CALL FOR PAPERS for ICCMIT 2017

Special Session on Arabic Language Technologies

Organized by

Prof. Hassanin M. Al-Barhamtoshy
Professor at Information Technology Dept.
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA
/ Dr. Abdullah AL-Malaise AL-Ghamdi
Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA
Prof. Mohsen A. Rashwan
Electronics and Communications Engineering Department
Cairo University, Egypt
/ Prof. Sherif M. Abdou
Professor at Information Technology Dept.
Faculty of Computer Science
Cairo University, Egypt

Arabic Human Language Technology (HLT) has gained much interest in the past few years, and currently there are many active teams worldwide in academy and industry working on such technologies. The main building blocks for HLT are language resources (LRs): collections of annotated text and spoken language, dictionaries, grammars, speech recognition modules, speech synthesis components, NLP, etc. For the Arabic language, some tools already exist but there is a long way to go before the Arabic tools reach the level for the more developed languages e.g. English, French or Japanese. Although, some language tools can be adapted to Arabic from other languages, many tools require new processing paradigms. This special session will provide an opportunity for researchers who are actively involved in Arabic language processing to update the community through reports on completed or ongoing work as well as on the availability of LRs, evaluation protocols and campaigns, products and core technologies.

Topics of Interest

Submissions for this special session should address, but are not limited to, the following or related topics:

  • Arabic Optical Character Recognition
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  • Arabic documents retrieval

  • Arabic Speech processing
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  • Information searching and retrieving

  • Phonology, Morphology, POS tagging
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  • Searching engines

  • Questions/answering systems
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  • Lexical Semantics and Ontology

  • Text summarization systems
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  • Special needs language resources

  • Automatic Machine Translation
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  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining

  • Arabic HLT for educational applications
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  • Arabic HLT in Industrial applications

  • Arabic HLT for special needs applications
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  • Evaluation Resources for the applications

Session Technical Committee

1. Prof. Hassanin Al-Barhamtoshy, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2. Prof. Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt

3. Prof. Salwa Elramly, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering, Ain Shams University

4. Prof. Sherif Mahdi Abdou, Cairo University, Egypt.

5. Prof. M. Waleed Fakhr, College of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science and Technology

6. Prof Hazem Raafat, Computer Science Department, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

The accepted papers will be published by IEEE and it will appear on IEEE-Xplore. Also, the best articles will be invited to be published again after expansion as book chapter in IGI Book as well as Journal of Information Retrieval "ACM Index journal".

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline / 15 February 2017
Notification of acceptance / 28 February 2017
Camera ready and registration / 15 March 2017
Conference Date / April. 3-5, 2017

Papers should be prepared and written in English. All papers should be submitted according to ICCMIT Paper Format, and should be submitted online beforeFebruary 15, 2017.More details on the paper submission format refer to website.