Arabic NLP 2014 - Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop

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, e.g., the conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR-2009, NEMLAR-2004), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (LREC 2010, EACL 2009, ACL 2007, ACL 2005, ACL 2002, ACL 1998), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (MTSummit XII 2009, LSA 2007, COLING 2004), the International Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language (ISCAL 2009, ISCAL 2007), the Colloque International sur le Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe (CITALA 2007), the International Symposium on Processing of Arabic (Tunisia 2002), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), and the workshop on Arabic Language Processing (ACL -2001), among others. This workshop proposal follows in the footsteps of these efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work. This workshop is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP in the Arab World and the West.
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.