Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Script-based Languages Workshop

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1) Subject:Arabic Script-based Languages Workshop

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Date: 20 Jul 2004
From:li Farghaly <farghaly at systransoft.com>
Subject:Arabic Script-based Languages Workshop

                                              Call for Participation and  
Registration
  COLING 2004

                Workshop on “Computational Approaches to Arabic   
Script-based  Languages

                                                  Geneva, Switzerland  -  
August 28, 2004

 Invited Speaker: Martin Kay (Stanford University)
           http://members.cox.net/karinem/COLING2004

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for those involved in
  the development of NLP systems in Arabic script languages to exchange
  ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems; to
  discuss the common challenges faced by all ;practitioners and to
assess the state of the art in the field. In addition, one of the aims
of the workshop is to identify promising areas for future
  collaborative research in the development of NLP systems for Arabic
script .languages

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

 
  Opening and Overview

8:30 – 9:00       Computer Processing of Arabic Script-based Languages:  
Current State and Future Directions
Ali Farghaly

  Session 1: Lexicon and Corpora

9:00 – 9:30       Developing an Arabic Treebank: Methods, Guidelines,  
Procedures, and Tools
  Mohamed Maamouri and Ann Bies

9:30 – 10:00     Preliminary Lexical Framework for English-Arabic  
Semantic Resource Construction
  Anne R. Diekema

10:00 – 10:30   The Architecture of a Standard Arabic Lexical Database:  
Some Figures, Ratios and Categories from the DIINAR.1 Source Program
  Ramzi Abbès, Joseph Dichy and Mohamed Hassoun

  10:30 – 10:45   Break

                        Session 2: Morphology

10:45 – 11:15   Systematic Verb Stem Generation for Arabic
  Jim Yaghi and Sane Yagi

11:15 – 11:45   Issues in Arabic Orthography and Morphology Analysis
  Tim Buckwalter

11:45 – 12:15   Finite-State Morphological Analysis of Persian
Karine Megerdoomian

  12:15 – 2:00     Lunch & Demo Sessions

                         Demonstrations

            Urdu Localization Project
  Sarmad Hussain

            FarsiSum – A Persian Text Summarizer
  Martin Hassel and Nima Mazdak

            Stemming the Qur’an
  Naglaa Thabet

            Language Weaver Arabic->English MT
  Daniel Marcu, Alex Fraser, William Wong and Kevin Knight

Invited Speaker

2:00 – 2:45       Arabic Script-Based Languages Deserve to be Studied  
Linguistically
Martin Kay

                        Session 3: Statistical Approaches

2:45 – 3:15       An Unsupervised Approach for Bootstrapping Arabic  
Sense Tagging
  Mona T. Diab

3:15 – 3:45       Automatic Arabic Document Categorization Based on the  
Naïve Bayes Algorithm
  Mohamed El Kourdi, Amine Bensaid and Tajje-eddine Rachidi

  3:45 – 4:00       Break

                        Session 4: Speech Processing

4:00 – 4:30       A Transcription Scheme for Languages Employing the  
Arabic Script Motivated by Speech Processing Applications
  Shadi Ganjavi, Panayiotis G. Georgiou and Shrikanth Narayanan

4:30 – 5:00       Automatic Diacritization of Arabic for Acoustic  
Modeling in Speech Recognition
  Dimitra Vergyri and Katrin Kirchhoff

5:00 – 5:30       Letter-to-Sound Conversion for Urdu Text-to-Speech  
System
Sarmad Hussain

  5:30 – 6:00       Discussion and Closing
  Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian

For registration go to  COLING website at  
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/. Please note that you may elect  
to register only for the workshop or for COLING + the workshop.  
Information on accommodation can also be found at COLING website.

            Workshop fees (in Swiss Francs):

   * Student early chf 90

 * Student late chf 120

 * Student on-site chf 150

 * Regular early chf 120

 * Regular late chf 150

 * Regular on-site chf 180


For questions and inquiries, please contact:

 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

   Ali Farghaly alifarghaly at aol.com (SYSTRAN Software, Inc.) Karine  
Megerdoomian  karinem at inxight.com  (Inxight Software and University of  
California, San Diego)

Regards,
Ali Farghaly
 
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