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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 | |
9:00–9:15 | Opening Remarks by Organizers |
Session 1: Morphology | |
9:15–9:40 | Memory-Based Morphological Analysis Generation and Part-of-Speech Tagging of Arabic Erwin Marsi, Antal van den Bosch and Abdelhadi Soudi |
9:40–10:05 | A Finite-State Morphological Grammar of Hebrew Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner |
10:05–10:30 | Morphological Analysis and Generation for Arabic Dialects Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and George Kiraz |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00–11:40 | Invited Talk by Salim Roukos |
Session 2: Applications I | |
11:40–12:05 | Examining the Effect of Improved Context Sensitive Morphology on Arabic Information Retrieval Kareem Darwish, Hany Hassan and Ossama Emam |
12:05–12:30 | Modifying a Natural Language Processing System for European Languages to Treat Arabic in Information Processing and Information Retrieval Applications Gregory Grefenstette, Nasredine Semmar and Faiza Elkateb-Gara |
12:30-2:15 | Lunch Break |
Session 3: Part of Speech Tagging | |
2:15–2:40 | Choosing an Optimal Architecture for Segmentation and POS-Tagging of Modern Hebrew Roy Bar-Haim, Khalil Sima’an and Yoad Winter |
2:40–3:05 | Part of Speech Tagging for Amharic using Conditional Random Fields Sisay Fissaha Adafre |
3:05–3:30 | POS Tagging of Dialectal Arabic: A Minimally Supervised Approach Kevin Duh and Katrin Kirchhoff |
3:30–4:00 | Coffee Break |
Session 4: Applications II | |
4:00–4:25 | The Impact of Morphological Stemming on Arabic Mention Detection and Coreference Resolution Imed Zitouni, Jeffrey Sorensen, Xiaoqiang Luo and Radu Florian |
4:25–4:50 | Classifying Amharic News Text Using Self-Organizing Maps Samuel Eyassu and Björn Gambäck |
4:50–5:15 | Arabic Diacritization Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers Rani Nelken and Stuart M. Shieber |
5:15–5:40 | An Integrated Approach for Arabic-English Named Entity Translation Hany Hassan and Jeffrey Sorensen |
5:40–6:00 | Parting Words \& Discussion |