The
Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT
International Conference
at The British Computer Society (BCS)
23 October 2006
Contents
Keynote
Speaker (Professor Anne de Roek,
Challenges
to Arabic NLP
Challenges in Processing Colloquial Arabic. Alla
Rozovskaya (presenter), Richard Sproat, Elabbas Benmamoun (
Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic. Sabri
Elkateb (presenter), William Black (University of Manchester, UK), Piek
Vossen (Irion Technologies, The Netherlands), David Farwell, Horacio
Rodríguez (University of Catalonia, Spain), Adam Pease (Articulate
Software Inc., USA), Musa Alkhalifa (University of Barcelona, Spain), Christiane
Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) 15
Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency
Treebank. Otakar Smrž (
Diacritization: A Challenge to Arabic Treebank
Annotation and Parsing. Mohamed Maamouri (presenter), Seth
Kulick, Ann Bies (
Mohammed
A. Attia (
Effective Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval.
Youssef Kadri (presenter), Jian-Yun Nie (
Applications
and Resources
Automatic Transliteration of Proper Nouns from
Arabic to English. Mehdi M. Kashani (presenter), Fred Popowich
(Simon Fraser University, Canada), Fatiha Sadat (National Research
Council,
Standard Arabic Formalization and Linguistic
Platform for its Analysis. Slim Mesfar (Université de Franche-Comté, France) 84
Using Cross-language
Information Retrieval for Sentence Alignment.
Nasredine Semmar (presenter), Meriama Laib,
Christian Fluhr (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France) 95
DCU 250 Arabic Dependency Bank: An LFG Gold
Standard Resource for the Arabic Penn Treebank. Yafa Al-Raheb
(presenter), A. Akrout, J. van Genabith (
Machine
Translation
Problems of Arabic Machine Translation: Evaluation
of Three Systems. Sattar Izwaini (
Mapping Interlingua Representations to Feature
Structures of Arabic Sentences. Khaled Shaalan (