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Opening Session |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Issues in the study of Arabic script-based languages
Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian |
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Session 1 |
| 9:30-10:00 |
STeP-1: Standard Text Preparation for Persian Language
Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Soheila Kiani, and Yaser Shahedi (Shahid Beheshti University) |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Construction of a Persian letter-to-sound conversion system based on classification and regression tree
Mohammad Mehdi Arab and Ali Azimizadeh (Zaban Avaran Pars, Iran) |
10:30-10:45 |
BREAK
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Session 2 |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Corpus-based analysis for multi-token units in Persian
Massoud Sharifi-Atashgah and Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University)
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Automatic extraction of lemma-based bilingual dictionaries for morphologically rich languages
Ibrahim Saleh (Georgetown University) and Nizar Habash (Columbia University) |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Automatic translation between English and Persian texts
Chakaveh Saedi, Mehrnoush Shamsfard and Yasaman Motazadi (Shahid Beheshti University) |
12:15-1:30 |
LUNCH
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Session 3 |
| 1:30-2:00 |
NP subject detection in verb-initial Arabic clauses
Spence Green, Conal Sathi, and Christopher D. Manning (Stanford University) |
| 2:00-2:30 |
A unification-based approach to the morphological analysis and generation of Arabic
Selçuk Köprü and Jude Miller (AppTek, Inc.) |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Endoclitics in Pashto: Can they really do that?
Craig Kopris (AppTek, Inc.) |
3:00-3:30 |
BREAK
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Session 4 |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Developing English-Urdu Machine Translation via Hindi
R. Mahesh K. Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology) |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Investigations on standard Arabic geographical classification
Ahmed Abdelali and Steve Helmreich (New Mexico State University), and Ron Zacharski (University of Mary Washington) |
| 4:30-4:40 |
Closing Remarks
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