| Session 1: Opening Session | ||
| 09.00 | Mike Rosner Shuly Wintner |
Welcome and Opening |
| 09.30 | Keynote Speaker Sergei Nirenburg |
Tools for Descriptive Computational Linguistics And Their Application to Some Issues in Processing Semitic Languages |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: Morphology | ||
| 11.00 | Aaron Macks | Parsing Akkadian Verbs with Prolog |
| 11.30 | Raphael Finkel and Gregory Stump |
Generating Hebrew Verb Morphology by Default Inheritance Hierarchies |
| 12.00 | Saleem Abuleil, Khalid Alsamara and Martha Evens | Acquisition System for Arabic Noun Morphology |
| 12.30 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3: Data Driven Approaches | ||
| 14.00 | Ya'akov Gal | An HMM approach to vowel restoration in Arabic and Hebrew |
| 14.30 | Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kevin Knight | Machine Transliteration of Names in Arabic Texts |
| 15.00 | Kareem Darwish | Building a Shallow Arabic Morphological Analyser in One Day |
| 15.30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: Beyond the Word Level | ||
| 16.00 | Bassam Hammo, Hani Abu-Salem, Steve Lytinen, Martha Evens | QARAB: A Question Answering System to Support the Arabic Language |
| 16.30 | Uzzi Ornan | A Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Search Engine for Hebrew Texts |
| 17.00 | Dror Kamir, Naama Soreq, Yoni Neeman | A Comprehensive NLP System for Modern Standard Arabic and Modern Hebrew |
| 17.30 |
Break |
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| 18.00 | Shuly Wintner Mike Rosner |
Concluding Session |
| 18.30 | End of Workshop | |