News

• ACSE 2010
  The Sixth IASTED International Conference
  on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering
  March 15-17, 2010
  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
  
  
• CICLing-2010
  11th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
  March 21-27, 2010
  Iasi, Romania
  
  
• INFOS 2010
  The 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems
  28-30 March, 2010, Cairo, EGYPT
  Special Track on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Mining
  
  
• Call for papers
  LREC 2010 - The 7th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Valetta (Malta) on May 17-23, 2010.
  
  
• Call for papers
  Workshop on Language Resources (LRs) and Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages - Status, Updates, and Prospects
  To be held in conjunction with LREC 2010
  17 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valetta, Malta
  Deadline for submission: Monday 26 February 2010
  
  
• Call for papers:
  Language Resources: From Storyboard to Sustainability and LR Lifecycle Management
  Deadline for abstracts: Monday 22 February 2010
  To be held in conjunction with the 7th International
  Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010)
  23 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta
  
  
• Call for papers:
  International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010)
  Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter
  28-30 June, 2010, London, UK
  
  
• 6th International Computing Conference in Arabic
  May 20-21, 2010
  Hammamet, Tunisia
  
  
• 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
  
  
• CALL FOR COMPETITION:
  ICFHR2010 Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition
  November 16-18, 2010
  Kolkata, INDIA
  Deadline for submission of systems: March 01, 2010
  
  

Other News:

• 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.
  
  
• 11/11 2009:
  Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 5
  
  
• 8/11 2009:
  Meedan Releases the World's First Open Access Arabic/English Translation Memory.
  For more info
  
  
• 22/10 2009:
  A new version of the Crescent Quran Corpus is now freely available online. The corpus contains both morphological and syntactic annotation of the Quran in Arabic. Previous releases of the corpus focused on the morphology of Classical Arabic, but this new release now includes an in-progress syntactic treebank of the Quran.
  
  
• 5/8 2009:
  Semantic Deviation in the Arabic MT'ed English Text; Symptoms & Effects Paper Arabic. by Dr. Ahmed Ragheb Ahmed; RDI.
  Arab World for Publishing & Distribution-Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum foundation-UAE, July 2009.
  
  
• 5/8 2009:
  New Book on Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax by Mohammad T. Alhawary
  Yale University Press (April 2009)
  See description
  
  
• 1/8 2009:
  New Book on Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. Edited by Jonathan Owens, Alaa Elgibali. See description at Routledge.