Please note the correction on the date of the Workshop: The workshop is to be held in Geneva on the 28th of August, following the regular COLING session.
> -----Original Message----- > Subject: [Mt-list] Call for Participation: Coling Workshop on Arabic > Script Languages > > > ** Call for Participation ** > > COLING 2004 WORKSHOP ON > COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES > > Geneva, Switzerland, 23-27 August 2004 > Invited Speaker: Martin Kay (Stanford University) > http://members.cox.net/karinem/COLING2004 > > > > WORKSHOP THEME > > Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the study of > the languages of the Middle East, especially Arabic, Persian > (Farsi), Pashto, Kurdish and Urdu. The usage of the Arabic > script gives rise to certain issues that are common to all > these languages despite their being of distinct language > families. Hence, these languages share properties such as the > absence of capitalization, right to left direction, lack of > clear word boundaries, complex word structure, a high degree > of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the > writing system, and related encoding issues. Yet the research > on these various languages have rarely been brought together > in a single forum, and most development has been the result > of initiatives by individual research establishments or > industry firms. > > The goal of this workshop 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. In addition, one of the aims of the > workshop is to identify promising areas for future > collaborative research in the development of NLP systems for > Arabic script languages. > > > WORKSHOP PROGRAM > > I. Opening and Overview > 8:30-9:00 Computer Processing of Arabic Script-based > Languages: Current State and Future Directions - Ali Farghaly > > II. 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 > > III. 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 > > IV. 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 > > V. Invited Speaker > 2:00-2:45 Arabic Script-Based Languages Deserve to be Studied > Linguistically - Martin Kay > > VI. 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 > > VII. 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 > > VIII. 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. > > > > 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 > > > ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > > Ali Farghaly (SYSTRAN Software, Inc.) > Karine Megerdoomian (Inxight Software and University of > California, San Diego) > > > 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) > > > > _______________________________________________ > MT-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.computing.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/mt-list > _______________________________________________ MT-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computing.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
