ARABIC Language Resources and Evaluation:
Status and Prospects
A Post Workshop of LREC 2002
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
June 1, 2002
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
CONTENT OF THE PROCEEDINGS
1- Introduction to the workshop by the Program Committee
2- Challenges in Arabic speech processing,
Ossama Emam, IBM Speech Technology R&D, Egypt,
………. Paper not available , will be supplied within the second version of the proceedings
3- OrienTel – Arabic speech resources for the IT market
Rainer Sigmund, Barbara Heuft (Philips, Germany) et. al.
4- Speech Synthesis for Arabic
Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco
………. Paper not available , will be supplied within on the second version of the proceedings
Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR, Egypt
6- Arabic lexica in a multilingual context
Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2 University, France
………. Paper not available , will be supplied within the second version of the proceedings
7- Information retrieval in Arabic, cross-language information retrieval and question-answering
Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France
………. Paper not available , will be supplied within the second version of the proceedings
Afternoon session
Mark Van Mol, Catholic University Leuven, ILT, Dekenstraat 6, B 3000 Leuven;
9- Data Set for Designing and Testing an Arabic Stemmer
Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi & Imad A. Al
sughaiyer, Computer and Electronics Research Institute, King Abdulaziz City
for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
10- Arabic Character Recognition using Approximate Stroke Sequence
Mohammed Zeki Khedher & Dr. Gheith Abandah, *Dept. of Electrical Eng and Dept. of Computer Eng. University of Jordan, Amman – Jordan
11- Logical aspects of unification based-Arabic Semantic construction
Bassam Haddad, Mustafa Yaseen, Mudhafar Al-Jarrah, Faculty of Information Technology, Amman University , Jordan.
12- A Prototype English-to-Arabic
Interlingua-based MT system
Abdelhadi Soudi*, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza ‡ , Abderrahim Jamari #
* CLC, Ecole Nationale de L'Industrie Minérale, Rabat, Morocco
‡ Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
# Institut Universitaire de la
Recherche Scientifique, Rabat, Morocco
13- Computational Functional Evaluation
of Translations of Arabic Classical LR
Mahmoud Shokrollahi-Far, Research Group of Language and Information Engineering, University College of Nabi Akram, Tabriz, Iran.
(PhD student of 'Formal Languages
and their applications at Rovira i Virgil University,Tarragona,Spain)
Douglas W. Oard*, Fredric C. Gey(**), and Bonnie J. Dorr (***)
(*) College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland,
(**) University of California, Berkeley, CA
(***) Computer Science Department and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland,
15- Arabic Document Topic Analysis
Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
16-Arabic
Intelligent Retrieval System For Legal Database ( AIRS LD)
El Achkar Mona, RAMMAL Mahmoud, NABHAN Philipe
Legal Informatics Center, Lebanese University, Tabara bldg Sami Solh st., P.O.B 116/5396, Beirut - Lebanon