Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 537.
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        Date: 2020-01-09 14:44:13+00:00
        From: Wajdi Zaghouani 
        Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Digital Humanities and Computational Linguistics in the Middle East (Fully Funded)

The Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at the College of Humanities
and Social Sciences (CHSS) in Hamad Bin Khalifa University is proud to host
the first International Workshop on Digital Humanities / Computational
Linguistics in the Middle East. The workshop will be held on 20-21 April
2020 in the Education City in Doha (Qatar) and it will be co-located with the
inaugural Middle East Conference (MEC) . We
expect participants with expertise from a broad range of disciplines
including Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, Computational
linguistics, and Computational Social Sciences.

Workshop Webpage:  https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-lt/
Travel Funding

Authors of accepted abstracts will have their travel cost to Doha (Qatar) fully
funded (Economy class airfare) + Accommodation in a five stars hotel +
Registration fees waived (only 1 author per submission).
Important Dates

Abstract submission Deadline: 16 January 2020 23.59 (PST).

February 16, 2020: Notification of abstract acceptance.

February 1 - April 21, 2020: Registration open.

Workshop: April 20-21 2020
Organizers

Wajdi Zaghouani (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU)

George K. Mikros (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU)

Marc Owen Jones (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU)
Workshop Topics and Themes included but are not limited to the following:


   - Challenges of Arabic social media processing
   - Opinion mining and social media analytics
   - The credibility of online Arabic content
   - Language Resources for Semitic Languages (dictionaries, annotated
   data, corpus, etc.)
   - Methodologies and tools for Language Resources construction and
   annotation
   - Guidelines, standards and best practices for Language Resources
   Creation
   - Digital Humanities and their application
   - Social media, disinformation, propaganda and information controls
   - Language technologies and their application
   - Opinion mining and social media analytics.
   - Multilingual issues, language coverage, and diversity
   - Computational Social Sciences in the context of the MENA region

Abstracts Submission

The language of the workshop will be English.

Proposals of 500-600 words should be submitted using the link below :

*Abstract Submission Link.*
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemXHdffSjneXlQwhtOwF4NVoWztD5OtVEfY79
arrhnrHqhWw/viewform

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemXHdffSjneXlQwhtOwF4NVoWztD5OtVEfY79a
rrhnrHqhWw/viewform

Abstracts would be reviewed by the workshop organizers and authors of
selected abstracts would be offered a time slot for a short presentation
(15 minutes each) to present their ideas + 5 minutes for the questions. The
submitted abstract will be published online on this website.


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Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
PhD Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar
tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992
wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building



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