ابراهيم ابويه
11/12/2008, 01:49 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS - CITALA’09
3rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing
http://www.emi.ac.ma/citala2009, http://www.iera.ac.ma/citala2009
May 4th – 5th 2009, Rabat, Morocco
Chairs
Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Rabat, Morocco
Abdelfettah Hamdani, Institute for studies and
Research on Arabization, Rabat, Morocco
Scientific Committee
Abdelmajid BenHamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn Univesity,
Morocco
Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr, Egypt
Noureddine Chenfour, S.M. BenAbdellah University,
Morocco
Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA
Joseph Dichy, Lyon-2 university, France
Saïd El Hassani, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Abdelhamid El Jihad, Institute for studies and
Research on Arabisation, Morocco
Toufik El Yazidi, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Kais Haddar, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Mohamed Hassoun, Ecole nationale supérieure des
sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques,
France
Abderrahim Jamari, Sultan Kabous University, Oman
Mohamed-Zakaria Kurdi, Mamoun University for
Science and Technology, Syria
Med Tayeb Laskri, Laboratoire de Recherches en
Informatique, Algeria
Azzeddine Lazrek, Cadi Ayad University, Morocco
Abdelilah Maach, Mohammadia School of Engineers,
Morocco
Abdelwafi Meziane, Mohamed 1st University,
Morocco
Abdelhak Mouradi, Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes, Morocco
Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia,
Spain
Abdelaziz Sdigui Doukkali, Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des
Systèmes, Morocco
Mokhtar Sellami, Laboratoire de Recherches en
Informatique, Algeria
Nasredine Semmar, Laboratoire d’Ingénieries de la
Connaissances Multimédia Multilingue, France
Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai, UAE
Adnane Yahya, Birzeit University, Palestine
Abdellah Yousfi, Mohamed Vth University Souissi,
Morocco
Organizing Committee
Lhoussain Aouragh, Mohamed 1st University,
Morocco
Lahcen Abouennour, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Noureddine Bensalah, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Driss El Ghanami, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Abdellah El Hadri, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Saïd El Hassani, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Abdelhamid El Jihad, Institute for studies and
Research on Arabisation, Morocco
Ouafa El Oinzioui, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Toufik El Yazidi, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Abderrahim Hasbi, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Abdelilah Maach, Mohammadia School of Engineers,
Morocco
Abdellah Yousfi, Mohamed Vth University Souissi,
Morocco
About the event
After the success of the first and second editions of the conference (JETALA’06 and CITALA’07),
Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI) and the Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization
(IERA) are organizing the third edition of the International Conference on Arabic Language
Processing (CITALA’09). CITALA is the only regular event on Arabic Language Processing in the
Maghreb region.
CITALA’09 conference will be held in the Mohammadia School of Engineers (Rabat, Morocco) in
May 2009. CITALA'09 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference.
The aim of this Conference is to gather studies, achievements and experiences from scholars
working on Arabic language processing in order to map the progress made in this field. A special
session will also be organized to enable resource mobilization and identification of partnerships for
future collaborative participatory project cooperation. High level partner institutions will be invited to
network with participants.
Topics
Communications (30 minutes, including question time), could address the following Arabic
Language Processing topics (non limitative list):
Lexicon: data bases including linguistic resources (phonological, morphological, syntactic, and
semantics)
Design, use, standardization and normalization of linguistic resources (Arabic corpora, Arabic
Lexicon, Anthologies, etc.)
Use of linguistic resources in Arabic NLP applications
Automatic generation and parsing of morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
Evaluation and benchmarking of resources, applications and Arabic NLP products
Resources for the evaluation of applications for the written and spoken Arabic language
Exploitation of Arabic NLP in Industrial applications
Automatic Tagging of Arabic Texts
Text Briefing
Automatic Machine Translation
Optical Character Recognition
Documents Retrieval, information searching and retrieving, search engines, and
questions/answering systems
Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for local, regional and international activities, projects
and collaborative participatory cooperation
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers using IEEE Standard template (to download from the
conference web site). The submitted articles should not exceed 10 pages. Each paper will be
evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Accepted articles will be published in the proceedings of this meeting and could be proposed for
publication in an IEEE Journal. Articles should be submitted in electronic MS Word format to both
following addresses: citala2009@emi.ac.ma, citala2009@iera.ac.ma. By submitting a paper,
authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the
paper.
