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DAY 1: Saturday, July 21st, 2007 | Opening Session |
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Computer processing of Arabic script-based
languages: Current state and future directions Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian |
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Urdu morphology, orthography and lexicon extracton Muhammad Humayoun (University of Savoy), Harald Hammarström and Aarne Ranta (Chalmers University of Technology) |
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Invited Speaker |
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| Named entity transliteration in a variety of scripts Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | |
Session: Information Extraction |
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| Information retrieval and the Arabic noun construct Ali Farghaly (Oracle USA) |
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| Using OWA fuzzy operator to merge retrieval systems Hadi Amiri, Farhad Oroumchian, Caro Lucas, and Masoud Rahgozar (University of Tehran) |
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| A note on extracting 'sentiments' in financial news in English, Arabic and Urdu Yousif Almas (University of Surrey) and Khurshid Ahmad (Trinity College) |
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Session: Corpus and Annotation |
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| Supervised lexical acquisition for Persian from a web corpus Nick Pendar (Iowa State University) and Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) |
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DAY 2: Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 |
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Session: Transliteration and Transcription |
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The challenges and pitfalls of Arabic romanization and arabization Jack Halpern (CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.) |
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| Transcription of names written in Farsi into English Joshua Johanson (Inxight Software, Inc. (now Business Objects) |
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| Automatic transliteration of proper nouns from Arabic to English Mehdi M. Kashani, Fred Popowich, and Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University) |
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Session: Tools and Resources |
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Implementation of reverse chain mechanism in Pango for rendering Nastaliq script Aamir Wali (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Shafiq-ur Rahman (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences at Lahore) |
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| Frame approach to Persian verb generation for educational purposes Artem Lukanin (South Ural State University) and Constance Bobroff (University of Texas at Austin) |
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Session: POS Taggers |
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| Persian morphological parser using POS tagging Ali Azimizadeh and Mohamad Mehdi Arab (Center of Speech Technology Research, SimAva Co) |
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| Statistical POS tagging experiments on Persian text Fahimeh Raja (University of Tehran), Samira Tasharofi (University of Tehran), and Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai/University of Tehran) |
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Demo and Poster Session |
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FieldWorks language explorer and Arabic script data
Beth Bryson (SIL International) The Koran database Mahmoud Elsayess (Read~Verse Company) Pashto-English machine translation using TranSphere Craig Kopris (AppTek Inc.) Speech-Translation of languages with scarce resources [poster] Hassan Sawaf and Craig Kopris (AppTek Inc.) Extensible integrated Treebank annotation environment Otakar Smrž (Charles University in Prague) |