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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Thursday, June 28, 2007 | |
| 09:00–09:05 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:05–09:55 | Invited Talk – From print to meaning: the case of Arabic. Jan Hajic, Charles University, Czech Republic |
| Session 1: | |
| 09:55–10:20 | ElixirFM – Implementation of Functional Arabic Morphology Otakar Smrz |
| 10:20–10:45 | Implementation of the Arabic Numerals and their Syntax in GF Ali Dada |
| 10:45–11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: | |
| 11:15–11:40 | Person Name Entity Recognition for Arabic Khaled Shaalan and Hafsa Raza |
| 11:40–12:05 | Arabic Cross-Document Person Name Normalization Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ossama Emam and Hany Hassan |
| 12:10–12:35 | Syllable-Based Speech Recognition for Amharic Solomon Teferra Abate and Wolfgang Menzel |
| 12:35–13:00 | Adapting a Medical speech to speech translation system (MedSLT) to Arabic Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Manny Rayner and Beth Ann Hockey |
Friday, June 29, 2007 | |
| Session 1: | |
| 09:00–09:25 | Finding Variants of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic Abdusalam F.A. Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi and Falk Scholer |
| 09:25–09:50 | Can You Tag the Modal? You Should. Yael Netzer, Meni Adler, David Gabay and Michael Elhadad |
| 09:55–10:20 | Arabic Tokenization System Mohammed Attia |
| 10:20–10:45 | Arabic to French Sentence Alignment: Exploration of A Cross-language Information Retrieval Approach Nasredine Semmar and Christian Fluhr |
| 10:45–11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: | |
| 11:15–11:40 | An Arabic Slot Grammar Parser Michael McCord and Violetta Cavalli-Sforza |
| 11:40–12:05 | Improved Arabic Base Phrase Chunking with a new enriched POS tag set Mona Diab |
| 12:10–12:35 | Smoothing a Lexicon-based POS Tagger for Arabic and Hebrew Saib Manour, Khalil Sima’an and Yoad Winter |
| 12:35–13:00 | An Amharic Stemmer : Reducing Words to their Citation Forms Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker |