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  Arabic NLP/MT Conference
Monday, 23 October 2006, London, U.K.

 
List of papers
The Keynote Speaker is Prof. Anne de Roeck, Professor of Computing, The Open University, UK.
 
Other papers will be delivered in 25-30 minutes each followed immediately by 5 minutes of question and answer time.
 
Facilities are available for the display of computer information for illustration purposes.
 
A detailed schedule will be published here in early September.
 
The papers will be published in a set of Proceedings to be available for delegates at the Conference.
 
DCU 250 Arabic Dependency Bank: An LFG Gold Standard Resource for the Arabic Penn Treebank
Yafa Al-Raheb, A. Akrout, J. van Genabith (Dublin City University, Eire)
Presenter: Yafa Al-Raheb

An Ambiguity-Controlled Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic Modeling Finite State Networks
Mohammed A. Attia (University of Manchester,UK)
Presenter: Mohammed A. Attia

Challenges of Building an Arabic WordNet
Sabri Elkateb, William Black (University of Manchester, UK), Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, The Netherlands), David Farwell, Horacio Rodríguez (University of Catalonia, Spain), Adam Pease (Articulate Software Inc., USA), Musa Alkhalifa (University of Barcelona, Spain), Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)  
Presenter: Sabri Elkateb

Problems of Arabic Machine Translation: evaluation of three systems
Sattar Izwaini (Abu Dhabi University, UAE)
Presenter: Sattar Izwaini

Effective Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval
Youssef Kadri, Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Presenter: Youssef Kadri

Automatic Transliteration of Proper Nouns from Arabic to English
Mehdi M. Kashani, Fred Popowich, (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Fatiha Sadat (National Research Council, Canada).
Presenter: Mehdi M. Kashani

Diacritization: A Challenge to Arabic Treebank Annotation and Parsing
Mohamed Maamouri, Seth Kulick, Ann Bies (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Presenter: Mohamed Maamouri

Standard Arabic formalization and linguistic platform for its analysis
Slim Mesfar (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
Presenter: Slim Mesfar

Challenges in Processing Colloquial Arabic
Alla Rozovskaya, Richard Sproat, Elabbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois, USA)
Presenter: Alla Rozovskaya

Using Cross-language Information Retrieval for Arabic-English Sentence Alignment
Nasredine Semmar, Meriama Laib, Christian Fluhr (Commissariat ŕ l’Energie Atomique, France)
Presenter: Nasredine Semmar

Mapping Interlingua Representations to Feature Structures of Arabic Sentences
Khaled Shaalan (British University in Dubai, UAE), Azza Abdel Monem (Agriculture Research Center, Egypt), Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo, Egypt), Hoda Baraka (Cairo University, Egypt)
Presenter: Dr. Khaled Shaalan

Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank
Otakar Smrz (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Presenter: Otakar Smrz