HLT & NLP within the Arabic world:

Arabic Language and local languages processing:

Status Updates and Prospects

Saturday 31st May 2008

09:00 – 17:50

Draft programme

 

09:00 - 09:20

Introduction: State-of-the-art, major issues and current initiatives for Arabic and Local languages

Khalid Choukri

 

09:20 - 10:00

Chair:

Mona Diab

Invited speech: Arabic WordNet

Horacio Rodriguez,

Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics.

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 

10:05 - 11:45

Chair:

Paolo Rosso

Oral Session: Applications and Technologies for Written language

 

Information retrieval in Arabic language

Malek Boualem, Ramzi Abbes

 

Methods for porting NL-based restricted e-commerce systems into other languages

Najeh Hajlaoui, Daoud Maher Daoud, Christian Boitet

 

Arabic-English translation improvement by target-side neural network language modeling

Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa, F. Zamora-Martínez, María J. Castro-Bleda, S. España-Boquera

 

Building an Arabic Morphological Analyzer as part of an Open Arabic NLP Platform

Lahsen Abouenour, Said El Hassani, Tawfiq Yazidy, Karim Bouzouba, Abdelfattah Hamdani

 

Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Conditional Random Fields

Yassine Benajiba and Paolo Rosso

 

11:45 - 12:00 

Coffee Break

 

12:00 - 13:30 

Poster Session

 

Automatic versus interactive analysis for the massive vowelization, tagging and lemmatization of Arabic

Fathi Debili,  Zied Ben Tahar

 

Can the building of corpus-based Arabic concordances with AraConc and DIINAR.1 tackle the issue of Arabic polyglossia?

Joseph Dichy and Ramzi Abbès

 

Morpho-syntactic tagging system for Arabic texts

A. Yousfi , A. El jihad, and L. Aouragh

 

Memory-Based Vocalization of Arabic

Sandra Kübler, Emad Mohamed

 

Towards a syntactic lexicon of Arabic Verbs

Noureddine Loukil, Kais Haddar, Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou

 

Automatic Morphological Rule Induction for Arabic

Ahmad Hany Hossny,  Khaled Shaalan, Aly Fahmy

 

Amazigh Data Base

El Mehdi Iazzi, Mohamed Outahajala

 

13:30- 14:30

Lunch

 

14:30 - 15:30

Chair :Bente Maegaard

Oral Session: Applications and Technologies for Spoken language

 

Towards a human-machine spoken dialogue in Arabic

Younes Bahou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou

 

Broadcast News Transcription Baseline System using the NEMLAR database

R. Bayeh, C. Mokbel, G. Chollet

 

Automatic Pronunciation Dictionary Toolkit for Arabic

Hussein Hiyassat, Mustafa Yaseen, Nihad Arabiat

 

15:30 - 16:30:

Chair: Abdelhadi Soudi

 

Oral Session: Arabic and varieties

 

Guidelines for Annotation of Arabic Dialectness

Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab and Reem Kanjawi-Faraj

 

Language modeling for local and Modern Standard Arabic

Ilana Heintz, Chris Brew

 

Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank: A Word on the Million Words

Otakar Smrz, Viktor Bielicky, Iveta Kourilova, Jakub Kracmar, Jan Hajic, Petr Zemanek

 

16:30- 16:50

Coffee break

 

16:50 - 17:50

Moderator:

Khalid Choukri

Panel discussion: Arabic(s) and Language processing : basics & trends