[EAR-Announce] Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL 2001

[steven@let.uu.nl]

                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                           ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop
                                      
              ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects
                                      
                    Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001
                                      
                              Co-organized by:
                                      
                               ELSNET NAPLUS 
   
    WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION:
    
   The objective of the workshop is threefold.
     * First of all we want 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 want 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.
       
    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 
   Kenneth R. Beesley

   9:45-10:00 A major offshoot of the DIINAR-MBC project: AraParse,a
   morpho-syntactic analyzer of unvowelled Arabic texts 
   Riadh Ouersighni

   10:00-10:15 Arabic Morphology: A Categorial Approach
   Allan Ramsay and Hanady Mansur

   10:15-10:30 On lemmatization in Arabic - a formal definition of the
   Arabic entries of multilingual lexical databases 
   Joseph Dichy

   10:30-10:45 BREAK

   10:45-11:00 A Formal Grammar for the Description of Sentence Structure
   in Modern Standard Arabic
   Everhard Ditters

   11:00-11:15 A modifiable structural editor of grammars for arabic
   processing
   Andre Jaccarini

   11:15-11:30 Towards Understanding Arabic: A Logical Approach for
   Semantic Representation
   Bassam Haddad and Mustafa Yaseen

   11:30-11:45 Dictionary Definitions and Corpus-Based Evidence in Modern
   Standard Arabic
   Salem Ghazali and Abdelfattah Braham

   11:45-12:00 A Term Base Translator Over the Web
   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
   Xavier Lelubre

   14:15-14:30 Assessment of a Significant Arabic Corpus
   Abduelbaset Goweder and Anne De Roeck

   14:30-14:45 Difficulties facing Electronic publishing for Arabic
   Language
   Nadia Hegazi

   14:45-15:00 Arabic/English Cross Language Information Retrieval Using
   a Bilingual Dictionary
   Ahmad Hasnah and Martha Evens

   15:00-15:10 A Tool for Arabic Documents Indexing and Retrieval From a
   Web Virtual Library
   Lamia Labed Jilani and Hichem Haouala

   15:10-15:20 The TREC-2001 Arabic Information Retrieval Eveluation
   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
   Safa Nasser Eldin, Hanna Abdel Nour and Abdenbi Rajouani

   15:30-15:45 BREAK

   15:45-16:00 Invited Talk : Erwin Valentini (EU)

   16:00-16:10 A Formalization Tool for Comparing Syntax Structures in
   Written and Spoken MSA Corpora
   Sameh Al-Ansary

   16:10-16:20 CLARA (Corpus Linguae Arabicae): An Overview
   Petr Zemanek

   16:20-16:30 Towards the design of English-Arabic terminological and
   lexical knowledge base
   Sabri Elkatib and William J. Black

   16:30-16:40 Turning Arabic Texts into Active Documents
   Manfred Stede and Gerhard Wedel

   16:40-16:50 Computational Processing of Spoken North Israeli Arabic
   Rafi Talmon and Shuly Wintner

   16:50-17:00 Statistical Classification Methods for Arabic News
   Articles
   Hassan Sawaf, Jorg Zaplo and Hermann Ney

   17:00-17:10 Arabic-English NLP at CRL
   Remi Zajac, Ahmed Malki and Ahmed Abdelali

   17:10-17:20 Sakhr Web-based Arabic-English MT engine
   Achraf Chalabi

   17:20-17:30 Tokenizing an Arabic Script Language
   Siamak Rezaei

   17:30-17:40 Brill's POS tagger and a Morphology parser for Arabic
   Andrew Freeman

   17:40-17:50 A Computational Lexeme-Based Treatment of Arabic
   Morphology
   Abdelhadi Soudi, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza and Abderrahim Jamari

   17:50-18:00 The Sarfiyya project: Results and perspectives in
   morphological parsing of arabic texts without using a lexicon 
   Christian Gaubert

   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 REGISTRATION:
    
   For registration and other details, please visit the main site of the
   ACl/EACL 2001 conference: http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001
   
   NB: It is NOT possible to register for the workshop only. Participants
   have to register (and pay) for the main conference as well.
   
    WORKSHOP URL:
    
   http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html
   
    CONTACT INFO:
    
   Steven Krauwer      email: steven.krauwer@elsnet.org
   ELSNET / UiL OTS    www:   http://www.elsnet.org
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