Dear SIGUL Members,

ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) submission deadline is approaching (May 31, 2019).

The International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) is aimed to be one of the most important and leading conference on Arabic NLP (https://icalp2019.loria.fr). ICALP2019 is the 7th edition (information about the previous editions are mentioned at: ICALP2017), all branches of NLP related to Arabic or Semitic languages are welcomed. Arabic spoken or text language processing are the main kernel of ICALP2019. The conference will emphasize on all the approaches from theoretical models to industrial applications. ICALP2019 will be held at Loria (University of Lorraine), which is situated in Nancy on the east part of France near the border of Luxembourg and Germany. We look forward to welcome you to a scientifically inspiring event and we hope that ICALP2019 will be a highly positive scientific experience for all the participants. Two keynote speakers Dr Mona Diab (Department of Computer Science, George Washington University) and Dr Albert Gatt (Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta.) will share their expertise with the aim of exposing participants to a wide spectrum of research and applications, to foster cross-pollination of research ideas and interests in Arabic Language Processing and related applications. As in the previous year (ICALP – CITALA 2017), we aim, for accepted papers, to be published by Springer. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by three experts from the domain. Only the 30% best papers will be selected to be published by Springer. Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Few topics of the conference are given below.

Thanks to the Google's sponsoring two scholarships (including the Flight ticket, the accomodation and the registration fees) are proposed to Phd or Master students to attend the conference. A short CV and a motivation letter are requested to apply to this scholarship (please contact icalp2019@inria.fr)

List of Topics

• Arabic dialect processing
• Automatic speech recognition
• Building ontologies
• Code Switching phenomena
• Comparative Linguistic Studies
• Cross-Language Applications
• Deep Learning for Arabic applications
• Digital Humanities
• End-to-End DNN
• Generation and Analysis
• Human Machine-Dialogue
• Information retrieval on Social Networks
• Linguistic Resources for Arabic NLP Applications
• Machine Translation
• Multi-Word Term Extraction
• Named Entity Recognition
• Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Optical Character Recognition
• Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment
• Question/Answering Systems
• Semitic languages
• Spell-check and automatic corrections
• Study of Linguistic Phenomena
• Text Categorization and Clustering
• Text Summarization
• Word Sense Disambiguation

Committees

Program Committee

• Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI))
• Mohamed Afify (Microsoft, Cairo, Egypt)
• Hassina Aliane (Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique , Algeria)
• Frédéric Béchet (Aix Marseille Université - LIF, France)
• Almoataz Bellahal-Said (Cairo University, Egypt)
• Laurent Besacier (University of Grenoble, France)
• Karim Bouzoubaa (EMI, UM5, Rabat, Morocco)
• Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
• Khalid Choukri (ELDA, European Language Resource Association, France)
• Kareem Darwish (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
• Joseph Di Martino (Loria - University of Lorraine, France)
• Mona Diab (George Washington university, USA)
• Abdelhamid El Jihad (IERA, UMS, Rabat, Morocco)
• Mahmoud El-Haj (School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University, UK)
• Yannick Estève (LIUM University of Maine, France)
• Albert Gatt ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta)
• Nada Ghneim (Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Damascu)
• Ahmed Guessoum (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria)
• Hatem Haddad (Department of Computer & Decision Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
• Kais Haddar (Faculté des sciences de Sfax, Tunisia)
• Abdelfetah Hamdani (IERA, UMS, rabat, Morocco)
• Yannis Haralambous (Institut Mines-Télécom & UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Brest, France)
• Salima Harrat (Ecole Normale Supérieure Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria)
• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, USA)
• Mustafa Jarrar (Birzeit University- Sina Institute, Palestine)
• Denis Jouvet (Loria University of Lorraine, France)
• Abdelmonaime Lachkar (ENSA, USMBA, Fez, Morocco)
• David Langlois (Loria University of Lorraine, France)
• Abdelhak Lakhouaja (UMP, Oujda, Morocco)
• Azzedine Lazrek (UCA, Marrakech, Morocco)
• Yves Lepage (University of Waseda, Japan)
• Azzedine Mazroui (UMP, Oujda, Morocco)
• Karima Meftouh (University of Annaba, Algeria)
• Farid Meziane (University of Salford, Manchester, UK)
• Vito Pirrelli (Institute for Computational Linguistics CNR, Pisa Italy)
• Violaine Prince (LIRMM, Montepelier, France)
• Allan Ramsay (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK)
• Horacio Rodríguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain)
• Paolo Rosso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
• Motaz Saad (University Islamic of Gaza, Palestine)
• Fatiha Sadat (University du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
• Khaled Shaalan (The British University, United Arab Emirates)
• Olivier Siohan (Google, USA)
• Kamel Smaili (Loria University of Lorraine, France)
• Adnan Yahya (Birzeit University, Palestine)
• Abdella Yousfi (Mohammed V university, Morocco)
• Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar)
• Imed Zitouni (Microsoft Research, USA)

Organizing committee

• Karima Abidi (Student management)
• Olivia Brenner (Communication)
• Joseph Di Martino (Special Event)
• David Langlois ( Publication and Logistic management)
• Mohamed-Amine Menacer (Website designer)

Invited Speakers

• Dr Mona Diab ( Department of Computer Science, George Washington University (GW) )
• Dr Albert Gatt ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta )

Publication

ICALP2019 (CITALA) proceedings aim to be published by Springer

Venue

The conference will be held in Nancy (East of France) near the borders of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. It will be held at Loria ( Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications).

Contact

smaili@loria.fr

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