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Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

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