The Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL3) will be held in conjunction with MT Summit XII this year. The topics of the workshop include any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages, with an emphasis on Machine Translation applications.

• List of Workshop Presentations
  
• Abstracts of Presentations
  
• Information for Conference Participants

The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common to Arabic script-based languages despite their being of distinct language families. These include right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based languages brought together researchers working on the computer processing of these languages. The third workshop (CAASL3) will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and experience with a focus on machine translation. It also provides an opportunity to asses the progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004.