ARABIC Language Resources and Evaluation

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 The workshop Preliminary Program at glance

Morning Session

Program Committee: Introduction to 9:00-9:30 Khalid Choukri Joseph Dichy the workshop Steven Krauwer Mustafa Yaseen

09:30-09:50 Challenges in Arabic speech Ossama Emam processing

09:50-10:10 OrienTel – Arabic speech resources Rainer Sigmund for the IT market

10:10-10:30 Speech Synthesis for Arabic Abdelhak MOURADI

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:20 Challenges in Arabic NLP Achraf Chalabi

11:20-11:50 Arabic lexica in a multilingual context Joseph Dichy

11:50-12:10 Information retrieval in Arabic, cross- Malek Boualem language information retrieval and question-answering

12:10-14:00 LUNCH BREAK Afternoon Session

14:00-14:20 The Semi-automatic Tagging of Arabic Mark Van Mol Corpora

14:20-14:40 Data Set for Designing and Testing an Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi Arabic Stemmer

14:40-15:00 Arabic Character Recognition using Mohammed Zeki Khedher Approximate Stroke Sequence

15:00-15:20 Logical aspects of unification based- Bassam Haddad, Mustafa Yaseen, Arabic Semantic construction Mudhafar Al-Jarrah

15:20-15:40 A Prototype English-to-Arabic Abdelhadi Soudi, Violetta Cavalli- Interlingua-based MT system Sforza and Abderrahim Jamari

15:40-16:00 Computational Functional Evaluation of Mahmud Shokrollahifar Translations of Arabic Classical LR

16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-16:50 Evaluating Arabic Retrieval from English Douglas W. Oard, Fredric C. Gey, and or French Queries: The TREC-2001 Bonnie J. Dorr Cross-Language Information Retrieval Track

16:50-17:10 Arabic Document Topic Analysis Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat

17:10-17:30 Arabic Intelligent Retrieval System For El Achkar Mona, RAMMAL Mahmoud, Legal Database ( AIRS LD) NABHAN Philipe

17:30-18:30 Program Committee and All participants Panel discussion The workshop Preliminary Program

Morning Session

Introduction to the workshop by the Program Committee

Challenges in Arabic speech processing, Ossama Emam, IBM Speech Technology R&D, Egypt,

OrienTel – Arabic speech resources for the IT market; Rainer Sigmund, Barbara Heuft (Philips, Germany) et. al.

Speech Synthesis for Arabic Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco

Challenges in Arabic NLP , Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR, Egypt

Arabic lexica in a multilingual context Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2 University, France

Information retrieval in Arabic, cross-language information retrieval and question- answering Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France

Afternoon session

The Semi-automatic Tagging of Arabic Corpora Mark Van Mol, Catholic University Leuven, ILT, Dekenstraat 6, B 3000 Leuven;

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

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

Logical aspects of unifications based-Arabic Semantic construction Bassam Haddad, Mustafa Yaseen, Mudhafar Al-Jarrah, Faculty of Information Technology, Amman University , Jordan.

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

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)

Evaluating Arabic Retrieval from English or French Queries: The TREC-2001 Cross- Language Information Retrieval Track 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,

Arabic Document Topic Analysis Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

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

Panel discussion ARABIC Language Resources and Evaluation: Status and Prospects Major issues:  Key elements for Language Resources and evaluation roadmaps  Identifying priorities  Networking aspects Workshop Committees

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, Paris, France Joseph Dichy, Lyon –2 university, Lyon, France Steven Krauwer, ELSNET and Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University; Jordan

WORKSHOP SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Abdelhadi Soudi; ENIM; MOROCCO; Abdelhak MOURADI; ENSIAS; Morocco Abdelkader FASSI-FEHRI; IRA; morocco Achraf Chalabi ; Sakhr; Egypt Bassam Haddad; Amman University ; Jordan Chafic Mokbel; University of Balamand;Lebanon, Everhard Ditters; University of Nijmegen, ;The Netherlands Fathi DEBILI;CELLMA – ENS LSH Lyon ;France Jean Senellart ;SYSTRAN; France; John Makhoul ; BBN Technologies, GTE Corp.; USA Malek Boualem; FTRD/DMI/LAN; France Mohamed Hassoun ; ENSIB, Lyon; France Mohamed Maamouri ; LDC; Pen University; USA. Mohsen Rashwan; RDI; Egypt; Ossama Emam ; Ibm ; Egypt Salem Ghazali ; IRSIT; Tunisia; Salim Roukos; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; USA Violetta Cavalli-Sforza; San Francisco State University; USA

CONTACT POINT:

Khalid CHOUKRI [email protected] ELRA CEO Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 Postal Mail: 55 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 Paris France

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE URL:

http://www.lrec-conf.org/

Papers …………

Introduction to the workshop by the Program Committee

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

OrienTel – Arabic speech resources for the IT market; Rainer Sigmund, Barbara Heuft (Philips, Germany) et. al.

Speech Synthesis for Arabic Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco ………. Paper not available , will be supplied within on the second version of the proceedings

Challenges in Arabic NLP , Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR, Egypt

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

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

The Semi-automatic Tagging of Arabic Corpora Mark Van Mol, Catholic University Leuven, ILT, Dekenstraat 6, B 3000 Leuven;

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

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 Logical aspects of unification based-Arabic Semantic construction Bassam Haddad, Mustafa Yaseen, Mudhafar Al-Jarrah, Faculty of Information Technology, Amman University , Jordan.

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

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)

Evaluating Arabic Retrieval from English or French Queries: The TREC-2001 Cross-Language Information Retrieval Track 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,

Arabic Document Topic Analysis Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

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