Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
COLING-ACL98
Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal
Final Call for Papers
** Submission Deadline: April 6, 1998 **
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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
* Submission Deadline: April 6, 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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