LINGUIST List 15.1939

Mon Jun 28 2004

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1. karinem, Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages

Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages 
Short Title: coling2004 workshop 

Date: 28-Aug-2004 - 28-Aug-2004
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Contact: Karine Megerdoomian
Contact Email: karineminxight.com 
Meeting URL: http://members.cox.net/karinem/COLING2004 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language: Arabic, Standard ,Kurdi ,Pashto, Southern ,Farsi,
Western ,Urdu

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2004 

This is a session of the following conference: 20th International
Conference on Computational Linguistics


Meeting Description:

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the study of the
languages of the Middle East, especially Arabic, Persian (Farsi),
Pashto and Urdu. Computational applications for proper name
identification, entity recognition, categorization, information
retrieval, summarization, machine translation and other
implementations are currently in high demand. The goal of this
workshop, being held as a session of COLING 2004, is to provide a
forum for those involved in the development of NLP systems in Arabic
script languages to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of
computational systems; to discuss the common challenges faced by all
practitioners; and to assess the state of the art in the field.


The workshop is to be held at the Univeristy of Geneva, Switzerland on
August 28th, 2004.

Invited Speaker: Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Workshop website: http://members.cox.net/karinem/COLING2004


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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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OPENING AND OVERVIEW

8:30-9:00 	
Computer Processing of Arabic Script-based Languages: Current State
and Future Directions
Ali Farghaly


SESSION 1: LEXICON AND CORPORA

9:00-9:30 	
Developing an Arabic Treebank: Methods, Guidelines, Procedures, and
Tools
Mohamed Maamouri and Ann Bies

9:30-10:00 	
Preliminary Lexical Framework for English-Arabic Semantic Resource
Construction
Anne R. Diekema

10:00-10:30 	
The Architecture of a Standard Arabic Lexical Database: Some Figures,
Ratios, and Categories from the DIINAR.1 Source Program
Ramzi Abb�s, Joseph Dichy and Mohamed Hassoun

10:30-10:45 BREAK


SESSION 2: MORPHOLOGY

10:45-11:15 	
Systematic Verb Stem Generation for Arabic
Jim Yaghi and Sane Yagi

11:15-11:45 	
Issues in Arabic Orthography and Morphology Analysis
Tim Buckwalter

11:45-12:15 	
Finite-State Morphological Analysis of Persian
Karine Megerdoomian

12:15-2:00 LUNCH & DEMO SESSIONS
 
DEMONSTRATIONS

Urdu Localization Project
Sarmad Hussain

FarsiSum - A Persian Text Summarizer
Martin Hassel and Nima Mazdak

Stemming the Qur'an
Naglaa Thabet

Language Weaver Arabic->English MT
Daniel Marcu, Alex Fraser, William Wong and Kevin Knight

INVITED SPEAKER

2:00-2:45 	
Arabic Script-Based Languages Deserve to be Studied Linguistically
Martin Kay


SESSION 3: STATISTICAL APPROACHES

2:45-3:15 	
An Unsupervised Approach for Bootstrapping Arabic Sense Tagging
Mona T. Diab

3:15-3:45 	
Automatic Arabic Document Categorization Based on the Naive Bayes
Algorithm
Mohamed El Kourdi, Amine Bensaid and Tajje-eddine Rachidi

3:45-4:00 BREAK


SESSION 4: SPEECH PROCESSING

4:00-4:30 	
A Transcription Scheme for Languages Employing the Arabic Script
Motivated by Speech Processing Applications
Shadi Ganjavi, Panayiotis G. Georgiou and Shrikanth Narayanan

4:30-5:00 	
Automatic Diacritization of Arabic for Acoustic Modeling in Speech
Recognition
Dimitra Vergyri and Katrin Kirchhoff

5:00-5:30 	
Letter-to-Sound Conversion for Urdu Text-to-Speech System
Sarmad Hussain


DISCUSSION AND CLOSING

5:30-6:00 Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian

 	
Accepted papers and formal demonstrations will be published in a
proceedings volume, which will be made available at the workshop.


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WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
=======================

For the workshops to take place, the COLING 2004 organizers require at
least 20 participants to register for the workshop. Speakers and
participants are therefore asked to register via the official Coling
2004 website as soon as possible by visiting
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/.

Workshop fees (in Swiss Francs):
 * Student early chf 90
 * Student late chf 120
 * Student on-site chf 150
 * Regular early chf 120
 * Regular late chf 150
 * Regular on-site chf 180 


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
======================

Ali Farghaly (SYSTRAN Software, Inc.) 
Karine Megerdoomian (Inxight Software and University of California,
San Diego)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
===================


 Jan W. Amtrup (Bowne Global Solutions)
 Tim Buckwalter (Linguistic Data Consortium)
 Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
 Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Carnegie Mellon University)
 Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
 Abdelkadir Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University-Souissi Rabat,
Morocco)
 Andrew Freeman (University of Washington)
 Nizar Habash (University of Maryland, College Park)
 Masayo Iida (Inxight Software, Inc)
 Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
 Martin Kay (Stanford University)
 Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
 Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
 Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
 Jean Senellart (SYSTRAN Software)
 Bonnie Glover Stalls (University of Southern California)
 R�mi Zajac (SYSTRAN Software)