
- Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects
- Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects
- Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects
- Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects
- Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects
- Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios

Summary of the Call:

We welcome submissions of papers centred around Arabic Dialects NLP and resources, focusing on supporting and advancing language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP.

Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/.

If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work.

Submissions may be of two types:

Long papers – up to eight (8) pages including references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.
Short papers – up to four (4) pages including references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc.

Important dates:

1st Call for Papers Announcement: 13 August 2024
2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 31 August 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 October 2024
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 25 November 2024
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 10 December 2024
Workshop Date: 20th January 2025