Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Information Retrieval Systems (IRS)
• Question/Answering Systems (QAS)
• Information Extraction (IE)
• Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Text Categorization and Clustering
• Named Entity Recognition (NER)
• Information Extraction
• Part-Of-Speech Tagging (POS)
• Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)
• Multi-Word Term Extraction (MWTE)
• Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment
• Building Ontologies
• Text Summarization
• Machine Translation Systems (MTS)
• Cross-Language Applications: Arabic-English, Arabic-Spanish, Arabic-French
• Study of Linguistic Phenomena
• Language Resources: Linguistic Dictionnaries-Based resources (Phonology, Morphology, Semantic)
• Developement and Normalisation of Linguistic Resources and their Exploitation in Arabic NLP Applications
• Spell-check and automatic corrections
• Generation and Analysis (Morphology, Syntax, Semantics)
• Linguistic Resources and NLP Applications
• Comparative Linguistic Studies
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)