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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:
none'><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:
none'><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>THIRD WORKSHOP ON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:
"Sylfaen","serif"'> COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED
LANGUAGES (CAASL3)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
August 26, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Machine
Translation Summit XII<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><a
href="http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3">http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>The Third
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL3)
will be held in conjunction with MT Summit XII this year. The topics of the
workshop include any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages, with an emphasis
on Machine Translation applications. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>CONFERENCE PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Disfluency
and out-of-vocabulary word processing in Arabic speech understanding</span></b><i><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'> </span></i><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Younès Bahou and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (LARIS-MIRACL Laboratory, Sfax), and
Lamia Hadrich Belguth (University of Sfax)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Endoclitics
in Pashto: Can they really do that?</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Craig Kopris (AppTek)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>A
unification-based approach to the morphological analysis and generation of
Arabic</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Selçuk Köprü and Jude
Miller (AppTek)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>STeP-1:
Standard Text Preparation for Persian Language</span></b><b><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Mehrnoush Shamsfard,
Soheila Kiani, and Yaser Shahedi (Shahid Beheshti University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>NP
subject detection in verb-initial Arabic clauses</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Spence Green (Stanford University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Investigations
on standard Arabic geographical classification</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Ahmed Abdelali and Steve Helmreich (New Mexico State University), and Ron
Zacharski (University of Mary Washington)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Automatic
extraction of lemma-based bilingual dictionaries for morphologically rich
languages</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Nizar Habash (Columbia University) and Ibrahim Saleh (Georgetown University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Corpus-based
analysis for multi-token units in Persian</span></b><span style='font-family:
"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Massoud Sharifi-Atashgah and Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Developing
English-Urdu Machine Translation via Hindi</span></b><b><span style='font-family:
"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>R. Mahesh K. Sinha
(Indian Institute of Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Automatic
translation between English and Persian texts</span></b><b><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Chakaveh Saedi and
Yasaman Motazadi (Islamic Azad University), and Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid
Beheshti University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Syntactic
generation of Arabic in Interlingua-based machine translation framework</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Khaled Shaalan (British University in Dubai)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif";color:navy'>Construction
of a Persian letter-to-sound conversion system based on classification and
regression tree</span></b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><br>
Ali Azimizadeh and Mohammad Mehdi Arab (Azad University, Mashhad)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>CONTACT
INFO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>For
further information, please visit the workshop site at <a
href="http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3</span></a>
or contact the organizing committee at <a href="mailto:caasl3@arabicscript.org"><span
style='color:windowtext'>caasl3@arabicscript.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Organizing
committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Ali
Farghaly, Oracle USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Karine
Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Sylfaen","serif"'>Hassan
Sawaf, AppTek Inc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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