Special Events

First Special Event

Banquet presentation

Introduction

·        JETALA 2006, CITALA 2007

·        The only regular conference on ALP in Maghreb

·        LREC, COLING, EACL, etc.

·        Aim: the conference of ALP in the world

CITALA 2009

·        Joint effort between

¤     Linguistic institution (IERA)

¤     Engineering school (EMI)

·        IEEE label:

¤     Enhance the level, respect international standards, etc.

¤     Reviewing process by international experts from both academia and industry

¤     Oral presentations are evaluated

¤     For the first time, a best paper award is delivered using the reviewers and the oral presentation recommendations

¤     Selected papers would be evaluated for a special issue in the IEEE journal "IEEE Transactions on, AUDIO, SPEECH & LANGUAGE PROCESSING"

CITALA 2009 Statistics

·        56 Submissions

·        24 Accepted Papers (42 %)

 

¤     Resources: 7           

¤     Morphology: 4

¤     Syntax: 4

¤     Total: 15

 

¤     IR: 4

¤     OCR: 1

¤     Speech: 3

¤     Learning: 1

¤     NER: 1

¤     Other: 2

¤     Total: 12

CITALA 2009 Participation

·        Morocco

·        Algeria

·        Tunisia

·        Saudi Arabia

·        Jordan

·        Syria

·        France

·        Spain

Directions

·        Resources

¤     Free and open Resources (AWN, Thesaurus, Corpora, etc.)

¤     Standards for representation (XML dialects, LMF)

¤     Standards for evaluation

·        Software

¤     Free and open ALP API (Libraries)

¤     Morphology (ALECSO, LREC, Buckwalter, etc.)

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Acknowledgment

·        Organizing committee

·        Scientific committee

·        EMI, IERA and Mohamed Vth university staff

·        Authors

Second Special Event

To complement the conference research sessions and to facilitate networking among conference participants, a special event program have been arranged. On May 6th, from 2h00 pm to 6h00 pm, a touristic trip is scheduled. The trip is FREE to the conference registered participants (Max. number of 60 participants based on first registered first served bases). Please contact the registration desk at the conference. The program consists of the following visits :