Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
co-located with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar
Workshop Schedule
The Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop will take place on October 25, 2014.
Overall Schedule
9:00-10:30 Session #1 Corpora (4 papers)
10:30-11:00 Break / Poster setup
11:00-12:00 Shared Task Session
11:00-11:30 Task description and summary of results
11:30-11:45 1-minute summary for shared task participants
11:45-12:15 Panel / Group Discussion
12:15-12:30 Poster Teaser 1-minute poster summaries
12:30-14:00 Lunch / Poster Session (8 Main + 9 Shared Task papers)
14:00-15:30 Session #2 Text Mining (4 papers)
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:10 Session #3 Translation & Transliteration (3 papers)
17:10-18:00 Workshop Group Discussion
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Session #1 Corpora
- Using Twitter to Collect a Multi-Dialectal Corpus of Arabic
Hamdy Mubarak and Kareem Darwish - The International Corpus of Arabic: Compilation, Analysis and Evaluation
Sameh Alansary - Building a Corpus for Palestinian Arabic: a Preliminary Study
Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Diyam Akra and Nasser Zalmout - Annotating corpus data for a constructional analysis of motion verbs in Modern Standard Arabic
Dana Abdulrahim
Session #2 Text Mining
- A Large Scale Arabic Sentiment Lexicon for Arabic Opinion Mining
Gilbert Badaro, Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash and Wassim El-Hajj - Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Twitter Feeds
Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser - Arabic Native Language Identification
Shervin Malmasi and Mark Dras - AIDArabic A Named-Entity Disambiguation Framework for Arabic Text
Mohamed Amir Yosef, Marc Spaniol and Gerhard Weikum
Session #3 Translation & Transliteration
- Domain and Dialect Adaptation for Machine Translation into Egyptian Arabic
Serena Jeblee, Weston Feely, Houda Bouamor, Alon Lavie, Nizar Habash and Kemal Oflazer - Uniform Word Segmentation Improves Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation
Kamla Al-Mannai, Hassan Sajjad, Alaa Khader, Fahad Al Obaidli, Preslav Nakov and Stephan Vogel - Arabizi Detection and Conversion to Arabic
Kareem Darwish
Shared Task Main Paper
- The First shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic
Behrang Mohit, Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Wajdi Zaghouani and Ossama Obeid
Poster Session: Main Workshop Papers
- Al-Bayan: An Arabic Question Answering System for the Holy Quran
Heba Abdelnasser, Maha Ragab, Reham Mohamed, Alaa Mohamed, Bassant Farouk, Nagwa El-Makky and Marwan Torki - Combining strategies for tagging and parsing Arabic
Maytham Alabbas and Allan Ramsay - Automatic Arabic diacritics restoration based on deep nets
Ahmad Al Sallab, Mohsen Rashwan, Hazem M. Raafat and Ahmed Rafea - Transliteration of Arabizi into Arabic Orthography: Developing a Parallel Annotated Arabizi-Arabic Script SMS/Chat Corpus
Ann Bies, Zhiyi Song, Mohamed Maamouri, Stephen Grimes, Haejoong Lee, Jonathan Wright, Stephanie Strassel, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander, and Owen Rambow - Tunisian dialect Wordnet : creation and enrichment using web resources and other Wordnets
Rihab Bouchlaghem, Aymen Elkhlifi and Rim Faiz - A Framework for Creating an MWE Computational Lexical Resource for Dialectal Arabic
Abdelati Hawwari, Mohammed Attia and Mona Diab - Semantic Query Expansion for Arabic Information Retrieval
Ashraf Y. Mahgoub, Mohsen A. Rashwan, Hazem Rafaat, Mohamed A. Zahran, and Magda B. Fayek - Named Entity Recognition System for Dialectal Arabic
Ayah Zirikly and Mona Diab
Poster Session: Shared Task Papers
- GWU-HASP: Hybrid Arabic Spelling and Punctuation Corrector
Mona Diab, Mohammed Attia and Mohamed Al-Badrashiny - Arabic Spelling Correction using Supervised Learning
Youssef Hassan, Mohamed Aly and Amir Atiya - CMUQ@The 2014 Automatic Arabic Error Correction Shared Task
Serena Jeblee, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani and Kemal Oflazer - TECHLIMED system description for the Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction
Djamel Mostefa, Omar Asbayou and Ramzi Abbes - Automatic Correction of Arabic Text: a Cascaded Approach
Hamdy Mubarak and Kareem Darwish - Fast and Robust Arabic Error Correction System
Michael Nawar and Moheb Ragheb - The Columbia System in the QALB-2014 Shared Task on Arabic Error Correction
Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander, Noura Farra and Wael Salloum - A Pipeline Approach to Supervised Automatic Error Correction
Nadi Tomeh, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander and Joseph Le Roux - Auto-correction of Arabic common errors for large text corpus
Taha Zerrouki, Khaled Alhowaity and Amar Balla