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Special Issue on Advances in Arabic Language Processing for the International Journal on Information and Communication
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This is a call for papers for a special issue on “Arabic
Language Processing” to be published in June
This special issue is dedicated to substantial
extensions of the high quality papers of the International Conference on Arabic
Language Processing (CITALA 2009) conference papers. It focuses on recent
trends on Arabic language processing in order to reflect the progress made in
this field.
Indeed, the United Nations adopted the Arabic language
as one of its 6 official languages and it is a language spoken by over 300
million people in the world. In addition, Arabic has become a major language
for Human Language Technology. Therefore, we would like to focus on specific issues
that would help citizens living in Arabic countries to have access to
information and technologies (open source resources, dictionaries, search
engines, grammar checkers, etc.) in their mother tongues and therefore discuss
requirements to customize existing technologies. This special issue intends to identify
problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions,
such as sharing of resources, tools, standards, sharing and dissemination of
information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, etc.
We invite papers selected by CITALA 2009 program
committee to submit an extended version of their papers (between 15 and 20 pages)
describing these various aspects of Arabic Language Processing. These papers
are subject to a more careful review by the special issue reviewers committees.
Important Dates
First announcement: 4 May 2009 (during CITALA 2009)
Journal announcement: September 1st 2009
Submission deadline: 30 October 2009
Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2010
Final manuscript due: 15 March 2010
Tentative publication date: June 2010
Submission Guidelines
Papers should be submitted in English and should be
formatted following the style guidelines of IEEE and IJICT (Guidelines). Please submit papers in PDF format
using the web-based submission system (https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=siaalpijict2010).
Please notice that the typical paper length is 15-20 pages.
Guest Editors (Alphabetic order)
Karim Bouzoubaa (Mohammadia School of Engineers,
Morocco), karim.bouzouba@emi.ac.ma
Ali Farghaly (Oracle Coporation & Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Duabi, UAE),
khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae