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Today's Topics:

1. CFP: Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages (CAASL3) (Megerdoomian, Karine)

2. cfp: EPIA09 track on Text Mining and Applications. deadline:

15 April 2009 (gpl@di.fct.unl.pt)

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From: "Megerdoomian, Karine" <karine@mitre.org>

To: "mt-list@eamt.org" <mt-list@eamt.org>

Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:58:36 -0400

Subject: [Mt-list] CFP: Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages (CAASL3)

* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

THIRD WORKSHOP ON

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009

Machine Translation Summit XII Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

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.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

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.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be found at http://

www.arabicscript.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009 Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009

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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 caasl3@arabicscript.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 caasl3@arabicscript.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)

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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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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:52:05 +0100 (WEST)

Subject: [Mt-list] cfp: EPIA09 track on Text Mining and Applications. deadline: 15 April 2009

*********** CALL FOR PAPERS ***********

Text Mining and Applications (TeMA’09) Track of EPIA09

TeMA-2009 will be held at the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), in University of Aveiro, Portugal, 12-15 October 2009. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese

Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).

EPIA 2009 URL: http://epia2009.appia.pt/

This announcement contains:

[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4]

Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts.

[1] Track Description:

Pure symbolic methods for Language Processing alone are unable to address human languages complexity. Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques applied to text, raw or annotated, brought up new insights and completely shifted the approaches to Human Language Technologies. Both approaches, symbolic and statistical based, when duly integrated, bridge the gap between language theories and effective use of languages, and enable important applications. Our aim, with this track, is to bring together innovative contributions to fill in this gap.

The track of Text Mining and Applications is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL), Machine Learning (ML) and related areas.

Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified below. Papers will be blindly reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Best papers will be published at Springer, in LNAI series. If

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there are additional papers whose quality is sufficiently high for

deserving to be presented at TeMA’09, those other accepted papers will be published in a conference proceedings book.

[2] Topics of Interest Text Mining:

- Language Models.

- Multi-word Units.

- Lexical Knowledge Acquisition.

- Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation.

- Semantic Restrictions Extraction.

- Acquisition and Usage of Ontologies in Text Mining.

- Pattern Extraction methodologies.

- Topic Segmentation.

- Word and Multi-word Translation Extraction.

- Sentiment Analysis.

- Text Entailment.

- Document Clustering and Classification.

- Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining.

- Information Extraction.

Applications:

- Natural Language Processing.

- Example-Based/Statistical Machine Translation.

- Automatic Summarization.

- Intelligent Information Retrieval.

- Multilingual access to multilingual information.

- Question-Answering Systems.

- E-training and E-learning.

[3] Important dates

15-April-09: Paper submission deadline 31-May-09: Notification of paper acceptance 15-July-09: Deadline for final versions 12-15 October-2009: Conference dates [4] Paper submission

Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting

instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EPIA2009.

[5] Track Fees:

Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2009 conference. No extra fee shall be paid for attending this track.

[6] Organizing Committee:

Joaquim F. Ferreira da Silva. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. José G. Pereira Lopes. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Gaël Dias. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal.

Vitor R. Rocio. Universidade Aberta, Portugal.

[7] Program Committee:

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd, United Kingdom)

Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

Antoine Doucet (University of Caen, France).

António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Antonio Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA).

Belinda Maia (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Christel Vrain (Université d'Orléans, France).

Eric de La Clergerie (INRIA, France) Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France).

Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).

Gaël Dias (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Guillaume Cleuziou (University of Orléans, France).

Irene Rodrigues. Universidade de Évora, Portugal).

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Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).

Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska (ESIGETEL, France).

Luisa Coheur (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal).

Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain).

Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil).

Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom).

Nuno Mamede (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal).

Nuno Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).

Pablo Gamallo (Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain).

Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain).

Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal).

Pavel Brazdil (University of Porto, Portugal).

Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, France).

Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).

Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia).

Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria).

Vitor Jorge Rocio (Universidade Aberta, Portugal).

Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

[8] Contacts

Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal, Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516

Caparica, PortugalTel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10722 Fax; +351 21 294 8541;

e-mail: gpl [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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