The Eleventh Conference On Language

December 14-15, 2011, Cairo, (ESOLEC'2011)

Organized by

Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ESOLE)

Under the Auspices of

PROF. DR. MOHAMED ELTOKHY Dean, Faculty of Engineering,

CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON PROF. DR. M. A. R. GHONAIMY

CONFERENCE COCHAIRPERSON PROF. DR. SALWA ELRAMLY

Faculty of Engineering –Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

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Conference Chairman: Conference Sponsors Prof. Dr. M. R. A. Ghonaimy

Technical Program Committee: Prof. Taghrid Anber , Egypt Prof. I. Abdel Ghaffar , Egypt Prof. M. Ghaly, Egypt Prof. M. Z. Abdel Mageed, Egypt Prof. Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France Prof. Nadia Hegazy, Egypt Prof. Christopher Ciri, LDC, U.S.A Prof. Mona T. Diab, Stanford U., U.S.A Prof. Ayman ElDossouki, Egypt Prof. Afaf AbdelFattah, Egypt Prof. Y. ElGamal, Egypt Prof. M. Elhamalaway, Egypt Prof. S. Elramly, Egypt Prof. H. Elshishiny, Egypt Prof. A. A. Fahmy, Egypt Prof. I. Farag, Egypt Prof. Magdi Fikry, Egypt Prof. Wafa Kamel, Egypt Prof. S. Krauwer, Netherlands Prof. Bente Maegaard, CST, Denmark Prof. A. H. Moussa, Egypt Prof. M. Nagy, Egypt Prof. A. Rafae, Egypt Prof. Mohsen Rashwan, Egypt Prof. H.I. Shaheen, Egypt Prof. S.I. Shaheen, Egypt Prof. Hassanin M. AL-Barhamtoshy, Egypt Prof. M. F. Tolba, Egypt Dr. Tarik F. Himdi, Saudi Arabia

Organizing Committee

Prof. I. Farag Prof. S. Elramly Prof. Taghride Anbar Prof. Hany Kamal Prof. H. Shahein Dr. Mostafa Aref Dr. Passant El-kafrawy Dr. Fatma Newaigy Eng. A Mausad Eng. Manar Ahmed Eng. Mona Zakaria Eng. Bassant A. Hamid

Conference Secretary General

Prof. Dr. Salwa Elramly

The Eleventh Conference on Language Engineering Final Program

Wednesday 14 December 2011

9.00 - 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 10.30 Opening Session 10.30 - 11.30 Session 1: Invited Paper 1: Chairman: Prof. Dr. M. Adeeb Riad Ghonaimy From Data to Nuanced Information: Making Implicit Knowledge Useful Mona Diab Columbia University, USA

11.30 - 12.15 Coffee break

12.15 - 14.00 Session 2: Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval Chairman: Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Farag

1. Analyzing Arabic Diacritization Errors of MADA and Sakhr Diacritizer Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Metwally, Mostafa Ramadan Arabic NLP Researches, Sakhr Software

2. SAFAR platform and its morphological layer Younes Souteh and Karim Bouzoubaa Mohammadia School of Engineers, Mohammed 7th University - Adgal, Rabat, Morocco.

3. Arabic Information Retrieval: How to Get “Good” Results at a Lower Cost? Claude Audebert*, André Jaccarini *, Christian Gaubert** *Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH) **Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire (IFAO)

4. Representing Arabic Documents Using Controlled Vocabulary Extracted from Wikipedia Mohamed I. Eldesouki*, Waleed M. Arafa*, Kareem Darwish**, Mervat H. Gheith* * Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, , Egypt **Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Qatar

14.00 - 15.00 Lunch

15.00 - 17.00 Session 3: Machine Translation: Chairman: Prof. Dr. Mohamad Zaki Abdel Mageed 1. Linguistically Motivated Reordering Constraints for Phrase- based SMT: Base Phrase Chunks and Predicate Argument Structures Mahmoud Ghoneim*, Marine Carpuat**, Mona Diab* *Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, USA ** NRC Institute for Information Technology, CANADA

2. English to Arabic Statistical Machine Translation System Improvements using Preprocessing and Arabic Morphology Analysis Shady Abdel Ghaffar*, Mohamed Waleed Fakhr** *Faculty of computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Sheraton, Cairo, Egypt **Faculty of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Bahrain, Eissa Town, Bahrain

3. Interlingua-based Machine Translation Systems: UNL versus Other Interlinguas Sameh Alansary Phonetics and Linguistics Department Faculty of Arts, , Alexandria, Egypt.

