[Controlled-languages] NEMLAR Arabic Language Resources and Tools conference - Early bird registration: 15th July 2004

[Magali Jeanmaire]

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NEMLAR Arabic Language Resources and Tools conference - Early bird 
registration: 15th July 2004 
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The international conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools is 
organised by the NEMLAR
project consortium and will take place the 22-23 September 2004 in Cairo, 
Egypt.

In this conference we will focus on Arabic language technology and on the 
necessary language resources
and tools for both research and commercial development of language 
technology for Arabic. Multilingual
language technology is also highlighted, as well as general methodologies. 
Evaluation of modules and
systems is another field which is closely related to language resources, 
because language resources are
used to perform the evaluation. Substantial mutual benefits will be 
achieved by addressing these issues
through international collaboration. For this reason, the conference is 
organised at the international level.
The conference is held under the auspices of H.E. prof. Ahmad Nazeef, the 
Egyptian Minister of Information
& Telecommunications.

**Programme Committee Co chairs:
Khalid Choukri, ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution 
Agency, France
Bente Maegaard, CST - Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen, 
Denmark

**Local Organising Committee Co chairs:
Muhsin Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Muhammad Atiyya, The Engineering Company for Computer Systems Development, 
RDI, Egypt

**Main sponsors:
Sakhr, Egypt
ELRA - European Language Resources Association
Supported by The INCO-MED programme, the European Commission

**Registration:
Early registration before July 15th 2004
For more information please see:
Conference web site: http://www.elda.fr/nemlar-conf
Project web site: http://www.nemlar.org