Corpora: NEW SEMITIC DEADLINE

Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:27:24 +0200

Apologies for multiple listings

Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

COLING-ACL98

Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal

Final Call for Papers

***SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15th April ***
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically
targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the result
of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research
establishments. A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little
awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced
outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all
practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach. The
aims of this workshop are therefore:

* To provide a forum where current work in a broad range of subfields can
be presented, collected and diffused.
* To assess the state of the art with a view to identifying promising
areas for future collaborative research.
* To set up initiatives to explore the possibilities of supporting such
research through national and international funding agencies.

SUBTOPICS

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Educational Applications
* Empirical Methods
* Orthographic Represention
* Language Modelling
* Language Resources
* Lexicon and Lexical Represention
* Machine Translation
* Morphology and Phonology
* Multilinguality
* Syntax, Parsing and Generation
* Speech Applications

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator)

Mohamed Abd-Elsalam, Sakr Software, Egypt
Ken Beesley, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
Khalid Choukri, ELRA /ELDA, France
Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Fathi Debili, CNRS-CRLAO (Paris) / IRMC, Tunis
Mamoun Hattab, Arabic Textware, Amman, Jordan
George Kiraz, Bell Labs, USA
Chadia Moghrabi, Univerity of Moncton, Canada
Mori Rimon, Hebrew University, Israel

SPONSOR

Mid-Med Bank, Malta

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Deadlines

* **NEW** Submission Deadline: April 15, 1998
* Notification Date: June 1, 1998
* Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998

Format

* Electronic submissions only, Postscript format.
* Provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic from
the above list.
* LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL:
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty
* Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
* Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies
within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
* Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12
points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
* Please submit papers to mros@cs.um.edu.mt. All submissions will be
acknowledged.

CONTACT

Michael Rosner: mros@cs.um.edu.mt
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