Center of Excellence in Arabic Language

Organized by

Center of Excellence in Arabic Language
at Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities

Conference

Computational Linguistics and the Arabic Language

Vision, Application, and Aspiration

Computational Linguistics and the Arabic Language

📅 October 25-26, 2022

World languages receive great attention in the field of automatic processing, which has contributed to achieving rapid advances in computational linguistic applications. This places Arabic language researchers before challenges to keep up with accelerating research and applied developments and to advance computational linguistic research in Arabic. This conference comes

as an embodiment of Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities' commitment to scientific research and its endeavor to advance the Arabic language in modern fields, contributing to strengthening its global presence and coordinating research efforts to serve it optimally.

Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities

Key Conference Themes

1Building computational dictionaries and linguistic corpora
2Machine translation: Problems and solutions
3Computational linguistics and people of determination
4Phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic computational analysis
5The role of language computing in teaching it to non-native speakers
6The role of Arabic language computing in teaching Arabic to native speakers
7Computational linguistics and interdisciplinary extensions
8Arabic content on the Internet

Conference Objectives

1Providing opportunities for establishing scientific partnerships and interdisciplinary studies in language computing
2Reviewing the latest academic and applied studies and research
3Benefiting from modern software and technologies in teaching Arabic
4Exploring research and application horizons in computational linguistics
5Developing general and Arabic linguistic studies
6Proposing ideas and visions for developing Arabic language teaching for non-native speakers
7Identifying challenges related to employing technology in Arabic language teaching
8Communication among specialists and researchers in Arabic computational processing worldwide

Participation Requirements

Research must be related to one of the conference themes.
Research must be original and not previously published or submitted elsewhere.
Research accepted in Arabic and English with abstracts in both languages.
Research must be between 20 and 30 pages.
Typed using Times New Roman, double-spaced, size 14.
Subject to scientific evaluation adopted in international conferences.

Important Dates

Conference sessions: Tuesday & Wednesday, October 25-26, 2022.
Early submissions accepted until Thursday, July 28, 2022.
Late submissions accepted until Wednesday, August 31, 2022.
Final deadline: Friday, September 30, 2022.
University covers participation expenses (tickets, accommodation, transportation).

Day 2

Day 1

Conference Agenda
Conference Guide
Final Statement

Correspondence

1

Abstracts and research (electronic copy) are sent via the conference registration link, following the university's documentation methodology.

2

The MBZUH documentation guide is adopted for Arabic research. Oxford methodology is adopted for English research.