Special Session On Arabic Language Processing Call for paper

  • The Arabic language is getting more and more interest among the NLP com-munity due to its specificities that make many of the well known techniques not so forwardly applicable on it. Some of these specificities are its complexwords morphology, rich vocabulary and well studied and complicated syntax rules. Moreover, Arabic language is still an open challenge for many computingsubfields. This session comes to gather investigators on the computerization of the Arabic language texts in its different levels: morphological, syntactical andsemantic ones.


    • Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include:

  • * Arabic Words Morphology Analysis,
  • * Arabic Corpora,
  • * Arabic Sentences Parsing,
  • * Semantic Extraction,
  • * Semantic Relatedness
  • * Arabic Text Summarizing,
  • * Entity Detection in Arabic Texts,
  • * Information Retrieval,
  • * Machine Translation from and to Arabic,
  • * Arabic Text Compression,
  • * Arabic Text Categorization,

    • Important Dates:


  • Abstract Submission due: April 20th, 2009
  • Abstract Notification: May 25th, 2009
  • Camera Ready Submission: May 20th, 2009
  • Acceptance Notification: July 15th, 2009
  • Early Registration: August 15th, 2009


  • All abstracts and full papers must be in English, and provide sufficient detailsto allow the organizing committee and the advisory board assessing the paper merits. At least, one author of each accepted paper will be expected to registerand attend the session. The papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, but may contain previously published material. Shortabstracts and full papers must be submitted electronically to Ahmed Khorsi (ahmed khorsi@mail2engineer.com).

  • Formats Abstracts and full papers must be submitted either in .doc or .pdf format.However, the sources of accepted papers must be submitted in either MS Word or LATEX.It is highly recommended to use the IEEEtran style for latex writers and IEEEtran template for MS Word users. Both are downloadable from http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html