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Cooperation Roadmap between Arabic and European Union countries. Read the full version or the short version

Medar MT Evaluation on English-to-Arabic
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Join the new NEMLAR Network group in LinkedIn

You can now find the very first version of the online BLARK for Arabic

The MEDAR consortium has has given an interview to
Al Jazeera on August 18 2009.
See the interview here (in WMV-format) or (in MPG-format)


Coming Events:

  • TSD 2010
    Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
    Brno, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2010


  • IMCSIT 2010
    International Multiconferenc on Computer Science and Information Technology
    Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010


  • Workshop:
    Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10)
    Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010


  • PaIR'10
    3rd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval
    October 26, 2010
    Toronto, Canada (co-located with CIKM 2010)


  • W3C is organizing the Workshop:
    The Multilingual Web - Where Are We?
    26-27 October 2010, Madrid, Spain


  • MICS'10 International Conference on Models of Information and Communication Systems
    2 - 4 November, 2010
    ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco

  • Uses and Users for Parallel Corpora in the Translation Process (workshop)
    Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)
    in conjunction with the American Translators Association Conference
    November 4-5, 2010 Denver, Colorado


  • CALL FOR COMPETITION:
    ICFHR2010 Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition
    November 16-18, 2010
    Kolkata, INDIA


  • ASLIB - Translating and the Computer 32 Conference
    18-19 November 2010 in London


  • International Workshop on Web Mining and Information Retrieval (WMIR2010)
    Under the framework of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Design and Applications, ISDA'10
    November 29 - December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt


  • The fourth International Arabic Linguistics Symposium
    Alexandria University, Egypt December 11-12, 2010.
    Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to mustafa.mughazy@wmich.edu

  • ACIT'2010
    The International Arab Conference on Information Technology
    University of Garyounis, Benghazi, Libya
    December 14-16, 2010


  • Tenth Conference on Language Engineering (ESOLEC'10)
    16-17, December 2010,
    Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.


  • Call for papers:
    ICMCS'11 - IEEE co-sponsored Conference
    2nd International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
    Ouarzazate- Morocco, April 7-9, 2011.
    Submission deadline: November 10, 2010



Other News:

  • 19/7 2010:
    The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
    The EASC contains 153 Arabic articles and 765 human-generated extractive summaries of those articles. These summaries were generated using Mechanical Turk.
    It can be downloaded free of charge for research purposes.

  • 19/7 2010:
    LDC Standard Arabic Morphological Analyzer (SAMA) Version 3.1 is now available from the LDC catalog (for members).

  • 19/7 2010:
    NIST 2004 Open Machine Translation (OpenMT) Evaluation, a package containing source data, reference translations, and scoring software used in the NIST 2004 OpenMT evaluation, can be obtained from LDC.

  • 20/4 2010:
    LDC has created detailed guidelines for manual word alignment in Chinese-English and Arabic-English, for the DARPA GALE program. Corpora developed under these guidelines will be published in LDC's catalog in the coming months.
    See the alignment guidelines for Arabic here.

  • 15/4 2010:
    Call for Contributions for a Special Issue of MT Journal
    Special Issue on: Machine Translation for Arabic
    Submission Guidelines:
    • Contributors must send a "Submission Intent" email message to
    • habash@ccls.columbia.edu no later than May 1, 2010.
    • Contributions will be accepted starting May 1, 2010 through June 15, 2010.

    • Special Issue Guest Co-Editors:
      Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
      Hany Hassan (Microsoft Research)

  • 15/4 2010:
    Tashaphyne : Arabic Light Stemming and segmentor. API for python
    Features
    • Arabic word Light Stemming
    • Root Extraction
    • Word Segmentation
    • Word normalization
    • Default Arabic Affixes list

  • 3/3 2010:
    Call for Participants
    Dr. John Andrew Morrow and Barbara Castleton are currently conducting research on the impact of Global English on the Arabic Language.
    Native-speakers of Arabic, who are also proficient in English, are kindly invited to complete the online survey

  • 20/1 2010:
    ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
    Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
    Volume 8 , Issue 4 (December 2009), table of contents

  • 4/1 2010:
    Arabic Gigaword Fourth Edition, a comprehensive archive of Arabic newswire text that has been acquired over several years at LDC.

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ARABIC-L List
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/arabic-l.html

See also the Elsnet calendar


MEDAR is supported by the European Commission's ICT programme and is running from
February 1st 2008 until July 31st 2010

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