Second Call for Papers and Participation
Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
co-located with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar
Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Extended Paper submission deadline: July 28, 2014
Shared task registration deadline: July 1, 2014
Submission instructions are available here.
NEW: List of Accepted Papers
NEW: Workshop Schedule
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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. This workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work.
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, specialized databases 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. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Submissions are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: July 28, 2014
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop: October 25, 2014
SHARED TASK
Associated with the workshop, there will also be a shared task on Arabic text error correction, which we provide further details about here.
ORGANIZERS
Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Website Committee
Noura Farra, Columbia University
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash (advisor), New York University Abu Dhabi
Program Committee Members
Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco
Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya
Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt
Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille, France
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA
Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt
Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran
Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco
Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan
Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia
Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon
Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA
Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA
Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France
Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Khalil Sima'an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar
Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA
Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine
Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria
Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France
Ossama Emam, IBM, USA
Otakar Smr_, D_ám-e D_am Language Institute, Czech Republic
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France
Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt
Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran
Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA
Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
Contact
Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi
habash@ccls.columbia.edu