Welcome to the NEMLAR newsletter. We bring you the latest news on language resources and language technologies for Arabic language in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries and keep you abreast of the results achieved in the project, upcoming events, and other useful information. A version of this newsletter is also available from: http://www.nemlar.org/Newsletter To subscribe, please send an email to: nemlar@cst.dk If you find this newsletter useful and informative, feel free to forward it to others. The newsletter will appear every quarter. Please send any feedback you may have to: nemlar@cst.dk NEMLAR is a European Commission supported initiative dedicated to surveying the state of the art of language resources for the Arabic language and the needs for such resources - in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter Content ------------------ 1. Survey results on existing institutions and Language Resources 2. New language resources, books, papers, software and journals 3. Upcoming Events 4. How to contribute to the NEMLAR network 5. Links 1. Survey results on existing institutions and Language Resources ****************************************************************** The NEMLAR project consists of 14 partners from 9 different countries: Egypt, Tunisia, West Bank & Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, The Netherlands, France, and Denmark. For the last six months the NEMLAR project has surveyed existing institutions involved in the development of Arabic and language resources in the partners' countries. The aim is to collect some basic information about institutions and companies involved in HLT and Arabic Language Resources in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries. The list of identified institutions, companies and persons is listed at http://www.nemlar.org/Publications Please visit the list and in case there are gaps help us to fill them in by submitting a survey questionnaire which you will find at http://www.nemlar.org/Survey-questionnaires The survey has also identified a large number of Arabic resources in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries. The list can be seen at http://www.nemlar.org/Publications . Please visit the list and in case there are gaps help us to fill them in by submitting a survey questionnaire which you will find at http://www.nemlar.org/Survey-questionnaires ********************************************************************* 2. New language resources, books, papers, software and journals *************************************************************** New language resources: • Arabic-Dutch and Dutch-Arabic dictionaries have been published by the department of Arabic at the University of Nijmegen. For more information see http://www.let.kun.nl/WBA/ • A new corpus for "Multiple-Translation Arabic" is now available. For more information see http://www.nemlar.org/corpora.html New books: • Ambiguity in Arabic, 1st edition 2003 Wael Publishing House Jordan. • Semantic Change: Between Ambiguity and Forms and Examples, 1st edition 2003 Dar Al-Kutub Al-Ilmiyah Beirut, Lebanon. For more information see http://www.al-ilmiyah.com Paper: • Read the paper about "An implementation for Arabic Text to Speech System", http://www.nemlar.org/Publications/ARAB-TALK-RDI.doc Software: • RDI's Arabic TTS system "ArabTalk", version 2 is now on the market. For more information see http://www.rdi-eg.com/rdi/research/arabtalk.asp Journals: • Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition (JALT) has just been launched. For more information see http://www.jalt.net • New issue of Language and Linguistics, Theme: The Morpho-syntax of Chamito-semitic Languages (Part II). For more information see www.nemlar.org/language&linguistics.txt Visit the NEMLAR web site for more information: http://www.nemlar.org ********************************************************************* 3. Upcoming Events ****************** • The Arabization of Sciences, March 17th to 20th, 2004 organized by the "The Egyptian Society for Science Arabization" Secretary general: Prof. Muhammad Younus Al-Hamalawy, Office tel. of the society: +20-2-632 1 465, Fax: +20-2-63 77 44 6, Address: 5 Sulayman Abaza st., 2nd district, Heliopolis, Cairo. See for more information http://www.taareeb.org Please note: the site is written in Arabic and needs Arabic enabled Windows to view it. • The Arabic Linguistic society conference, The University of Oklahoma, March 19-20 2004 • International Conference on Discourse Analysis, Call for papers, March 26-28 2004, Kuwait. See for more information http://www.nemlar.org/Events/kuwait.txt • TALN ´04 Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel, Fes, Morocco, 19- 22 April 2004, Call for papers and for more information http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/ • EAMT 2004, 20-22 April 2004, Malta, having a workshop on machine translation and other issues relating to Semitic languages. See for more information http://www.eamt.org/eamt04/ • The first joint international conference on Arabic Call for papers to language and linguistics, Oxford, July 30-31 2004. Call for papers to and for more information http://www.nemlar.org/Events/oxford.txt ********************************************************************* 4. How to contribute to the NEMLAR network ****************************************** If you wish to contribute to the work of the NEMLAR project you may fill in the survey questionnaire about your language resources and/or the industry needs for language resources. Visit the NEMLAR web site in order to answer the survey questionnaire: http://www.nemlar.org/Survey-questionnaires ********************************************************************* 5. Links ******** • Visit the Linguist List related to Arabic language: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/arabic-l.html • List of pointers to Arabic and other Semitic NLP and Speech sites: http://www.elsnet.org/arabiclist.html • Lists of websites with theses dealing with Arabic human language technologies http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/these/#Idx3 http://www.technolangue.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to: nemlar@cst.dk This newsletter is published by the NEMLAR project (http://www.nemlar.org) and produced by Center for Sprogteknologi. To contact the project co-ordinator: Center for Sprogteknologi (CST) Project Co-ordinator: Bente Maegaard Tel: +45 35 32 90 74, Fax: +45 35 32 90 89 email: nemlar@cst.dk