ACL02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

[MIKE ROSNER <mros1@cs.um.edu.mt>]

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Mike Rosner
CSAI Dept
University of Malta
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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
First Call for Papers

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

ACL-2002
University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 11 July, 2002

This workshop is a sequel to the workshop on Computational Approaches
to Semitic Languages that was held at COLING98 in Montreal. Since that
time, there have been various other workshops, but these have mostly
turned out to be either rather applications-oriented, or rather
language specific, or both. Whilst not neglecting applications, the
present workshop aims to attract submissions that contribute
significantly to theoretical insights concerning computational
frameworks underlying the processing of Semitic languages in
general. Morphology and/or phonology would seem to be promising areas
of investigation in this sense. An effort will also be made to
highlight submissions that concern a representative set of
languages. 

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): 

-  Orthographic Representation 
-  Morphological/Phonological Models 
-  Speech Applications 
-  Syntax, Parsing and Generation 
-  Semantics 
-  Acquisition of Language Resources 
-  Corpora 
-  Use of Machine Learning Techniques 
-  Multilingual / Mixed Language Applications 
-  Information Retrieval and Extraction 

Program Committee

  Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair), mike.rosner@um.edu.mt 
  Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa, Israel (co-chair), shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il 
  Ken Beesley, XRCE, France, ken.beesley@xrce.xerox.com
  Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR Software, Cairo, Egypt, ac@sakhr.com 
  Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel, yco636sc@netvision.net.il 
  Anne De Roeck, Open University, UK, A.DeRoeck@open.ac.uk 
  Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, US, evens@iit.edu 
  Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta, rfab1@um.edu.mt 
  Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia, ghazali@irsit.rnrt.tn 
  Alon Itai, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, itai@cs.technion.ac.il 
  Steven Krauwer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl 
  Mounira Loughraieb, University of Nancy 2, France, 
  mounira.loughraieb@clsh.univ-nancy2.fr 
  Chadia Moghrabi, University of Moncton, mograc@umoncton.ca 
  Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan, myaseen@cbj.gov.jo 
  Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University, US, rzajac@crl.nmsu.edu 
  Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia, adn@gnet.tn 

Important dates

  February 24, 2002: Deadline for submissions 
  April 7, 2002: Notification of acceptance 
  May 1, 2002: Final version due 
  July 11, 2002: Workshop date 

Home Page and Further Details

  http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/WSL