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| Workshop 2005 Calendar | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
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Undergraduate Brown Bag Lunch 12:00 pm Barton 320A A meeting of all WS05 Undergraduates, WS and CLSP faculty from noon to 1 p.m. |
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"Arabic NLP - Part 2" - Lecture by Nizar Habash 1:00 pm Shaffer 3 Nizar Habash will offer a lecture on Arabic NLP from 1:00 - 2:00. This event is part 1. Subsequent lectures will be held on Thursday July 21 and July 28. Abstract: This tutorial provides NLP system developers/researchers with necessary background information for working with the Arabic language, which has recently become a focus of an increasing number of projects in computational linguistics. The goal of the tutorial is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena that need to be addressed and review the state-of-the-art on Arabic processing. Alternative approaches are presented and contrasted for their value in different application contexts e.g., information retrieval versus machine translation. The tutorial is presented in three one-hour lectures. First lecture is a discussion of Arabic phonology and orthography with a focus on Arabic spelling peculiarities and their effect on Arabic processing. Arabic encoding issues are also addressed. In the second lecture, aspects of Arabic morphology are presented and explained. This is followed by a survey of different approaches to address these phenomena. A survey of Arabic syntactic phenomena is presented and syntactic representation in the Penn Arabic Treebank is discussed. Finally, the third lecture is about machine translation and Arabic dialects. Arabic machine translation issues presented by Arabic orthography, morphology and syntax are discussed. Arabic dialects and the kind of problems they present for Arabic NLP are presented. Links to recent publications and available toolkits/ resources for all four sections are provided. This tutorial is designed for computer scientists and linguistics alike. No prior knowledge of Arabic is necessary. Acquaintance with basic formal language theory and knowledge of some programming language will be useful, but not mandatory. TUTORIAL OUTLINE PART 1: Arabic Orthography Phonology Orthography Encoding Issues PART 2: Arabic Morphology and Syntax Introduction to Arabic Morphology Arabic Morphological Analysis/Generation Arabic Syntactic Phenomena PART 3: Machine Translation and Arabic Dialects Arabic Machine Translation issue Introduction to Arabic Dialects Processing of Arabic Dialects |
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Voluntary Dinner Outing 7:00 pm Helmand 806 N. Charles St www.helmand.com meet at 6:45 at Shaffer computer lab - proceed to restaurant as a group - either by car or JHU shuttle. |
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