4. The UNL Editor: A Manual Tool for Semantic Annotation Sameh Alansary*, Magdy Nagi**, Noha Adly** *Phonetic and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Alexandria ElShatby, Alexandria, Egypt **Computer and System Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering Alexandria University, Egypt

Thursday 15 December 2011

10.00 - 11.00 Session 4: Room A: Language Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Chairman: Prof. Dr. Taghride Anbar

1. Mining Opinion in Arabic Data: A Comparison Between Supervised and Unsupervised Classification Approaches Ahmed M. Misbah and Ibrahim F. Imam Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt.

2. Generating Lexical Resources for Opinion Mining in Arabic Language Automatically Hanaa Bayomi Ali *, Mohsen Rashwan **, Samir Abd_Elrahman* *Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computers and Information , Cairo University, Egypt. ** Electronics and Communications Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

3. Tapping into the Power of Automatic Scoring Wael H. Gomaa, Aly A. Fahmy Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computers& Information, Cairo University, Egypt.

11.00 - 11.45 Session 5: Invited Paper 2: Chairman: Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Farag اللساوياث الحاسوبيت مه مىظور مجتمع المعزفت د. وبيل على خبيز اللساوياث الحاسوبيت 11.45 - 12.15 Coffee Break

12.15 - 13.00 Session 6: Room A: Invited paper 3: Chairman : Prof. Dr. Mohsen Rashwan أثز تجاور صوتي الفعل الثالثي المضعف في بابه الصزفي: دراست لغويت حاسوبيت على األصواث الذلقيت )ر- ل- ن( أ.د/ وفاء كامل فايد كليت اآلداب – جامعت القاهزة

13.00 - 14.30 Session 7: Room A: Language Analysis and Comprehension: Chairman : Prof. Dr. Hani Mahdi

1. Persian Morphology: Description and Implementation Vahid R. Mirzaeian ELT Department, Faculty of Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Farjam Street, Narmak, Tehran, Iran

2. Correctness, Strength and Similarity Evaluation of Stemming Algorithms for Arabic Daoud Daoud*, Christian Boitet** *Pricess Sumaya University for Technology **GETALP, LIG, Université Joseph Fourier

3. Comparative Corpus-Based Study of the Complement Structure of the Verb “Said” and “Qala” in English and Arabic Ateka Nasher*, Sameh Al-Ansary**, and Shadia El-Soussi*** *English Language and Literature Department, Linguistics Branch, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. **Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria Univer University, Alexandria, Egypt. ***Institute of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

4. Automatic Speech Annotation Using HMM based on Best Tree Encoding (BTE) Feature Amr M. Gody, Rania Ahmed Abul Seoud , Mohamed Hassan Electrical Engineering Department, Fayoum University, Egypt

14.30 - 15.30 Lunch

15.30 - 16.30 Session 8: Room A: Semantic Web and Ontology Languages: Chairman : Prof. Dr. Hassanin El-Barhamtoushy 1. An Enhanced Method for Ranking Arabic Web Pages Using Morphological Analysis Esraa Abd Elraouf , Nagwa Lotfy Badr, Mohamed Fahmy Tolba Faculty of Computer Science and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

2. Text Generation Model from Rich Semantic Representations Dalia Sayed, Mostafa Aref, Ibrahim Fathy Department of Computer science, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

3. Implementation of Establishing Global Ontology by Matching and Merging Susan Fisal Ellakwah*, Passent El-Kafrawy**, Mohamed Amin**, El-Sayed El-Azhary* *Central Lab for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES), Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt **Mathematics and CS Department, Faculty of Science, , Egypt

16.30 - 17.00 Session 9: Room A: Closing Session Chairman: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Younis Elhamalawy

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