semitic language workshop workshop computational approach semitic language colingacl sunday august university montreal call pre registration workshop description although exist considerable body cl research specifically target semitic language much work date result initiative undertake individual researcher research establishment direct consequence comparatively little awareness amongst practitioner either state art practice outside own locality common challenge face practitioner potential develop coordinate approach aim workshop therefore provide forum where current work broad range subfield present collect diffuse assess state art view identify promise area future collaborative research examine possibility support research through national international fund initiative accept papers concern arabic hebrew maltese akkadian follow subject area tag orthography morphology syntax parse generation programme comprise session each theme together short supplementary session short papers final programme http www c um edu mt mro casl prog html preregistration http colingacl iro umontreal ca mainpage html programme committee members michael rosner university malta malta workshop coordinator ken beesley xerox research centre europe france joe caruana university malta malta khalid choukrus elra elda france yaacov choueka bar ilan university israel fathus debilus cnrscellma pari irmc tunisium ray fabrus university malta malta mamoun hattab arabic textware amman jordan george kiraz bell lab usa ray fabrus university malta chadium moghrabus univerity moncton canada morus rimon hebrew university israel mike rosner mro c um edu mt modify frus feb met 