Important dates

Submission of extended

abstracts (300-500 words):

October 1st 2013

Notification of proposal acceptance:

November 1st 2013

Submission of full papers: January 30th 2014

Notification of paper

acceptance: March 30th 2014

Final version submission:

May 31st 2014

Publication date: November 2014

Submission System

http://ees.elsevier.com/jksu-cis/

Special Issue Editor

Hend Al-Khalifa –

Associate professor,

Information Technology

Department,

College of Computer and

Information Sciences,

King Saud University

hendk@ksu.edu.sa

Arabic NLP: Current State and

Future Challenges

About the Journal

The Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) is produced

and hosted by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University (KSU). The CIS Journal

publishes peer-reviewed research articles in computer and information sciences; it was

founded in 1994 and is published in http://ees.elsevier.com/jksu-cis/.

Abstract

Arabic is a member of the Semitic languages family that uses a distinct alphabet set and

spoken by more than 340 million individuals as their first language. It is the official language,

either solely or jointly, in twenty countries located in the Middle East and Africa. Arabic is

the language of the Holly Qur’aan and one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Arabic Natural language processing (NLP) is still in its initial stage compared to the work

in English and other languages. NLP is made possible by the collaboration of many

disciplines including computer science, linguistics, mathematics, psychology and artificial

intelligence. The results of which are highly beneficial for many applications such as machine

translation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, text summarization and

Question Answering.

This special issue of CCIS Journal is intended to present the current state of research on

Arabic NLP, Arabic computational linguistics, and related areas. We welcome unpublished

high quality papers (in English) on current state of Arabic NLP including, but not limited to:

Part of Speech Tagging

Morphological analysis and generation

Word sense and Syntactic disambiguation

Transliteration, transcription and diacritization

Named Entity Recognition

Corpus Linguistics (corpora, electronic dictionaries, treebanks, etc.)

Machine Translation

Information Extraction

Information Retrieval

Question Answering

Semantic and Sentiment analysis

Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization

Text and Web content mining

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Guest Editors:

Eric Atwell – Associate Professor, Language research group, I-AIBS institute for artificial intelligence and biological systems,

School of computing, Faculty of engineering, University of Leeds.

Khaled Shaalan – Associate Professor at Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo Univ. (on Secondment to The British

University in Dubai).

Imed Zitouni – PhD, Principal Researcher at Microsoft, Member of the Relevance and Measurement team of Microsoft.