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Date: 20 Mar 2008
From:"Prof_Khaled Shaalan" <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject:Cairo NLP Conference

INFOS 2008

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems
                           27 – 29 March, 2008
                                 Cairo, EGYPT

                                 Special Track
                                         On
                       Natural Language Processing

                               Program Schedule

March 27th: 3:30 – 5:30
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>>>>>>>> NLP 1: Text Summarization and Learning Techniques <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France
Co-Chair: Dr Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and
Management of Sfax, Tunisia

Data Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory
Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora
Hermann Moisl

News Aggregating System with Automatic Summarization Based on Local
Multiple Alignment
Takaharu Takeda, Atsuhiro Takasu

A Learning Technique to Determine Criteria for Multiple Document  
Summarization
Fatma Kallel Jaoua, Maher Jaoua, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Abdelmajid  
Ben Hamadou

SDRT based CSP problem planning approach for merging predefined
messages in human-machine interaction

systems
Pierre Hankach, Laurence Danlos, Franck Panaget

What can NLP techniques do for eLearning?
Paola Monachesi, Eline Westerhout

ASKME: Adaptive and Self-evolving Knowledge-base for Mobile Environments
Hassan Artail,	Jad El Hage, Reda Aouad, Kassem Fawaz

March 28th:9:30 -11:10
++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 2:  Arabic Natural Language Processing (I) <<<<<<<<

Chair: Dr Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle, UK
Co-Chair: Dr Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt

Estimating phone lengths for a diphone-based text-to-speech system for  
Arabic
Allan Ramsay, Hanady Mansour

Combined Classifier Based Arabic Speech Recognition
Ehab Eissa, Ahmed Tolba, Samir El Mougy

AraConc, an Arabic Concordance software
Ramzi Abbès, Joseph Dichy

A Web-Based Approach for Arabic PP Attachment
Rania Al-Sabbagh, Khaled Elghamry



March 28th: 3:30 - 5:30
++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>> NLP 3: Arabic Natural Language Processing (II) <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA
Co-Chair: Doaa Samy, Cairo University, Egypt

Enhanced Annotation and Parsing of the Arabic Treebank
Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick

Using the Web in Building A Corpus-Based Hypernymy-Hyponymy Lexicon
with Hierarchical Structure for Arabic
Khaled Elghamry

A Hybrid Approach for Converting Written Egyptian Colloquial Dialect
into Diacritized Arabic
Hitham M. Abo Bakr, Khaled Shaalan, Ibrahim Ziedan

Naïve Bayes Classifier for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation
Samir Elmougy, Taher Hamza, and Hatem M. Noaman

Improving KNN Arabic Text Classification With N-Grams Based Document  
Indexing
Riyad Al-Shalabi, Rasha Obeidat

Holistic Approach for Classifying and Retrieving Personal Arabic
Handwritten Documents
Salama Brook, Zaher Al Aghbari

March 29th:9:30 -11:30
++++++++++++++++++

>>>>>>>> NLP 4: Information Extraction <<<<<<<<

Chair: Prof Mohamed Maamouri, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC),
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Co-Chair: Dr Said Tazi, LAAS-CNRS, France

Hybrid, Three-stage Named Entity Recognizer for Tamil
S. Lakshmana Pandian, Krishnan Aravind Pavithra, T.V. Geetha

Chatbots are natural web interface to information portals
Bayan Abu Shawar

Ontology Learning from Textual Web Documents
Maryam Hazman, Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Ahmed Rafea

Enhancing English/Arabic CLIR Using Word Collocations and Statistical
Translation and Transliteration Resources
Tarek A. Elghazaly, Aly A. Fahmy

Recognizing semi-automatically author's intentions from scientific  
documents
Hassan Kanso, Ali Elhore, Chantal Soulé-Dupuy, Saïd Tazi


March 29th:9:30 -11:30
++++++++++++++++++

>>>>>>>> NLP 5: Persian Natural Language Processing <<<<<<<<

Chair: Dr Kareem Darwish, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co-Chair: Dr. Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University, NL

A Romanized Transcription for Persian
Jalal Maleki

Automatic term extraction for cross-language information retrieval
using a bilingual parallel corpus
Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

Using Heuristic Rules to Improve Persian Part of Speech Tagging Accuracy
Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian, Masoud Rahgozar

Tuning Lambda Parameter for Language Modeling Based Persian Retrieval
Hadi Amiri, Ashkan Zarnani, Mahbod.Tavallaee, Sadra Abedinzadeh,
Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian

Local Cluster Analysis as a Basis for High-Precision Information  
Retrieval
Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Hadi Amiri



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Join INFOS2008 conference (Natural Language Processing Track)
http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/infos2008/htmlPapers/NLP_Track.html

Regards,
Khaled
________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Khaled Shaalan
Computer Science Dept.
Faculty of Computers & Information
Cairo Univ.

5 Ahmed Zewel St.,
Orman, Dokki,
Giza
12613 Egypt

Email: k.shaalan at fci-cu.edu.eg
Personal Email: khaled.shaalan at gmail.com

Honorary Fellow
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

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