News

• Call for Papers:
  5th. International Conference on Information Systems and Economic Intelligence
  16-18 February 2012
  Djerba (Tunisia)
  
  
  
• Call for Papers:
  V International Congress on Moroccan Arabic: From Orality towards Teaching
  27-28 April, 2012
  Casa Árabe, Madrid (Spain) (www.casaarabe.es)
  Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2011
  
  
  
• Call for Papers:
  4rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing CITALA'12
  2-3 May, 2012
  Rabat, Morocco
  
  
  
• LREC 2012
  The 8th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference May 21-27, 2012
  Istanbul (Turkey)
  
  
  
• Call for Papers:
  International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages
  5-7 August 2012
  Kivik, Sweden
  Dead-line for abstracts: 2 May 2012
  
  
  

Other News:

• 18/11 2010:
  NIST 2008 Open Machine Translation (OpenMT) Evaluation is a package containing source data, reference translations and scoring software used in the NIST 2008 OpenMT evaluation.
  The 2008 task was among other to evaluate translation from Arabic to English.
  
  
• 18/11 2010:
  Arabic Treebank Part 1 v 4.1 from LDC.
  ATB1 v 4.1 contains a total of 145,386 tokens before clitics are split and is annotated with part-of-speech , morphology, gloss and syntactic treebank annotation.
  
  
• "Khaleej-2004" and "watan-2004"
  - two Arabic corpora for text categorization and topic identification.
  
  
• 18/10 2010
  NIST 2006 Open Machine Translation (OpenMT) Evaluation, a package containing source data, reference translations and scoring software used in the NIST 2006 OpenMT evaluation, can be obtained from LDC.
  
  
• 11/10 2010:
  New book by Nizar Y. Habash: Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing
  
  
• 02/10 2010:
  The first multilingual summary evaluation data in seven languages (Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish) is available for research and evaluation purposes.
  You can download the set from EC Joint Research Centre (JRC)