This Workshop is being organized by the English Department in the Women’s College. It will be held on the 9^th and 10^th of December (Wednesday and Thursday of this week) from 8:00 to 5:00 each day. The venue here in the Men’s College will be Prince Salman Hall. The proceedings will be opened by His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Yamani, Rector of Prince Sultan University.

The Workshop has three main goals:

       ·    To highlight the role played by language technology in today’s world

       ·   To explore challenging areas in Translation, Applied Linguistics  and Computational Linguistics

      ·  To exchange ideas and engage in academic dialogue with faculty members from different Saudi universities.

Accordingly, certain topics will be of interest to Faculty from departments other than English. In particular, Faculty from the CIS Department should find certain areas to be of value.

The Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Ahmed Yamani of Saudi Telecom Company, who will speak on Human-Computer Interaction: an Artificial Intelligence Approach.

Registration forms will be available each day. Further information is available on the following link: www.psu.edu.sa/pscw/eng/.