Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources

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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

	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