Invited Speaker

Dr. Preslav Nakov from the Arabic Language Technologies Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (Doha, Qatar) has agreed to be the keynote speaker at the workshop. He will be talking of "The Tanbih Mega-Project at QCRI: Fighting the Fake News, Promoting Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic"

Paper Submission Instructions

Paper Length: Submissions are expected to be up to 9 pages long plus any number of pages for references.

Submission Format: Download the MS Word and LaTeX templates here: https://coling2020.org/coling2020.zip

Submission Website: https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/WANLP2020

Blind Reviewing Policy: The workshop follows a blind reviewing policy. The authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper and avoid self-references that reveal their identity. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Multiple Submission Policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors must inform organizers immediately once a paper is to be withdrawn from the workshop for any reason. Attempting to publish the same paper or with a major overlap (50%) may lead to rejection of the paper even after an acceptance notification have gone out.

Anonymity and Supplementary Material: As the reviewing will be blind, papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”).

Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper. Papers that are submitted with accompanying software/data may receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation, and the potential impact of the software and data will be taken into account when making the acceptance/rejection decisions.

WANLP 2020 also encourages the submission of supplementary material to report preprocessing decisions, model parameters, and other details necessary for the replication of the experiments reported in the paper. Seemingly small preprocessing decisions can sometimes make a large difference in performance, so it is crucial to record such decisions to precisely characterize state-of-the-art methods.

Nonetheless, supplementary material should be supplementary (rather than central) to the paper. It may include explanations or details of proofs or derivations that do not fit into the paper, lists of features or feature templates, sample inputs and outputs for a system, pseudo-code or source code, and data. The paper should not rely on the supplementary material: while the paper may refer to and cite the supplementary material and the supplementary material will be available to reviewers, they will not be asked to review or even download the supplementary material. Authors should refer to the contents of the supplementary material in the paper submission, so that reviewers interested in these supplementary details will know where to look.

Note: The supplementary material does not count towards page limit and should not be included in paper, but should be submitted separately using the appropriate field on the submission website

Program Committee Members

The following is the list of PC members, all of whom participated in the review process of the WANLP 2019. A large percentage of them confirmed their willingness to review papers for WANLP 2020.

• Mourad Abbas, CRSTDLA, Algeria

• Ahmed Abdelali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

• Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada

• Bayan Abu Shawar, Al Ain University, UAE

• Wafia Adouane, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Haithem Afli, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

• Hussein Al-Natsheh, Mawdoo3 Limited, Jordan

• Almoataz Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt

• Bashar Alhafni, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

• Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, KSA

• Chafik Aloulou, Univeristé de Sfax, Tunisia

• Areeb Alowisheq, Imam University, KSA

• Mohammed Attia, George Washington University

• Gilbert Badaro, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Riadh Belkebir, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

• Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammad V University, Morocco

• Shammur Chowdhury, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

• Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

• Mahmoud El Haj, Lancaster University, UK

• Wassim El-Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Shady Elbassuoni, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Mariem Ellouze, University of Sfax, Tunisia

• Tamer Elsayed, Qatar University, Qatar

• Sahar Ghannay, LIUM Laboratory, France

• Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Syria

• Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Bassam Haddad, University of Petra, Jordan

• Lamia Hadrich Belguith, University of Sfax, Tunisia

• Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Salima Harrat, École Normale Supérieure (Bouzaréah), Algeria

• Maram Hasanain, Qatar University, Qatar

• Go Inoue, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Mustafa Jarrar, Bir Zeit University, Palestine

• Ganesh Jawahar, The University of British Columbia, Canada

• Salam Khalifa , New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Walid Magdy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

• Azzeddine Mazroui, University Mohamed I, Morocco

• Seif Mechti, University of Sfax, Tunisia

• Salima Medhaffar, Le Mans University, France

• Karima Meftouh, Badji Mokhtar University, Algeria

• Hamdy Mubarak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

• El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, The University of British Columbia, Canada

• Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar

• Alexis Nasr, University of Marseille, France

• Joshi Praveen, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

• Younes Samih, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

• Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE

• Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar

• Peter Sullivan Sullivan, The University of British Columbia, Canada

• Reem Suwaileh, Qatar University, Qatar

• Nadi Tomeh, University Paris 13, France

• Omar Trigui, University of Sousse, Tunisia

• Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

• Nasser Zalmout, Amazon Inc., USA

• Taha Zerrouki, University of Bouira, Algeria

• Chiyu Zhang, The University of British Columbia, Canada