CAASL 2012 - Fourth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages(CAASL4)

Three years after CAASL3, this workshop provides an opportunity for developers and researchers in Academia, the industry, and government to present their work, exchange ideas, and demonstrate systems that focus on the challenging task of dealing with all aspects in natural language processing for languages that use the Arabic script. It also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made since the third workshop in 2009. Authors are invited to submit papers on completed original research and research in progress on any aspect of NLP for the Arabic Script-based languages.
Papers should relate directly or indirectly to the following themes:
Statistical and rule-based machine translation
Translation Aids
Evaluation Methods and Techniques of Machine Translation systems
Localization and multilingual information retrieval systems
Shallow and deep parsing
Data driven approaches
Entity extraction
Tokenization and segmentation
Name matching
Speech synthesis and recognition
Text to speech systems
Semantic analysis
Knowledge Bases
Information retrieval
Semantic web and inferences
Topic Detection and text summarization.
Workshop Chair
Ali Farghaly
Program Chair
Farhard Oroumchian
Workshop Dates and Deadlines
The workshop will be held on Thursday November 1st, 2012 from 9 to 5.
Papers submission deadline: August 1st, 2012
Author notification: August 15, 2012
Camera Ready submissions due: September 7, 2012
Website for submission: https://www.softconf.com/amta2012/CAASL4/
Contact Information: alifarghaly-AT-yahoo.com
Papers must be submitted in pdf. Papers should not exceed 8 pages including references and tables, and should follow the formatting guidelines at http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/CFP.aspx
Papers should present original, previously unpublished or under consideration work.
Papers will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the program committee.
Organizing Committee: Ali Farghaly and Farhard Oroumchian
Tentative Program Committee
Tim Buckwalter -- University of Maryland, USA
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza -- AlAkhawayn University, Moroccoa
Sherri Condon -- MITRE, USA
Aly Fahmy -- Cairo University
Mona Diab -- Columbia University, USA
Joseph Dichy -- Lyon University, France
Andrew Freeman -- University of Washington, USA
Nizar Habash -- Columbia University, USA
Lamia Hadrich Belguith -- University of Sfax, Tunisia
Sarmad Hussain -- CRULP, Pakistan
Mohamed Maamouri -- Linguistics Data Consortium, USA
Farhad Oroumchian -- University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jean Sennellart -- SYSTRAN, France
Khaled Shaalan -- The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ahmed Rafea -- The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Imed Zitouni -- IBM, USA
Azadeh Shakery -- University of Tehran, Iran
Karim Bouzoubaa -- Mohamed Vth Agdal University, Morocco
Abdelhadi Saudi -- École Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco