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">1) Subject:Cairo NLP Conference</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 20 Mar 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:"Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <<a href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@gmail.com">khaled.shaalan@gmail.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Cairo NLP Conference</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">INFOS 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems<br> 27 – 29 March, 2008<br> Cairo, EGYPT<br><br> Special Track<br> On<br> Natural Language Processing<br><br> Program Schedule<br><br>March 27th: 3:30 – 5:30<br>+++++++++++++++++++<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">NLP 1: Text Summarization and Learning Techniques <<<<<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Chair: Prof Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France<br>Co-Chair: Dr Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and<br>Management of Sfax, Tunisia<br><br>Data Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory<br>Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora<br>Hermann Moisl<br><br>News Aggregating System with Automatic Summarization Based on Local<br>Multiple Alignment<br>Takaharu Takeda, Atsuhiro Takasu<br><br>A Learning Technique to Determine Criteria for Multiple Document Summarization<br>Fatma Kallel Jaoua, Maher Jaoua, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou<br><br>SDRT based CSP problem planning approach for merging predefined<br>messages in human-machine interaction<br><br>systems<br>Pierre Hankach, Laurence Danlos, Franck Panaget<br><br>What can NLP techniques do for eLearning?<br>Paola Monachesi, Eline Westerhout<br><br>ASKME: Adaptive and Self-evolving Knowledge-base for Mobile Environments<br>Hassan Artail,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Jad El Hage, Reda Aouad, Kassem Fawaz<br><br>March 28th:9:30 -11:10<br>++++++++++++++++++<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">NLP 2: Arabic Natural Language Processing (I) <<<<<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Chair: Dr Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle, UK<br>Co-Chair: Dr Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt<br><br>Estimating phone lengths for a diphone-based text-to-speech system for Arabic<br>Allan Ramsay, Hanady Mansour<br><br>Combined Classifier Based Arabic Speech Recognition<br>Ehab Eissa, Ahmed Tolba, Samir El Mougy<br><br>AraConc, an Arabic Concordance software<br>Ramzi Abbès, Joseph Dichy<br><br>A Web-Based Approach for Arabic PP Attachment<br>Rania Al-Sabbagh, Khaled Elghamry<br><br><br><br>March 28th: 3:30 - 5:30<br>++++++++++++++++++<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">NLP 3: Arabic Natural Language Processing (II) <<<<<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Chair: Prof Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA<br>Co-Chair: Doaa Samy, Cairo University, Egypt<br><br>Enhanced Annotation and Parsing of the Arabic Treebank<br>Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick<br><br>Using the Web in Building A Corpus-Based Hypernymy-Hyponymy Lexicon<br>with Hierarchical Structure for Arabic<br>Khaled Elghamry<br><br>A Hybrid Approach for Converting Written Egyptian Colloquial Dialect<br>into Diacritized Arabic<br>Hitham M. Abo Bakr, Khaled Shaalan, Ibrahim Ziedan<br><br>Naïve Bayes Classifier for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation<br>Samir Elmougy, Taher Hamza, and Hatem M. Noaman<br><br>Improving KNN Arabic Text Classification With N-Grams Based Document Indexing<br>Riyad Al-Shalabi, Rasha Obeidat<br><br>Holistic Approach for Classifying and Retrieving Personal Arabic<br>Handwritten Documents<br>Salama Brook, Zaher Al Aghbari<br><br>March 29th:9:30 -11:30<br>++++++++++++++++++<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">NLP 4: Information Extraction <<<<<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Chair: Prof Mohamed Maamouri, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC),<br>University of Pennsylvania, USA<br>Co-Chair: Dr Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France<br><br>Hybrid, Three-stage Named Entity Recognizer for Tamil<br>S. Lakshmana Pandian, Krishnan Aravind Pavithra, T.V. Geetha<br><br>Chatbots are natural web interface to information portals<br>Bayan Abu Shawar<br><br>Ontology Learning from Textual Web Documents<br>Maryam Hazman, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Ahmed Rafea<br><br>Enhancing English/Arabic CLIR Using Word Collocations and Statistical<br>Translation and Transliteration Resources<br>Tarek A. Elghazaly, Aly A. Fahmy<br><br>Recognizing semi-automatically author's intentions from scientific documents<br>Hassan Kanso, Ali Elhore, Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, Saïd Tazi<br><br><br>March 29th:9:30 -11:30<br>++++++++++++++++++<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">NLP 5: Persian Natural Language Processing <<<<<<<<<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>Chair: Dr Kareem Darwish, Cairo Univ., Egypt<br>Co-Chair: Dr. Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University, NL<br><br>A Romanized Transcription for Persian<br>Jalal Maleki<br><br>Automatic term extraction for cross-language information retrieval<br>using a bilingual parallel corpus<br>Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah<br><br>Using Heuristic Rules to Improve Persian Part of Speech Tagging Accuracy<br>Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian, Masoud Rahgozar<br><br>Tuning Lambda Parameter for Language Modeling Based Persian Retrieval<br>Hadi Amiri, Ashkan Zarnani, Mahbod.Tavallaee, Sadra Abedinzadeh,<br>Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian<br><br>Local Cluster Analysis as a Basis for High-Precision Information Retrieval<br>Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Hadi Amiri<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Join INFOS2008 conference (Natural Language Processing Track)<br><a href="http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/infos2008/htmlPapers/NLP_Track.html">http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/infos2008/htmlPapers/NLP_Track.html</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Khaled<br>________________________________________________________________________________________<br>Prof. Khaled Shaalan<br>Computer Science Dept.<br>Faculty of Computers & Information<br>Cairo Univ.<br><br>5 Ahmed Zewel St.,<br>Orman, Dokki,<br>Giza<br>12613 Egypt<br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:k.shaalan@fci-cu.edu.eg">k.shaalan@fci-cu.edu.eg</a><br>Personal Email: <a href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@gmail.com">khaled.shaalan@gmail.com</a><br><br>Honorary Fellow<br>School of Informatics<br>University of Edinburgh, UK<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 20 Mar 2008</div></div></div></body></html>