[Corpora-List] GURT 2010 Computational Linguistics Sessions

[Graham Katz (E-Mail)]

We invite participation in GURT 2010 http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2010/ 
  special sessions on the Computational Analysis of Arabic

GURT 2010 Computational Analysis of Arabic Sessions

Friday, March 12 2010

9:00-12:45 (pre conference Tutorial)
Introduction to Arabic Computational Linguistics: Modern Standard  
Arabic and Arabic Dialects
Mona Diab and Nizar Habash, Columbia University


Saturday, March 13 2010

9:00-11:00 ICC 105

"Speech Act Classification in Arabic"
Lubna Shala, Vasile Rus, John Kaltner and Art Graesser
"Machine Translation Errors: English and Iraqi Arabic"
Sherri Condon, Dan Parvaz, John Aberdeen, Christy Doran, Andrew  
Freeman and Marwan Awad
"A Quantitative Analysis of the Idafa Construction in the Arabic  
Treebank"
Seth Kulick, Ann Bies and Mohamed Maamouri
"Limitations of Current Arabic-English MT Engines"
Jamal Laoudi, Reginald Hobbs and Clare Voss

1:30-3:00 ICC 105

"Automatic Identification of Arabic non-referential Pronouns Using  
Memory-based Learning"
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
"Spelling Correction for Arabic Dictionary Lookup"
Tim Buckwalter, Sarah Wayland, Anton Rytting, David Zajic, Nathanael  
Lynn, Jeff Carnes, Bridget Grage, Christopher Taylor, Jason White,  
Mike Maxwell and Evelyn Browne
"A resource-light Arabic Named Entity Recognition system"
Wajdi zaghouani, Ralf Steinberger and Bruno Pouliquen

3:15-5:15 ICC 105

"Automatic diacritic recovery in transcripts of Yemeni Arabic for  
training a speech recognition audio model"
Andrew Freeman
"On the East/West Divide in the Treatment of Object Pronouns in  
Written and Spoken Arabic: A Corpus-based Examination of Modern and  
Medieval Writings"
David Wilmsen
"A Lexical-Syntactic Solution to the Problem of (Broken) Plural in  
Arabic"
Khaled Elghamry
"Exploiting Closed-Class Categories for Arabic Segmentation"
Seth Kulick

5:30-6:30 Plenary Address, Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium
"Statistical and Symbolic Paradigms in Arabic Computational Linguistics"
Ali Farghaly
Monterey Institute of International Studies



Graham Katz
Dept. of Linguistics, ICC 456
Georgetown University
37th and O Street, NW
Washington, DC 20057
202-687-7939





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