Deadlines
Paper submission: February 15, 2009
Notification of acceptation: Mars 27, 2009
Final version submission: April 3, 2009
Conference: May 4 – 5, 2009
Additional Information
Prof. Karim Bouzoubaa
karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma
Mohammadia School of Engineers
Avenue Ibn Sina B.P. 765 - Agdal
Rabat, Morocco
Tél. : + 212 37 68 71 50
Fax : + 212 37 77 88 53
www.emi.ac.ma
Prof. Abdelfettah Hamdani
hamdani@iera.ac.ma
Institute for studies and Research on Arabization
Rabat-Institut, B-P 6216,
Rabat, Morocco
Tél. : + 212 37 77 30 05
Fax : + 212 37 77 20 65
www.iera.ac.ma
3rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing
http://www.emi.ac.ma/citala2009, http://www.iera.ac.ma/citala2009
May 4th – 5th 2009, Rabat, Morocco
Chairs
Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Rabat, Morocco
Abdelfettah Hamdani, Institute for studies and
Research on Arabization, Rabat, Morocco
Scientific Committee
Abdelmajid BenHamadou, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn Univesity,
Morocco
Achraf Chalabi, Sakhr, Egypt
Noureddine Chenfour, S.M. BenAbdellah University,
Morocco
Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA
Joseph Dichy, Lyon-2 university, France
Saïd El Hassani, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Abdelhamid El Jihad, Institute for studies and
Research on Arabisation, Morocco
Toufik El Yazidi, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Kais Haddar, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Mohamed Hassoun, Ecole nationale supérieure des
sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques,
France
Abderrahim Jamari, Sultan Kabous University, Oman
Mohamed-Zakaria Kurdi, Mamoun University for
Science and Technology, Syria
Med Tayeb Laskri, Laboratoire de Recherches en
Informatique, Algeria
Azzeddine Lazrek, Cadi Ayad University, Morocco
Abdelilah Maach, Mohammadia School of Engineers,
Morocco
Abdelwafi Meziane, Mohamed 1st University,
Morocco
Abdelhak Mouradi, Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes, Morocco
Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia,
Spain
Abdelaziz Sdigui Doukkali, Ecole Nationale
Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des
Systèmes, Morocco
Mokhtar Sellami, Laboratoire de Recherches en
Informatique, Algeria
Nasredine Semmar, Laboratoire d’Ingénieries de la
Connaissances Multimédia Multilingue, France
Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai, UAE
Adnane Yahya, Birzeit University, Palestine
Abdellah Yousfi, Mohamed Vth University Souissi,
Morocco
Organizing Committee
Lhoussain Aouragh, Mohamed 1st University,
Morocco
Lahcen Abouennour, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Noureddine Bensalah, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Driss El Ghanami, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Abdellah El Hadri, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Saïd El Hassani, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Abdelhamid El Jihad, Institute for studies and
Research on Arabisation, Morocco
Ouafa El Oinzioui, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Toufik El Yazidi, Institute for studies and Research
on Arabisation, Morocco
Abderrahim Hasbi, Mohammadia School of
Engineers, Morocco
Abdelilah Maach, Mohammadia School of Engineers,
Morocco
Abdellah Yousfi, Mohamed Vth University Souissi,
Morocco
About the event
After the success of the first and second editions of the conference (JETALA’06 and CITALA’07),
Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI) and the Institute for Studies and Research on Arabization
(IERA) are organizing the third edition of the International Conference on Arabic Language
Processing (CITALA’09). CITALA is the only regular event on Arabic Language Processing in the
Maghreb region.
CITALA’09 conference will be held in the Mohammadia School of Engineers (Rabat, Morocco) in
May 2009. CITALA'09 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference.
The aim of this Conference is to gather studies, achievements and experiences from scholars
working on Arabic language processing in order to map the progress made in this field. A special
session will also be organized to enable resource mobilization and identification of partnerships for
future collaborative participatory project cooperation. High level partner institutions will be invited to
network with participants.
Topics
Communications (30 minutes, including question time), could address the following Arabic
Language Processing topics (non limitative list):
Lexicon: data bases including linguistic resources (phonological, morphological, syntactic, and
semantics)
Design, use, standardization and normalization of linguistic resources (Arabic corpora, Arabic
Lexicon, Anthologies, etc.)
Use of linguistic resources in Arabic NLP applications
Automatic generation and parsing of morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
Evaluation and benchmarking of resources, applications and Arabic NLP products
Resources for the evaluation of applications for the written and spoken Arabic language
Exploitation of Arabic NLP in Industrial applications
Automatic Tagging of Arabic Texts
Text Briefing
Automatic Machine Translation
Optical Character Recognition
Documents Retrieval, information searching and retrieving, search engines, and
questions/answering systems
Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for local, regional and international activities, projects
and collaborative participatory cooperation
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers using IEEE Standard template (to download from the
conference web site). The submitted articles should not exceed 10 pages. Each paper will be
evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Accepted articles will be published in the proceedings of this meeting and could be proposed for
publication in an IEEE Journal. Articles should be submitted in electronic MS Word format to both
following addresses: citala2009@emi.ac.ma, citala2009@iera.ac.ma. By submitting a paper,
authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the
paper.
Deadlines
Paper submission: February 15, 2009
Notification of acceptation: Mars 27, 2009
Final version submission: April 3, 2009
Conference: May 4 – 5, 2009
Additional Information
Prof. Karim Bouzoubaa
karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma
Mohammadia School of Engineers
Avenue Ibn Sina B.P. 765 - Agdal
Rabat, Morocco
Tél. : + 212 37 68 71 50
Fax : + 212 37 77 88 53
www.emi.ac.ma
Prof. Abdelfettah Hamdani
hamdani@iera.ac.ma
Institute for studies and Research on Arabization
Rabat-Institut, B-P 6216,
Rabat, Morocco
Tél. : + 212 37 77 30 05
Fax : + 212 37 77 20 65
www.iera.ac.ma