Preface

摘要

Assalamu 3alaykum,e-greetings! Welcome to The Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020) held jointly with COLING 2020 online. This workshop aims at providing opportunities for researchers and engineers working on Arabic NLP to share and discuss their ongoing work. Similar to COLING 2020,we will not be traveling to Barcelona,Spain to attend the workshop. The location for this year is different than in the past; WANLP 2020 would be hosted online,a shift due to the unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 virus. We want this workshop to offer a sign of inclusion for everyone around the globe to come share their knowledge and learn from each other,in a safe and welcoming environment. We will be attending online from anywhere in the world,including my living room. This is our first time having WANLP as a virtual workshop. This workshop is the fifth in a series,following the First workshop on Arabic NLP held at EMNLP 2014 in Doha,Qatar; the Second workshop on Arabic NLP held at ACL 2015 in Beijing,China; the Third workshop on Arabic NLP held at EACL 2017 in Valencia,Spain; and the Fourth workshop on Arabic NLP held at ACL 2019 in Florence,Italy.