The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025: A Premier International Platform for Arabic Dialectal NLP
The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) is set to take place on 20th January 2025, in conjunction with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This workshop aims to serve as an outstanding platform for exchanging knowledge and outcomes in the theory, methodology, and applications of language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. With a focus on addressing the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP, WACL-4 welcomes submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications.
Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the development and utilisation of Arabic dialectal corpora, advancements in natural language processing techniques for Arabic dialects, applications and challenges of large language models in understanding and generating Arabic dialects, morphological and syntactical challenges in Arabic dialects, dialect identification and classification, speech recognition and synthesis for Arabic dialects, machine translation involving Arabic dialects, sentiment analysis and opinion mining in Arabic dialects, named entity recognition and information extraction for Arabic dialects, development of open access resources for Arabic dialects, text processing and transliteration challenges for Arabic dialects, cultural and sociolinguistic considerations in NLP applications for Arabic dialects, resources and tools for computational analysis of Arabic dialects, and applications of Arabic dialects NLP in real-world scenarios.
Submissions may be of two types: long papers (up to eight pages including references) and short papers (up to four pages including references). The submission deadline is 10th October 2024, and the notification of paper acceptance will be on 1st November 2024. The workshop is organized by a committee of experts in the field, and the anti-harassment policy of COLING 2025 is fully supported.
For more information and to submit your paper, please visit the official website at https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/.