Themed Track on Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP&U'08)
within The 2008 International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES'08) (an IEEE conference)

Submission
Please follow instructions on the conference website:
http://www.iceec.org/

Deadlines
Please conform to deadlines as published on the conference web site.

Track chairs
Aladdin Ayesh - De Montfort University, UK

Shereen Khoja - Pacific University, USA

Assistant chairs
Shihadeh Alqrainy - De Montfort University, UK

Hasan Al-Serhan - De Montfort University, UK

Committee
Habib Abdulrab, Rouen University, Rouen, France

Riyad Al-Shalabi, Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences, Jordan

Ibrahiem M. El Emary, Al Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan

Ghassan Kanaan, Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences, Jordan

Ghazi I. Alkhatib , Applied Science University, Jordan

David C. Rine, George Mason University, USA

Abo Al-Ola Atifi, Cairo University, Egypt

M.A. Aziz-Alaoui, University of Le Havre, France

Alaa Sheta, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan

Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP&U) techniques were traditionally used to enable linguistic studies and to enable us to understand verbal interaction. In recent years, however, the applications of NLP&U extended to include dialogue systems especially for cognitive robots, games, new media writing, alternative interfaces such as hand writing and voice recognition, etc. This expansion emphasized some existing issues in NLP such as testing and corpus development, whilst new issues emerged requiring innovative solutions.

This session aims to provide a meeting point for researchers in Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP&U) to report on current projects and recent advances especially for those who are working with non-Latin languages and computational intelligence approaches to NLP&U.

The topics of the session are, but not limited to:
1- NLP techniques for non-Latin languages.
2- Neural networks techniques in NLP and NLU.
3- Fuzzy logic and linguistic reasoning
4- Corpus development, management and validation
5- Alternative computational intelligence techniques to NLP and NLU.
6- Applications of NLP and NLU especially in dialogue based systems.
7- Narratives, linguistic generative systems for new media writing, digital fiction and gaming.


Special conference fees arrangement

The conference organizer has kindly agreed to give 10% discount on the conference normal registration fees to the themed track authors/participants.

Publication

In addition to paper publication in the conference proceedings, which are included in IEEEXplore database, journal special issue(s) are planned. We already have special issue arranged with International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering.