On behalf of The National School of Applied Sciences in Fez (ENSA-USMBA) and the Arabic Language Engineering Society in Morocco (ALESM), the organizing committee would like to welcome you to The Sixth International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (ICALP'17).
ICALP (ex-CITALA) is aimed to become one of the leading international conferences in the field of Arabic Language Processing and related applications.
ICALP (ex-CITALA) is a series of international conferences which will be held once every two years. Regularly each ICALP (ex-CITALA) Conference edition attracts more authors from different countries in different continents thanks to the success of the preceding editions.
After the great success of the Fifth Editions, which was held in Oujda Morocco (November2014), the next year 2017 event will be held in Fez ,Morocco (October 11th -12th 2017).
The ICALP’17 conference will provide excellent opportunities to the scientists, researchers, industrial engineers, and university students to present their research achievements and to develop new collaborations and partnerships with experts in the field.
In ICALP’17, four keynote speakers will share their expertise with the aim of exposing participants to a wide spectrum of research and applications, to foster cross-pollination of research ideas and interests in Arabic Language Processing and related applications.
We thank you for your participation and contribution to the Sixth International Conference on Arabic Language Processing (ICALP'17), We wish you a very successful and enjoyable experience.


Topics of interest
Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Information Retrieval Systems (IRS)
Question/Answering Systems (QAS)
Information Extraction (IE)
Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Text Categorization and Clustering
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Information Extraction
Part-Of-Speech Tagging (POS)
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD)
Multi-Word Term Extraction (MWTE)
Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment
Building Ontologies
Text Summarization
Machine Translation Systems (MTS)
Cross-Language Applications: Arabic-English, Arabic-Spanish, Arabic-French
Study of Linguistic Phenomena
Language Resources: Linguistic Dictionnaries-Based resources (Phonology, Morphology, Semantic)
Developement and Normalisation of Linguistic Resources and their Exploitation in Arabic NLP Applications
Spell-check and automatic corrections
Generation and Analysis (Morphology, Syntax, Semantics)
Linguistic Resources and NLP Applications
Comparative Linguistic Studies
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)