The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-3)

To be held at the Corpus Linguistics 2019 Conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom, on 22 July 2019.



http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl3/



NEW: Deadline extended to May 28, 2019 (Midnight PST)

NEW: Accepted papers proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology. https://aclanthology.info<https://aclanthology.info/>

NEW: Registration is now open on the Conference Main page<http://www.cl2019.org/index.php/registration-and-accommodation/>



Workshop Description:



Over recent years, research into the Arabic language using corpora and corpus methods has moved from a small scale activity with isolated pockets of activity to a much larger very active field, with work advancing rapidly on many different fronts in both corpus and computational linguistics. Previously, we organised the 2011 and 2013 Workshops on Arabic Corpus Linguistics WACL-1 and WACL-2, with the second edition being held in conjunction with 2013 Corpus Linguistics Conference at Lancaster University. We now propose to continue working on creating a venue where different activities in corpus research into Arabic can be brought together to explore progress in the field by continuing the WACL series through organising the 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-3) at the CL2019 conference at Cardiff University.



The scope of the workshop encompasses both (a) the design, construction and annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora in research on the Arabic language – in areas including lexis and lexicography, syntax, collocation, stylistics, and discourse analysis, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems and analysis tools. The proposed workshop will pay special attention to non-standard Arabic varieties, Arabic dialects as well as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).



The workshop is planned as a full day event including a keynote talk, oral and poster presentations.



Call for papers:



We invite full papers submissions for the full-day Third Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics, to be held in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics 2019 conference in Cardiff, Wales. Following on from the successful First and Second WACL in 2011, and 2013.



The aim of this series of workshops is to create a venue for exploring progress in the field of research into the Arabic language variations using corpora, from across the many areas of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics where the analysis of Arabic structure and usage is an active issue.



The scope of the workshop encompasses both (a) the design, construction and annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora in research on the Arabic language – in any relevant area, including (but not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, collocation, NLP systems and analysis tools, contrastive and historical studies, stylistics, and discourse analysis. All varieties of Arabic – including the different Colloquial and Dialectical Arabic as well as Classical/Qur’anic and Modern Standard forms of the language – are within the workshop’s purview.



Papers for presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on any other topic related to the study of Arabic-language corpora. Presentations either describing finished research or reporting work in progress are welcome. Submissions from postgraduate students are especially welcome. Dual submissions should be disclosed at time of submission.



Submission Guidelines:



Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included.



Submissions may consist of no less than four (4) and up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references.



We follow ACL 2019 submission templates.

Authors of papers accepted for oral or poster presentation at WACL3 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation the papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.



Accepted papers authors are required to submit a camera ready to be included in the final proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be notified after the notification of acceptance with further details.



Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings hosted at Lancaster University with a permanent DOI link, that gets indexed by Google Scholar.



Papers accepted for Oral or Poster presentations will appear in the same proceedings.



Submissions Link:



https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wacl3



Important Dates:



Feb 18, 2019: First Call for Workshop Papers

Apr 8, 2019: Second Call for Workshop Papers

May 14, 2019: Final Call for Workshop Papers

May 28, 2019 (Midnight PST): Workshop Papers Due Date

Jun 14, 2019: Notification of Acceptance

Jun 26, 2019 (Midnight GMT -12): Camera Ready Papers

Jul 01, 2019 Workshop Schedule:

Jul 22, 2019: Workshop Date (Full day 9am to 5pm).



Contact Person:



Dr Mahmoud El-Haj

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Organising Committee:



Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University.

Eric Atwell, University of Leeds.

Paul Rayson, Lancaster University.

Lama Alsudias, Lancaster University.



Programme Committee:



Nizar Habash, NYAD, UAE.

Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13, France.

Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar.

Taha Zerrouki, ESI, Algeria.

Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA.

Eric Atwell, Leeds University, UK.

Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK.

Lama Alsudias, Lancaster University, UK.

Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK.

Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar.

Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt.

Tamer Elsayed, Qatar University, Qatar.

Hazem Hajj, AUB, Lebanon.

Scott Piao, Lancaster University, UK.

Haithem Afli, DCU, Ireland.

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco.

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, RNU, Tunisia.



Dr. Paul Rayson

Director of UCREL and Reader in Natural Language Processing

Director of Studies (UG)

Group Lead (Data Science)

School of Computing and Communications, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK.

Web: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/rayson/

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