The First International Workshop on
Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2017)
Held in parallel with
14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017
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Hammamet, Tunisia
Oct 30 - Nov 3, 2017
Call for Papers
Scope
02 Nov 2017
Arabic is one of the fastest growing languages on the Internet in terms of both content and speakers. Due to the commercial and strategic importance of the Arabic language, the past few decades have seen a significant rise in the interest in the field of Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP). This is evident in the number of conferences, conference tracks, workshops, special issues of journals dedicated to ANLP or issues related to ANLP. Another indication of this growing interest is the surge of papers, books, and other forms of publications related to ANLP. Realizing the importance of fostering the development of ANLP, IP&M has dedicated a special issue to this important field. Researchers are invited to submit their best work to this special issue.
Important Dates
Paper submission due date: July 1, 2017
Notification to Authors: August 1, 2017
Camera Ready paper due: August 15, 2017
Workshops Date: November 2, 2017
Submission Details
The manuscript should follow IEEE Computer Society's two-column format. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including tables, figures, and references.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the official submission system.
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All papers submitted to DSC'2017 will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in an IEEE proceedings volume of the AICCSA'2017 workshops.
Topics
The topics include, but are not limited to the following:
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Morphological analysis.
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Tokenization, segmentation, chunking, parsing, etc.
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Part-of-speech tagging.
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Stemming.
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Information retrieval and extraction.
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Text mining.
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Big data analytics.
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ANLP interoperability.
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Social media analysis.
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Named Entity Recognition.
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Word Sense Disambiguation.
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Keyword extraction.
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Text summarization and compression.
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Authorship analysis.
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Event extraction.
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Semantic role labeling.
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Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
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Topic modelling.
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Language and dialect modeling.
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Automatic machine translation.
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Speech recognition.
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Speech synthesis
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Speaker identification.
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Acoustic modelling.
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Phonetic dictionaries
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Optical character recognition.
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Pedagogy.
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Assistive technologies.
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ANLP (annotated) resources such as dictionaries, thesauri, lexicons, ontologies, datasets, etc.
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Commercial applications of ANLP.
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Submissions must address issues related to the processing of Arabic data in any of its versions (classic, Quranic, modern standard, dialectal, etc.) and any of its formats (text, audio, multimodality, etc.). Authors must consider reproducibility issues. I.e., they must provide enough details about their work such that other researchers are able to repeat their experiments and reproduce the same results. This is of special importance for both work-in-progress and commercial applications.
Important Dates
Paper submission due date: July 1, 2017 July 15, 2017 (Firm)
Notification to Authors: August 1, 2017
Camera Ready paper due: August 15, 2017
Workshops Date: November 2, 2017
Submission Details
Instructions:​
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The manuscript should follow IEEE Computer Society's two-column format. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including tables, figures, and references.
Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline via the official submission system: ANLP2017 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=anlp2017)
All papers submitted to ANLP'2017 will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in an IEEE proceedings volume of the AICCSA'2017 workshops.
Committee
Workshop Chairs
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Prof. Ashraf Elnagar, University of Sharjah, UAE.
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Ayoub, JUST, Jordan.