ACLing 2017 is the third  edition of  the Arabic Computational Linguistics series (ACLing). The conference  aims to bring together leading academicians, scientists, researchers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange new ideas and the latest results in Arabic Computational Linguistics and NLP. This  field has become increasingly important, as more and more Arabic information is now available through the Web, Social Media and Intranet services.  The scope of the conference encompasses the theory and practice of all aspects of Arabic Computational Linguistics in text, audio, image, and video.  Arabic is the most prominent member of the Semitic family (and its dialects) which includes many languages and dialects spoken by a large number of native speakers (around 300 million). Arabic has a rich and productive pattern-based morphology and syntactic constructions. However, the Arabic language as a whole is still understudied and many of its computational systems are underdeveloped.

ACLing 2017 will be published in Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER. Every peer-reviewed research article appearing in Procedia Computer Science will be published open access on ScienceDirect and will have a DOI assigned. Procedia Computer Science (ISSN: 1877-0509) of this series is indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex, DBLP, and Google Scholar.