PROGRAMME
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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