CALL FOR PAPERS

 

INFOS 2008

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems

27 – 29 March, 2008

Cairo, EGYPT

 

Special Track

On

Natural Language Processing

 

Natural language processing research is gaining much interest from many parties such as researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users. The goal of this track session(s) is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems.

 

 

Topics

 

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track:

  • Ontologies and linguistic resources (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.)
  • Transliteration, transcription and diacritization
  • Part of speech tagging
  • Morphological analysis and generation
  • Shallow and deep parsing
  • Machine translation
  • Word sense and syntactic disambiguation
  • Semantic analysis
  • Information retrieval
  • Information extraction
  • Question answering
  • Text clustering and classification
  • Text summarization
  • Text and web content  mining
  • Named entity recognition
  • Arabic script-based language processing

 

Invited Speaker

 

Prof. Ali Farghaly, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Text Group, Oracle USA, CA, and Adjunct Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA.

 

Track Chair

 

Prof. Khaled Shaalan (Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, Egypt)

 

Program Committee

 

Azza Abd ElMonem (Ain Shams, Egypt)

Nahed Aboelhassan (Brandeis University, USA)

Bayan Abu Shawar (Arab Open University, Jordan)

Hanady Ahmed (Alexandria University, Egypt)

Fawaz Al-Anzi (Kuwait University, Kuwait)

Ibrahim Alkharashi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

Achraf Chalabi (Sakhr, Egypt)

Chia-Hui Chang (National Central University, Taiwan)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)

Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt)

Mona Diab (Columbia University, USA)

Joseph  Dichy   (Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France)

Ahmed Guessoum (Freelance Consultant, Algeria)

Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA)

Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia)

Sattar Izwaini (Abu Dhabi University, UAE)

Mohammed Kayed (Beni-Sueif University, Egypt)

Shereen khoja (Pacific University, USA)

Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University, NL)

Petra Maier-Meyer (FAST, Germany)

Farid Meziane (Salford University, UK)

Ruslan Mitkov  (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Paola Monachesi  (Utrecht University , NL)

Farhad Oroumchian      (University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE)

Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo, Egypt)

Hafsa Raza (BUiD, UAE)

Doaa Samy (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain)

Otakar Smrz (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Abdelhadi Soudi (Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco)

Hissam Tawfik (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Mary Zajicek (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Imed Zitouni (IBM, USA)

 

Conference URL

www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/

 

Important Dates (Extended)

 

Full Paper submission due:  13 January 2008 

Notification of acceptance:  13 February 2008 

Camera ready submissions:  29 February 2008

 

For Further Information

 

Prof. Khaled Shaalan, k.shaalan@fci-cu.edu.eg