Welcome to the NEMLAR newsletter. We bring you the latest news on language resources and language technologies for Arabic in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries and keep you informed about 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 approximately four times per year. Please send any feedback you may have to: nemlar@cst.dk NEMLAR was a European Commission supported initiative from 2003 to 2005. NEMLAR was dedicated to surveying the state of the art of language resources for the Arabic language and the needs for such resources, to providing a BLARK specification for Arabic and to promote the development of Arabic language resources - in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries. Some of the work from the project will be continued: project web site, newsletter and updates of survey results and the BLARK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter Content ------------------ 1. The NEMLAR Arabic Language Resources 2. Updated version of the Arabic BLARK 3. New language resources, books, papers, software and journals 4. Upcoming Events 5. New Links 1. The NEMLAR Arabic Language Resources *************************************** The following resources produced within the NEMLAR project may be purchased from ELRA, http://www.elra.info • The NEMLAR Arabic Written Corpus • The NEMLAR Arabic Broadcast News Speech Corpus • The NEMLAR Arabic Speech synthesis Corpus 2. Updated version of the Arabic BLARK *************************************** The report on Basic Language Resource Kit (BLARK) has been slightly updated. The new updated versions of the reports may be found at http://www.nemlar.org/ 3. New language resources, books, papers, software and journals *************************************************************** Language resources •OrienTel Egypt MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) database. For more information see http://catalog.elda.org:8080/product_info.php?products_id=877&osCsid=adccb3acdf2fd06d14094097c854b0da • OrienTel Egypt MCA (Modern Colloquial Arabic) database. For more information see http://catalog.elda.org:8080/product_info.php?products_id=876&osCsid=adccb3acdf2fd06d14094097c854b0da Software: • Machine Translation, Desktop Publishing, OCR, NLP etc.For further information see http://www.aramedia.com/apptek.htm Visit the NEMLAR web site for more information: http://www.nemlar.org 4. Upcoming Events ******************** Events with a focus on Arabic ***************************** • Arabic NLP/MT Conference, October 23 2006, London. For more information see http://www.bcs-mt.org.uk/ • International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES'06). 5-7 November 2006, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. For more information http://www.iceec.org • TAPA 2006: Treebanking and Advanced Processing of Arabic, November 30, 2006 Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic For more information see http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/padt/TAPA2006 • Sixth Conference on Language Engineering, 6 - 7 December 2006 For more information see http://www.asueng.eun.eg/else • The 1st International Conference on Digital Communications and Computer Applications (DCCA2007), March 19-22, 2007 Irbid, Jordan. For more information see http://www.cis.just.edu.jo/dcca2007 • Twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, March 2-3, 2007, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah Other Events ************* • Web Content Mining with Human Language Technologies, workshop at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, November 5-9 2006, Athens, GA, U.S.A. For more information see http://orestes.ii.uam.es/workshop • OnToContent 2006 -Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise - With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources-In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '06),3-4 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France For more information http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent06 • Translating and the Computer 28: Conference, 16-17 November 2006, London. For more information see http://www.aslib.com/conferences • CI 2006 Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Real Life Applications, November 20-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA For more information http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~cmueller/ci06 • IEEE First International conference on digital information management, December 6 - 8 2006, Christ College, Bangalore, India. For more information see http://www.icdim.org • Beyond the Orient: The Research Challenges Ahead”21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL2006),December 17-19, 2006, Singapore. For more information see http://www.iccpol-06.org • New approaches to machine translation - a METIS-II workshop, January 11th 2007 Leuven, Belgium For more information see http://ccl.kuleuven.be/ws-metis • RANLP 07 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING September 23-29 2007, SAMOKOV hotel, Borovets, Bulgaria. For more information see http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 • See also the Elsnet calendar http://www.elsnet.org/ Visit the NEMLAR web site for more information http://www.nemlar.org/Events 5. New Links ************ • Links to Arabic verb conjugator http://acon.baykal.be/ • ELSNET- look under Arabic and find many links to linguistic resources, software, projects etc. http://www.elsnet.org/ • Arabic Information and Retrieval and Computational Linguistics Resources http://www.glue.umd.edu/~dlrg/clir/arabic.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is published by the NEMLAR (http://www.nemlar.org) and produced by Center for Sprogteknologi. To contact the co-ordinator: Center for Sprogteknologi (CST), University of Copenhagen Co-ordinator: Bente Maegaard Tel: +45 35 32 90 74, Fax: +45 35 32 90 89 email: nemlar@cst.dk