The 4th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)

The 4th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)
(http://wanlp2019.arabic-nlp.net) will take place on August 1-2, 2019 in
Florence, Italy. The workshop is collocated with ACL 2019
(http://www.acl2019.org/EN/index.xhtml)

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following :

– Basic core technologies : morphological analysis, disambiguation,
tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing,
semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling,
etc.

– Applications : machine translation, speech recognition, speech
synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
technologies, social media, etc.

– Resources : dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the
Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP
researchers such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script
are welcome. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but
targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial
systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the
details of their work.

Shared Task
Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic dialect
identification : MADAR Shared Task : Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect
Identification

Important Dates
April 26, 2019 : Workshop Paper Due Date
May 24, 2019 : Notification of Acceptance
June 3, 2019 : Camera-ready papers due
August 1-2, 2019 : Workshop Dates

Submission Details
Submissions are expected to be up to 8 pages long plus any number of
pages for references. Final versions of long papers will be given one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers ? comments
can be taken into account. Submissions will be done via softconf (link
TBA).

Workshop Website
http://wanlp2019.arabic-nlp.net