International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (CITALA'09)

Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI) and the Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization (IERA) are organizing the third edition of the International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (CITALA'09). CITALA is the only regular event on Arabic Language Processing in the Maghreb region.

Call for Papers: The aim of this Conference is to gather studies, achievements and experiences from scholars working on Arabic language processing in order to map the progress made in this field. A special session will also be organized to enable resource mobilization and identification of partnerships for future collaborative participator project cooperation. High-level partner institutions will be invited to network with participants.

Topics: Communications (30 minutes, including question time), could address the following Arabic Language Processing topics (non limitative list):

-Lexicon: databases including linguistic resources (phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantics)

-Design, use, standardization and normalization of linguistic resources (Arabic corpora, Arabic lexicon, anthologies, etc.)

-Use of linguistic resources in Arabic NLP applications

-Automatic generation and parsing of morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.

-Evaluation and benchmarking of resources, applications and Arabic NLP products

-Exploitation of Arabic NLP in industrial applications

-Automatic tagging of Arabic texts

-Automatic machine translation

-Optical character recognition

-Document retrieval, information searching and retrieving, search engines, and questions/answering systems

-Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for local, regional and international activities, projects and collaborative participatory cooperation

Submission: Authors are invited to submit papers using IEEE Standard template download from the conference website). The submitted articles should not exceed 10 pages. Each paper will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted articles will be published in the proceedings of this meeting and could be proposed for publication in an IEEE journal. Articles should be submitted in electronic MS Word format to both of the following addresses: citala2009@emi.ac.ma, citala2009@iera.ac.ma.

By submitting a paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register for the conference and present the paper.

Institute for studies and Research on Arabization