Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL/EACL 2001
ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects
Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001
Co-organized by:
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION:
The objective of the workshop was threefold.
- First of all we wanted to bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as well as on the
availability of products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing.
- Secondly, we wanted to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of
current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc.
- Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic NLP community and the NLP community at large.
PARTICIPATION AND PROCEEDINGS
The workshop was attended by some 40 participants.
Unfortunately the proceedings of the Arabic Workshop are all sold out, and will not be reprinted, due to technical problems caused by the conversion of the Arabic script. As, due to another, unrelated, technical problem the Arabic Workshop
proceedings didn't make it to the ACL2001 CDROM either, the conference organisers and ELSNET have agreed to publish the proceedings on the web. Just click on the titles of the papers in the programme below.
If PowerPoint presentations are available, you can access them by clicking on the time slot in the first column.
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
9:00-9:15 |
OPENING |
9:15-9:45 |
Invited talk: Finite-State Morphological Analysis and Generation of Arabic at Xerox Research: Status and Plans in 2001 |
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Kenneth R. Beesley |
9:45-10:00 |
A major offshoot of the DIINAR-MBC project: AraParse,a morpho-syntactic analyzer of unvowelled Arabic texts |
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Riadh Ouersighni |
10:00-10:15 |
Arabic Morphology: A Categorial Approach |
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Allan Ramsay and Hanady Mansur |
10:15-10:30 |
On lemmatization in Arabic - a formal definition of the Arabic entries of multilingual lexical databases |
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Joseph Dichy |
10:30-10:45 |
BREAK |
10:45-11:00 |
A Formal Grammar for the Description of Sentence Structure in Modern Standard Arabic |
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Everhard Ditters |
11:00-11:15 |
A modifiable structural editor of grammars for arabic processing |
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Andre Jaccarini |
11:15-11:30 |
Towards Understanding Arabic: A Logical Approach for Semantic Representation |
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Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen |
11:30-11:45 |
Dictionary Definitions and Corpus-Based Evidence in Modern Standard Arabic |
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Salem Ghazali and Abdelfattah Braham |
11:45-12:00 |
A Term Base Translator Over the Web |
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Mustafa Yaseen, Bassam Haddad, Harris Papageorgiou, Stelios Piperidis, Mamoun Hattab, Nick Theophilopoulos and Steven Krauwer |
12:00-13:30 |
BREAK |
13:30-14:00 |
Invited Talk: Khalid Choukri (ELRA) |
14:10-14:15 |
A Scientific Arabic Terms Data Base : Linguistic Approach for a Representation of Lexical and Terminological Features |
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Xavier Lelubre |
14:15-14:30 |
Assessment of a Significant Arabic Corpus |
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Abduelbaset Goweder and Anne De Roeck |
14:30-14:45 |
Difficulties facing Electronic publishing for Arabic Language (Cancelled) |
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Nadia Hegazi |
14:45-15:00 |
Arabic/English Cross Language Information Retrieval Using a Bilingual Dictionary |
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Ahmad Hasnah and Martha Evens |
15:00-15:10 |
A Tool for Arabic Documents Indexing and Retrieval From a Web Virtual Library |
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Lamia Labed Jilani and Hichem Haouala |
15:10-15:20 |
The TREC-2001 Arabic Information Retrieval Evaluation |
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Douglas W. Oard and Fredric C. Gey |
15:20-15:30 |
Enhancement of a TTS System for Arabic Concatenative Synthesis by Introducing a Prosodic Model |
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Safa Nasser Eldin, Hanna Abdel Nour and Abdenbi Rajouani |
15:30-15:45 |
BREAK |
15:45-16:00 |
Invited Talk : Erwin Valentini (EU) (Cancelled) |
16:00-16:10 |
A Formalization Tool for Comparing Syntax Structures in Written and Spoken MSA Corpora |
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Sameh Al-Ansary |
16:10-16:20 |
CLARA (Corpus Linguae Arabicae): An Overview |
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Petr Zemanek |
16:20-16:30 |
Towards the design of English-Arabic terminological and lexical knowledge base |
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Sabri Elkatib and William J. Black |
16:30-16:40 |
Turning Arabic Texts into Active Documents |
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Manfred Stede and Gerhard Wedel |
16:40-16:50 |
Computational Processing of Spoken North Israeli Arabic |
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Rafi Talmon and Shuly Wintner |
16:50-17:00 |
Statistical Classification Methods for Arabic News Articles |
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Hassan Sawaf, Jorg Zaplo and Hermann Ney |
17:00-17:10 |
Arabic-English NLP at CRL |
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Remi Zajac, Ahmed Malki and Ahmed Abdelali |
17:10-17:20 |
Sakhr Web-based Arabic-English MT engine |
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Achraf Chalabi |
17:20-17:30 |
Tokenizing an Arabic Script Language |
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Siamak Rezaei |
17:30-17:40 |
Brill's POS tagger and a Morphology parser for Arabic |
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Andrew Freeman |
17:40-17:50 |
A Computational
Lexeme-Based Treatment of Arabic Morphology |
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Abdelhadi Soudi, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza and
Abderrahim Jamari |
17:50-18:00 |
Hahooa
Arabic Directory and Arabic Information Retrieval using
NLP |
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Malek Boualem |
18:00-18:30 |
CONCLUSIONS |
PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:
- Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair,
myaseen@cbj.gov.jo)
- Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair,
dichy@univ-lyon2.fr)
- Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET,
The Netherlands (Contact person,
steven.krauwer@elsnet.org)
- Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia
(adn@gnet.tn)
- Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali@irsit.rnrt.tn)
- Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait
(hbh@moe.edu.kw)
- Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France
(senellart@systran.fr)
- Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt
(nhegazy@idsc.gov.eg)
- Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France
(choukri@elda.fr)
- Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France
(malek.boualem@rd.francetelecom.fr)
- Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
(e.ditters@let.kun.nl)
WORKSHOP URL:
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html
CONTACT INFO:
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