Invited Speaker

Prof. Michael Gasser Computer Science/Cognitive Science, Indiana University
will talk on Finite state morphology for Ethiopian Semitic languages.

Programme

09:00-10:00 Opening + Keynote

  
    Finite State Morphology for Ethiopian Semitic languages
    Prof. Michael Gasser, Indiana University

09:30-10:30 Philology

    How to Establish a Verbal Paradigm on the Basis of Ancient Syriac Manuscripts
    Wido van Peursen

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Morphology

    The Karamel System and Semitic Languages: Structured Multi-Tiered Morphology
    Francois Barthelemy

    Revisiting Multi-tape Automata for Semitic Morphological Analysis and Generation
    Mans Hulden

    A Hybrid Approach for Building Arabic Diacritizer
    Khaled Shaalan, Hitham M. Abo Bakr and Ibrahim Ziedan

12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Applications

    
    Unsupervised Concept Discovery In Hebrew Using Simple Unsupervised 
    Word Prefix Segmentation for Hebrew and Arabic
    Elad Dinur, Dmitry Davidov and Ari Rappoport

    Automatic Treebank-Based Acquisition of Arabic LFG Dependency Structures
    Lamia Tounsi, Mohammed Attia and Josef van Genabith

    Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Phonotactic Modeling
    Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg and Nizar Habash

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17.30 Applications

    Structure-based evaluation of an Arabic semantic Query Expansion using the JIRS system
    Lahsen Abouenour, Karim Bouzoubaa and Paolo Rosso
    
    Syntactic Reordering for English-Arabic Phrase-Based Machine Translation
    Jakob Elming and Nizar Habash

17.30 Closing

17.30-18.00 Discussion

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