The Egyptian Journal of Language Engineering contains papers contributing to the theory and algorithms enhancing the understanding and development of language engineering systems and techniques as well as discussions of the social implications of these systems. The scope of the journal includes, but not limited to, language analysis and comprehension; language generation; spoken language understanding; discourse and dialog systems; evaluation of natural language processing systems; large corpora; speaker and language recognition; speech compression, recognition and synthesis; natural language processing for information retrieval, machine translation, language engineering frameworks and methodologies; language engineering and artificial intelligence; automatic character recognition; word Net architecture; semantic web and ontology languages.

Editor-in-Chief:
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Adeeb Riad Ghonaimy
Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University

Executive Editor:
Prof. Dr.Salwa Elramly
Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University

Associate Editors:
Prof. Dr. Aly H. Moussa, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Farag, Cairo University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Hussein I. Shaheen, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Z. Abdel Mageed, Azhar University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Aly A. Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Magdi Fikry, Cairo University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Steven Krauwer,Utrecht University, Nertherlands
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Rafae, Cairo University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Younis A. Elhamalawy, Azhar University
Prof. Dr. Mona T. Diab, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Dr. Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Bente Maegaard, CST, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Taghrid Anbar, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Prof. Dr. Khalid Choukri, Elda, France
Prof. Dr. Christopher Ciri, LDC, USA
Prof. Dr. Allan Ramsey, Manchester University, United Kingdom.

Editorial Board:
Dr. Ayman Baha, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University
Dr. Mohamed A. Sobh, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University
Mr. Ahmed Hussein, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University
Miss Fatma Farag, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University
Mme Amal Abdel Hamid