SITACAM’13 is the third international symposium on Automatic Amazigh processing Symposium providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discus the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and issues in the field of of Amazigh Language Processing. The first and the second meeting were held in Agadir City respectively in 2009, and 2011. The third meeting will be held in Beni Mellal city, Morocco.
We welcome you to Béni Mellal city to experience the nature, history, and cultural.
SITACAM13 is an SAI(http://thesai.org/Conferences/Details?code=SITACAM13) technically co-sponsored conference. All selected papers will be published in special issues of high quality journals.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research in all aspects of Amazigh Language Processing including, but not limited to:

Input and output of large character sets of Amazigh Language
Typesetting and font designs of Amazigh languages
Character encoding and compression
Multimodal representations and processing
Voice input and output
Phonology and morphology
Lexical semantics and word sense
Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse
Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing
Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing
Discourse analysis
Language, linguistic and speech resource development
Evaluation methods and user studies
Machine learning for natural language
Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation
Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
Text entailment and paraphrasing
Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering
Machine translation and multilingual processing
Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics
Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing
Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation
Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
Speech recognition and synthesis
Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
Language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning
NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
Special hardware and software for Moroccan language computing
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be presented in one of the oral sessions or poster sessions as determined by the program committee.
All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF) only. Paper submissions should follow the IEEE Proceedings' two-column format without exceeding ten (10) pages including references.
The official language of the conference is English or french. Papers submitted should be written in English.

Authors are invited to submit paper to: sitacam2013@yahoo.fr

General Chairs

M. FAKIR (fakfad@yahoo.fr)
B. Bouikhalene (bbouikhalene@yahoo.fr)