coling ws computational approaches semitic languages workshop computational approaches semitic languages colingacl98 sunday august 16 1998 university montreal second call papers workshop description although exists considerable body cl research specifically targeted semitic languages much work date result initiatives undertaken individual researchers research establishments direct consequence comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners either state art practiced outside locality common challenges faced practitioners potential developing coordinated approach aims workshop therefore provide forum current work broad range subfields presented collected diffused assess state art view identifying promising areas future collaborative research set initiatives explore possibilities supporting research national international funding agencies subtopics areas interest include limited educational applications empirical methods orthographic represention language modelling language resources lexicon lexical represention machine translation morphology phonology multilinguality syntax parsing generation speech applications workshop programme committee michael rosner university malta malta coordinator mohamed abd elsalam sakr software egypt ken beesley xerox research centre europe france khalid choukri elra elda france yaacov choueka bar ilan university israel fathi debili cnrscrlao paris irmc tunis mamoun hattab arabic textware amman jordan george kiraz bell labs usa chadia moghrabi univerity moncton canada mori rimon hebrew university israel sponsor mid med bank malta submission requirements deadlines submission deadline april 6 1998 notification date june 1 1998 camera ready copy due june 22 1998 format electronic submissions postscript format provide list keywords indicate best fitting subtopic list latex users encouraged use style file provided acl http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca colaclsub sty maximum length 8 pages including figures references please use a4 us letter format set margins text lies within rectangle 6 5 x 9 inches 16 5 x 23 cm use classical fonts times roman computer modern 11 12 points text 14 16 points headings title please submit papers mros cs um edu mt submissions acknowledged contact michael rosner mros cs um edu mt mike rosner mros cs um edu mt last modified fri feb 20 15 08 23 met