<p>ARABIC Language Resources and Evaluation: </p><p>Status and Prospects</p><p>A Post Workshop of LREC 2002</p><p>Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain</p><p>June 1, 2002</p><p> http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html The workshop Preliminary Program at glance</p><p>Morning Session</p><p>Program Committee: Introduction to 9:00-9:30 Khalid Choukri Joseph Dichy the workshop Steven Krauwer Mustafa Yaseen</p><p>09:30-09:50 Challenges in Arabic speech Ossama Emam processing</p><p>09:50-10:10 OrienTel – Arabic speech resources Rainer Sigmund for the IT market</p><p>10:10-10:30 Speech Synthesis for Arabic Abdelhak MOURADI </p><p>10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK</p><p>11:00-11:20 Challenges in Arabic NLP Achraf Chalabi</p><p>11:20-11:50 Arabic lexica in a multilingual context Joseph Dichy</p><p>11:50-12:10 Information retrieval in Arabic, cross- Malek Boualem language information retrieval and question-answering</p><p>12:10-14:00 LUNCH BREAK Afternoon Session</p><p>14:00-14:20 The Semi-automatic Tagging of Arabic Mark Van Mol Corpora</p><p>14:20-14:40 Data Set for Designing and Testing an Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi Arabic Stemmer</p><p>14:40-15:00 Arabic Character Recognition using Mohammed Zeki Khedher Approximate Stroke Sequence</p><p>15:00-15:20 Logical aspects of unification based- Bassam Haddad, Mustafa Yaseen, Arabic Semantic construction Mudhafar Al-Jarrah</p><p>15:20-15:40 A Prototype English-to-Arabic Abdelhadi Soudi, Violetta Cavalli- Interlingua-based MT system Sforza and Abderrahim Jamari</p><p>15:40-16:00 Computational Functional Evaluation of Mahmud Shokrollahifar Translations of Arabic Classical LR</p><p>16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK</p><p>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</p><p>16:50-17:10 Arabic Document Topic Analysis Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat</p><p>17:10-17:30 Arabic Intelligent Retrieval System For El Achkar Mona, RAMMAL Mahmoud, Legal Database ( AIRS LD) NABHAN Philipe</p><p>17:30-18:30 Program Committee and All participants Panel discussion The workshop Preliminary Program</p><p>Morning Session</p><p>Introduction to the workshop by the Program Committee</p><p>Challenges in Arabic speech processing, Ossama Emam, IBM Speech Technology R&D, Egypt, </p><p>OrienTel – Arabic speech resources for the IT market; Rainer Sigmund, Barbara Heuft (Philips, Germany) et. al.</p><p>Speech Synthesis for Arabic Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco</p><p>Challenges in Arabic NLP , Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR, Egypt</p><p>Arabic lexica in a multilingual context Joseph Dichy, Lyon 2 University, France</p><p>Information retrieval in Arabic, cross-language information retrieval and question- answering Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France</p><p>Afternoon session</p><p>The Semi-automatic Tagging of Arabic Corpora Mark Van Mol, Catholic University Leuven, ILT, Dekenstraat 6, B 3000 Leuven; </p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Logical aspects of unifications based-Arabic Semantic construction Bassam Haddad, Mustafa Yaseen, Mudhafar Al-Jarrah, Faculty of Information Technology, Amman University , Jordan.</p><p>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</p><p>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) </p><p>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, </p><p>Arabic Document Topic Analysis Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</p><p>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 </p><p>WORKSHOP SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE </p><p>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</p><p>CONTACT POINT:</p><p>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</p><p>WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE URL:</p><p> http://www.lrec-conf.org/</p><p>Papers …………</p><p>Introduction to the workshop by the Program Committee</p><p>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</p><p>OrienTel – Arabic speech resources for the IT market; Rainer Sigmund, Barbara Heuft (Philips, Germany) et. al.</p><p>Speech Synthesis for Arabic Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco ………. Paper not available , will be supplied within on the second version of the proceedings</p><p>Challenges in Arabic NLP , Achraf Chalabi, SAKHR, Egypt</p><p>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</p><p>Information retrieval in Arabic, cross-language information retrieval and question- answering Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D, Lannion, France</p><p>………. Paper not available , will be supplied within the second version of the proceedings</p><p>Afternoon session</p><p>The Semi-automatic Tagging of Arabic Corpora Mark Van Mol, Catholic University Leuven, ILT, Dekenstraat 6, B 3000 Leuven; </p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>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</p><p>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) </p><p>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, </p><p>Arabic Document Topic Analysis Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen, Ayman Farahat, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA</p><p>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</p>