WS1: Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009 (Wed)
Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

The Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL3) will be held in conjunction with MT Summit XII this year. The topics of the workshop include any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages, with an emphasis on Machine Translation applications.

CONFERENCE PAPERS
Investigations on standard Arabic geographical classification
Ahmed Abdelali and Steve Helmreich (New Mexico State University), and Ron Zacharski (University of Mary Washington)
Construction of a Persian letter-to-sound conversion system based on classification and regression tree
Mohammad Mehdi Arab and Ali Azimizadeh (Azad University, Mashhad)
Disfluency and out-of-vocabulary word processing in Arabic speech understanding
Younès Bahou and Lamia Hadrich Belguth (University of Sfax), and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (LARIS-MIRACL Laboratory, Sfax)
NP subject detection in verb-initial Arabic clauses
Spence Green, Conal Sathi, and Christopher Manning (Stanford University)
Automatic extraction of lemma-based bilingual dictionaries for morphologically rich languages
Ibrahim Saleh (Georgetown University) and Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Endoclitics in Pashto: Can they really do that?
Craig Kopris (AppTek)
A unification-based approach to the morphological analysis and generation of Arabic
Selçuk Köprü and Jude Miller (AppTek)
Automatic translation between English and Persian texts
Chakaveh Saedi and Yasaman Motazadi (Islamic Azad University), and Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University)
Syntactic generation of Arabic in Interlingua-based machine translation framework
Khaled Shaalan (British University in Dubai) and Azza Abdel Monem (Shams University in Cairo), and Ahmed Rafea (American University in Cairo)
STeP-1: Standard Text Preparation for Persian Language
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Soheila Kiani, and Yaser Shahedi (Shahid Beheshti University)
Corpus-based analysis for multi-token units in Persian
Massoud Sharifi-Atashgah and Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University)
Developing English-Urdu Machine Translation via Hindi
R. Mahesh K. Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology)
CONTACT INFO

For further information, please visit the workshop site at http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 or contact the organizing committee at caasl3@arabicscript.org.

Organizing committee:
Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.

Last updated: Mon Aug 17 15:10:12 PDT 2009