9:15-9:30  Welcome and Introduction
  Khalid Choukri, Owen Rambow, Bente Maegaard, and Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi

                Oral Session 1: Syntax, Semantics, and Parsing

9:30-9:50    Structures and Procedures in Arabic Language
  André Jaccarini (1), Christian Gaubert (2), Claude Audebert (1),
  (1)Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme (MMSH), France
  (2)Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire (IFAO), Cairo, Egypt

9:50-10:10  Developing and Evaluating an Arabic Statistical Parser
  Ibrahim Zaghloul (1) and Ahmed Rafea (2)
  (1) Central Lab for Agricultural Expert Systems, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.
  (2) Computer Science and Engineering Dept., American University in Cairo

10:10-10:30 A Dependency Grammar for Amharic
  Michael Gasser
  Indiana University, USA


10:30-11:00 Coffee break


11:00-12:20 Poster Session 1: Morphology & NLP Applications I
  A syllable-based approach to Semitic verbal morphology
  Lynne Cahill,
  University of Brighton, United Kingdom
               
  Using the Yago ontology as a resource for the enrichment of Named Entities in Arabic WordNet
  Lahsen Abouenour (1), Karim Bouzoubaa (1) and Paolo Rosso (2)
  (1) Mohammadia School of Engineers, Med V University Rabat, Morocco
  (2)Natural Language Engineering Lab. - ELiRF, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, Spain

  Light Morphology Processing for Amazighe Language
  Fadoua Ataa Allah and Siham Boulaknadel
  CEISIC, IRCAM, Madinat Al Irfane, Rabat, Morocco
                 
  Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries
  Mahmoud EL-Haj, Udo Kruschwitz and Chris Fox
  School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom

  DefArabicQA: Arabic Definition Question Answering System
  Omar Trigui (1), Lamia Hadrich Belguith (1) and Paolo Rosso (2)
  (1) ANLP Research Group- MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia
  (2) Natural Language Engineering Lab. – EliRF, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, Spain


12:20-13:50  Lunch break

13:50-15:10 Poster Session 2: Morphology & NLP Applications and NLP Tools
  Techniques for Arabic Morphological Detokenization and Orthographic Denormalization
  Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash
  Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, USA

  Tagging Amazigh with AncoraPipe
  Mohamed Outahajala (1), Lahbib Zenkouar (2), Paolo Rosso (3) and Antònia Martí (4)
  (1) IRCAM,
  (2) Mohammadia School of Engineers, Med V University Rabat, Morocco,
  (3) Natural Language Engineering Lab. - ELiRF, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, Spain,
  (4) CLiC - Centre de Llenguatge i Computació, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Verb Morphology of Hebrew and Maltese - Towards an Open Source Type Theoretical Resource Grammar in GF
  Dana Dannélls (1) and John J. Camilleri (2)
  (1) Department of Swedish Language, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;
  (2) Department of Intelligent Computer Systems, University of Malta, Malta

  Syllable Based Transcription of English Words into Perso-Arabic Writing System
  Jalal Maleki
  Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linkping University, Sweden

  COLABA: Arabic Dialect Annotation and Processing
  Mona Diab, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Mohamed Al Tantawy and Yassine Benajiba
  Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, USA
  A Linguistic Search Tool for Semitic Languages
 
  Alon Itai
  Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew, Computer Science Department, Technion, Israel


13:50-15:10  Poster Session 3: Speech & Related resources

  Algerian Arabic Speech database Project (ALGASD): Description and Research Applications
  Ghania Droua-Hamdani (1), Sid Ahmed Selouani (2) and Malika Boudraa (3)
  (1) Speech Processing Laboratory (TAP), CRSTDLA, Algiers, Algeria;
  (2) LARIHS Laboratory, University of Moncton, Canada;
  (3) Speech Communication Laboratory, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria.

  Integrating Annotated Spoken Maltese Data into Corpora of Written Maltese
  Alexandra Vella (1,2), Flavia Chetcuti (1), Sarah Grech (1) and Michael Spagnol (3)
  (1)University of Malta, Malta
  (2)University of Cologne, Germany
  (3) University of Konstanz , German

  A Web Application for Dialectal Arabic Text Annotation
  Yassine Benajiba and Mona Diab
  Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, USA

  Towards a Psycholinguistic Database for Modern Standard Arabic
  Sami Boudelaa and William David Marslen-Wilson
  MRC-Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom


                  Oral Session 2 : Resources and tools for Machine Translation

15:10-15:30 Creating Arabic-English Parallel Word-Aligned Treebank Corpora
  Stephen Grimes, Xuansong Li, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick, Xiaoyi Ma and Stephanie Strassel
  Linguistic Data Consortium, USA

15:30-15:50 Using English as a Pivot Language to Enhance Danish-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation
  Mossab Al-Hunaity, Bente Maegaard and Dorte Hansen
  Center for Language Technology , University of Copenhagen, Denmark

15:50-16:10 Using a Hybrid Word Alignment Approach for Automatic Construction and Updating of Arabic to French Lexicons
  Nasredine Semmar
  CEA LIST, France


16:10-16:30 Coffee break


16:30-17:20 General Discussion
    Cooperation Roadmap for building a sustainable Human Language Technologies for the Arabic language within and outside the Arabic world.

17:20-17:30 Concluding remarks and Closing