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| Arabic NLP/MT Conference
Monday, 23 October 2006, London, U.K. Schedule and Conference Timetable |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Registration of delegates |
| 09:30 - 10:20 | Keynote speech by Prof. Anne de Roeck |
| Challenges to Arabic NLP I | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | "Challenges in Processing Colloquial Arabic"
Alla Rozovskaya, Richard Sproat, Elabbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois, USA) Presenter: Alla Rozovskaya |
| 11:05 - 11:35 | Coffee break |
| Challenges to Arabic NLP II | |
| 11:35 - 12:05 | "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 |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | "Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank"
Otakar Smrz (Charles University, Czech Republic) Presenter: Otakar Smrz |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | "Diacritization: A Challenge to Arabic Treebank Annotation and Parsing"
Mohamed Maamouri, Seth Kulick, Ann Bies (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Presenter: Mohamed Maamouri |
| 13:20 - 14:20 | Lunch |
| Challenges to Arabic NLP III | |
| 14:20 - 14:50 | "An Ambiguity-Controlled Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic Modeling Finite State Networks"
Mohammed A. Attia (University of Manchester,UK) Presenter: Mohammed A. Attia |
| 14:55 - 15:25 | "Effective Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval"
Youssef Kadri, Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada) Presenter: Youssef Kadri |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Mini break |
| Applications and Resources I | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | "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 |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | "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 |
| 16:55 - 17:25 | Tea break |
| Machine Translation | |
| 17:25 - 17:55 | "Problems of Arabic Machine Translation: evaluation of three systems"
Sattar Izwaini (Abu Dhabi University, UAE) Presenter: Sattar Izwaini |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | "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 |
| 18:35 - 18:50 | Mini break |
| Applications and Resources II | |
| 18:50 - 19:20 | "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 |
| 19:25 - 19:55 | "Standard Arabic formalization and linguistic platform for its analysis"
Slim Mesfar (Université de Franche-Comté, France) Presenter: Slim Mesfar |
| 20:00 | Close |