The workshop aims at demonstrating recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP) by bringing together leading academicians, scientists, researchers and practitioners to discuss their findings in NLP. This area of research has been constantly gaining momentum and attention over the past few years as textual material become available in abundance (social networks and web content) and advanced computational power become accessible. This resulted in an interesting array of practical applications. This is evident in the number of conferences, conference tracks, workshops, special issues of journals dedicated to or issues related to ANLP. Another indication of this growing interest is the surge of papers, books, and other forms of publications related to NLP. Noticeably, deep learning is dominating NLP as it did to other areas of artificial intelligence. Deep learning is the modern application of earlier neural network technology but with multiple layers that made possible with modern computing technology. The application of deep learning technology to NLP is progressing at a fast pace, and it is anticipated that we will see many exciting new discoveries here in the next few years. Therefore, the objective of this workshop is to present current and future advances in NLP. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop.

Proceedings of the workshops will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries.


Topics of interest
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Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to:

Morphological analysis.
Stemming, Tokenization, segmentation, chunking, parsing, POS.
Information retrieval and extraction.
Named Entity Recognition and Keyword extraction.
Word embedding models.
Text summarization and compression.
Event extraction and semantic role labeling.
Sentiment analysis and classification.
Dialectal modeling.
Machine translation.
Deep learning applications.
Speech recognition, synthesis, and speaker identification.
NLP (annotated) resources such as dictionaries, thesauri, lexicons, ontologies, datasets, etc.
Applications and technologies of NLP.

Paper Submission :
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Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template.

IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at: IEEE Guidelines Link

Papers should be submitted as PDF files via the EasyChair: EasyChair Link

Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference. All papers accepted for this conference are peer-reviewed and are to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS), and indexed by IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Important Dates :
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Full Paper Submission: July 15, 2018
Notification of Decision: August 25th, 2018
Camera-Ready and Registration : September 5th, 2018

Organizing Committee

General co-Chairs:

Ashraf Elnagar, ML&ALP Research Lab, University of Sharjah, UAE
Mohamed Abdel-Maguid, University Campus Suffolk, UK

Technical Program co-Chairs:

Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A&M San Antonio, USA (Izzat.Alsmadi@tamusa.edu)
Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine
Rossi Kamal, Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology, Bangladesh

Publication and Publicity Chairs:

Suleyman Eken, Kocaeli University, Turkey.
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Invited Speaker and Panel Chair:

Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK

Streering Committee:

Ashraf Elnagar, ML&ALP Research Lab, University of Sharjah, UAE (Chair)
Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan Univeristy of Science and Technology
Jim Jansen , Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar and The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA

Technical Programme Committee:

Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA
Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK.
Abdullah Khreishah, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.
Bas Geerdink, ING, Netherlands
Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Mohammed Naji Al-Kabi, Jordan
Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia.
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.
Marcio Lobo Netto, EPUSP, Brazil
Heider Wahsheh, KSA
Izzat Alsmadi, Boise state University, USA
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Mladen Vouk, N.C. State University, USA.
Monther Aldwairi, UAE