======================================================= Second Call for Papers and Participation EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction Apologies for multiple postings Please distribute to colleagues ======================================================= Second Call for Papers and Participation Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014 Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014 Shared task registration deadline: July 1, 2014 Workshop Website: emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/call.html Shared Task Website: emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html ======================================================= WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the Arab World and in association with international conferences. This workshop follows in the footsteps of previous efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: * Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. Submissions are expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error correction (details below). SHARED TASK As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014, we will conduct a shared task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction. We designed this task in the traditions of high profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as CONLL?s grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013 and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR, among others. The task relies on resources created under the Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of manually corrected Arabic text). A participating system in this shared task will be given Modern Standard Arabic texts, which are to be automatically corrected. The input will be provided in Arabic script, and will be annotated for part-of-speech (in different granularities), inflectional features, clitics (which appear in 20% of Arabic words), lemmas, and English glosses. All of the input text will be preprocessed in a common way to make sure all participants have access to all of these features at no additional overhead novelty cost. We follow the file format and evaluation framework used by the CONLL shared tasks on error correction. The task is focused on correction as opposed to identification. There will not be an error identification task per se. Participants need to register. Once registered, all participating teams will be provided with a common training data set, which includes common preprocessed input and corrected output. Registration link is on the Shared Task Website (see above). A common development set will also be provided. A blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. An evaluation script will be provided to all the teams. Each participating team can submit up to three systems. Participants are welcome to use additional resources and tools that are not part of the released data set. However, all such additions must be fully disclosed. Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2 for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments. The paper needs to follow the standard format of EMNLP conference. IMPORTANT DATES Shared task registration period: April 8, 2014 through July 1, 2014 Shared task test release: July 7, 2014 Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014 Submission deadline (Workshop and shared task papers): July 26, 2014 Author notification: August 26, 2014 Camera Ready: September 15, 2014 Workshop: October 25, 2014 ORGANIZERS Program Co-chairs Nizar Habash, Columbia University Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute Publication Co-chairs Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Website Committee Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute Noura Farra, Columbia University Shared Task Committee Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University Program Committee Members Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco Abdelsalam Nwesri, University of Tripoli, Libya Achraf Chalabi , Microsoft Research, Egypt Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Ahmed Rafea, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille, France Ali Farghaly, Monterey Peninsula College, USA Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran, Iran Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong, Australia Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Lebanon Hassan Sawaf, eBay Inc., USA Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA Joseph Dichy, Université Lyon 2, France Karim Bouzoubaa , Mohammad V University, Morocco Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, USA Katrin Kirchhoff, University of Washington, USA Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Qatar Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar Khalil Sima’an, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta Mohamed Elmahdy, Qatar University, Qatar Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt Mona Diab, George Washington University, USA Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France Ossama Emam, IBM, USA Otakar Smrž, Džám-e Džam Language Institute, Czech Republic Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Ramzi Abbes, TECHLIMED, France Salwa Hamada, Cairo University, Egypt Shahram Khadivi, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran Sherri Condon , The MITRE Corporation, USA Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
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