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Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources

Thursday, June 28, morning

  Hall III
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, morning

  Lounge 10
  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

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