WACL3: The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-3) |
Website | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl3/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wacl3 |
Submission deadline | May 28, 2019 |
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.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
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.
Abstracts 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.
List of Topics
- Arabic Corpus Linguistics
- Arabic Corpus tools and resources
- Arabic Natural Language Processing
- Arabic Computatinal Linguistics
Committees
Organizing committee
- Dr Mahmoud El-Haj (SCC, Lancaster University)
- Professor Eric Atwell (CS, University of Leeds)
- Dr Paul Rayson (UCREL, Lancaster University)
- Lama Alsudias (SCC, Lancaster University)
Venue
Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to m.el-haj@lancaster.ac.uk