18.2053, Confs: Computational Ling, Standard Arabic, Western Farsi/USA
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Date: 06-Jul-2007
From: Karine Megerdoomian < karine at mitre.org >
Subject: Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages
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Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:05:07
From: Karine Megerdoomian < karine at mitre.org >
Subject: Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages
Computational Approaches to Arabic Script Languages
Short Title: CAASL-2
Date: 21-Jul-2007 - 22-Jul-2007
Location: Stanford, CA, USA
Contact: Karine Megerdoomian
Contact Email: karine at mitre.org
Meeting URL: http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
Farsi, Western (pes)
Urdu (urd)
Pashto, Central (pst)
Kurdish, Northern (kmr)
Meeting Description:
The goal of the 2nd workshop on "Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based
Languages", held in conjunction with the LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute, is to
bring together researchers working on the computer processing of Arabic
script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto, Urdu
and Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common to all
these languages despite their being of distinct language families, such as right
to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization, complex word
structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to non-representation of short
vowels in the writing system. The workshop will provide the participants with an
opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational
systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to
assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for
future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems
for Arabic script languages.
Call for Participation
The 2nd Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-Based Languages
(CAASL-2)
July 21-22, 2007
LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute
Stanford University, California, USA
http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2
Description
The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the computer
processing of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and
Dari), Pashto, Urdu and Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the
influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that
are common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language
families, such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to
non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.
The workshop will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and
government developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and
experience. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with an
opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational
systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to
assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for
future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems
for Arabic script languages. This second workshop also provides an opportunity
to assess the progress that has been made since the first workshop held at
Coling 2004.
This year's keynote speaker is Prof. Richard Sproat (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign).
This workshop is being held in conjunction with the LSA 2007 Linguistic
Institute at Stanford University.
Workshop Program
Detailed program available at http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2/program.html
DAY 1: Saturday, July 21st, 2007
''Computer processing of Arabic script-based languages: Current state and future
directions'', Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian
''Urdu morphology, orthography and lexicon extraction'', Muhammad Humayoun
(University of Savoy), Harald Hammarström and Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University
of Technology)
''Generating Arabic text from Interlingua'', Khaled Shaalan (The British
University in Dubai), Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo), Azza
Abdelmonem (Central Lab for Agricultural Expert Systems in Egypt), and Hoda
Baraka (Cairo University)
Invited Speaker: ''Named entity transliteration in a variety of scripts'', by
Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
''Information retrieval and the Arabic noun construct'', Ali Farghaly (Oracle USA)
''Using OWA fuzzy operator to merge retrieval systems'', Hadi Amiri, Farhad
Oroumchian, Caro Lucas, and Masoud Rahgozar (University of Tehran)
''A note on extracting 'sentiments' in financial news in English, Arabic and
Urdu'', Yousif Almas (University of Surrey) and Khurshid Ahmad (Trinity College)
''The first parallel multilingual corpus of Persian: Towards a Persian BLARK'',
Behrang Qasemizadeh (Text and Speech Technology LTD), Saeed Rahimi (Text and
Speech Technology LTD/University of Tehran), and Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari
(University of Tehran)
''Supervised lexical acquisition for Persian from a web corpus'', Nick Pendar
(Iowa State University) and Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds)
''A rule-based semantic role labeling approach for Persian sentences'',
Mahrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University) and Maryam Sadrmousavi (Azad
University in Tehran)
DAY 2: Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
''The challenges and pitfalls of Arabic romanization and arabization'', Jack
Halpern (CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.)
''Transcription of names written in Farsi into English'', Joshua Johnson
(Inxight Software, Inc.)
''Automatic transliteration of proper nouns from Arabic to English'', Mehdi M.
Kashani, Fred Popowich, and Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University)
''Implementation of reverse chain mechanism in Pango for rendering Nastaliq
script'', Aamir Wali (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Shafiq-ur
Rahman (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences at Lahore)
''Frame approach to Persian verb generation for educational purposes'', Artem
Lukanin (South Ural State University) and Constance Bobroff (University of Texas
at Austin)
''Statistical POS tagging experiments on Persian text'', Fahimeh Raja
(University of Tehran), Samira Tasharofi (University of Tehran), and Farhad
Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai/University of Tehran)
''Part-of-speech tagging for Persian'', Sanaz Jabbari and Ben Allison
(University of Sheffield)
''Evaluation of part of speech tagging on Persian text'', Fahimeh Raja , Hadi
Amiri , Samira Tasharofi and Hossein Hojjat (University of Tehran) and Farhad
Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai/University of Tehran)
Demos and Posters
''FieldWorks language explorer and Arabic script data'', Beth Bryson (SIL
International)
''The Koran database'', Mahmooud Elsayess (Read~Verse Company)
''Human vision inspired Optical Character Recognition'', Mandana Hamidi (Azad
University of Qazvin), Ali Borji (Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics
and Mathematics) and Fariborz Mahmoudi (Azad University of Qazvin)
''Pashto-English machine translation using TranSphere'', Craig Kopris (AppTek Inc.)
''Speech-Translation of languages with scarce resources'', Hassan Sawaf and
Craig Kopris (AppTek Inc.)
''Extensible integrated Treebank annotation environment'', Otakar Smrz? (Charles
University in Prague)
Alternates
''Algorithm for subject zero pronoun detection and restoration in Urdu
discourse'', Abid Khan, Aamir Khan, and Naveed Ali (University of Peshawar)
''A Persian morphological parser using POS tagging'', Ali Azimizadeh (Center of
Speech Technology Research, SimAva Co), Mohamad Mehdi Arab (Center of Speech
Technology Research, SimAva Co), and Aarvin Farahmand (Ryerson University)
For more information, visit the workshop website at www.zoorna.org/CAASL2
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