Workshop on
Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
COLING-ACL98
Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal
Workshop Description
Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically
targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the
result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research
establishments.
A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness
amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced
outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all
practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated
approach.
The aims of this workshop are therefore:
- To provide a forum where current work in a broad range
of subfields can be presented, collected and diffused.
- To assess the state of the art with a view to identifying
promising areas for future collaborative research.
- To identify initiatives to explore the possibilities of supporting
such research through national and international funding agencies.
Workshop Programme Committee
Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator)
Ken Beesley, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
Joe Caruana, University of Malta, Malta
Khalid Choukri, ELRA /ELDA, France
Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Fathi Debili, CNRS-CELLMA (Paris) / IRMC, Tunisia
Ray Fabri, University of Malta, Malta
Mamoun Hattab, Arabic Textware, Amman, Jordan
George Kiraz, Bell Labs, USA
Chadia Moghrabi, Univerity of Moncton, Canada
Mori Rimon, Hebrew University, Israel
Sponsor
Mid-Med Bank, Malta
Contact
Michael Rosner: mros@cs.um.edu.mt
Mike Rosner (mros@cs.um.edu.mt)
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