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Dear Colleagues,We are very pleased to invite you to contribute to the InternationalColloquium Written Arabic, Writing Arabic: Corpora and Lexica (WAWA_CorLex),which will be held from 23 to 25 October 2012 at Roma Tre University, Rome.The Colloquium is a joint international project co-organized by The HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, Roma Tre University and La Sapienza University ofRome.Following the International Workshop Towards a Thesaurus Linguae Arabicae(Roma Tre, 11-13 October 2011 - Roma Tre University, Rome) and the FirstInternational Conference on Written Arabic and Writing Arabic (The HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, 19-21 June 2012), WAWA_CorLex aims to bringtogether scholars interested in the perspective of building a large networkof corpora and lexica of Arabic, including texts and lexical material fromdifferent periods and different varieties of Arabic.The new framework proposed aims to treat Arabic texts and lexica by aninterdisciplinary approach that aims to study and deal with Arabic “withoutadjectives”: the goal is to treat Arabic as a single, multilayered languageand to build lexical tools and resources that allow scholars to search forArabic linguistic and textual data beyond traditional diachronic, diatopicand diastratic distinctions.Papers about any aspect of the creation, development, or maintenance ofArabic lexica and corpora, including theoretical and applicative issues onArabic linguistics, dialectology, textual analysis, are welcome.Presentation of ongoing projects as well as final results of a researchproject are welcome. PhD students and young researchers are warmly invitedto contribute. Colleagues who wish to give a paper are requested to send atentative title and an abstract (250 words), no later than 25 September2012, to: lancioni@uniroma3.it. Papers may be given in English, French orArabic and are allotted 20 min. followed by 10 min. discussion.A final list of contributors, abstracts and the general schedule will bepublished on the conference website(host.uniroma3.it/docenti/lancioni/WAWA_CorLex) by 5 October 2012. Allinformation on transportation and accommodation will also be found there.Organizers:Prof. Giuliano LancioniProf. Olivier DurandProf. Gabriel M. RosenbaumDr. Cristina SolimandoMrs. Michal Marmorstein