News

• 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.