Arabic Language Technology International Conference (ALTIC) Program

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (B.A.), Alexandria, Egypt- October 9-10, 2011

• Opening Remarks, Dr. Ahmed Rafea, Conference Chair
• ALTEC Mission, Dr. Aly Fahmy, President of ALTEC
• Speech of Dr. Magdy Nagy, Head of ICT sector B.A. and Conference Co-Chair
• Arabic Language Technologies in B.A., Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of B.A
• Speech of H.E. Dr. Mohamed Salem, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, given by Dr. Sherif Hashem

Chair: Dr. Mohmed Tolba

General Purpose Arabic Hand written and Printed OCR Corpus

Dr. Sherief Abdou, Cairo Universiry, Egypt.

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ALTEC CORPUS: AN ANALYZED ARABIC CORPUS WITH DIACRITIZATION AND

NAMED ENTITIES.

Dr. Sameh Alansary, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt.

Chair: Dr. Aly Fahmy

Dr. Bente Maegaard, Dr.  Ossama Emam, Dr. Mohsen Rashwan

Chair: Dr. Salwa El-Ramly

Tools for Arabic People Names Processing and Retrieval: A Statistical Approach

Ali Salhi, Adnan Yahya, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territory

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Arabic Anaphora Resolution in Holy Qur’an Text

Khadiga Mahmoud, Ali Farghaly, Ali Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt

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A FLEXIBLE SOFTWARE GEARED TOWARDS ARABIC TEXTS I.R. AND EVALUATION Kawakib

Claude Audebert, André Jaccarini, MMSH, France, Christian Gaubert, IFAO, Egypt

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Stemming Arabic using Longest-Match and Dynamic Normalization

Daoud Daoud, Qais Hasan, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan

Chair: Dr. Magdy Nagy

PEDAGOGICAL LEXICOGRAPHY APPLIED TO ARABIC DICTIONARIES AND SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS

Jack Halpern, The CJK Dictionary Institute, Japan

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TOPIC DETECTION IN ARABIC UNVOWELIZED DOCUMENTS

RIM KOULALI,  ABDELOUAFI MEZIANE, LARI Laboratory, Mohammed 1 University, Morocco

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Sentiment Classification Using Text Summarization

Mohamed Abdel Fattah, Helwan University, Egypt

Chair: Dr. Mohamed Afifi

Spoken Language Identification Using Ergodic HMM

Acoustic Modeling

M.Waleed Fakhr, AAST, Sherif Abdou, Cairo University, Ahmed Hashem, AAST, Egypt

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Document Analysis and Preprocessing of Arabic OCR

Hossam Ahmed, Hossam Samy, Khaled Qorany, Mostafa Abdelshafy, Ramy Mohamed, Ahmed Abdel Hameed, Mohsen Rashwan, RDI, Egypt

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Search Engine for Scanned Arabic Documents

Aya Abed, Fatma Tarek, Marwa Farid, Mariam Emad, Abdullah Rashwan, Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt

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TWO PASS SYSTEM FOR ONLINE ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

Ibrahim Hosny, Sherif Abdou, Cairo University, Egypt

Chair: Dr. Ossama Emam

Hebrew To Arabic Translation: Application and Challenges

Ayman Hanafy, Mohamed Bahgat, Sara Noeman, Ossama Emam, IBM-TDC, Egypt, Abe Ittycheriah,  Salim Roukus, IBM – Watson Research, Abdulrahman Almuhareb, Ibrahim Alkharashi, KACST, SA

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BUILDING A MULTILINGUAL AND MIXED ARABIC-ENGLISH CORPUS

Mohammed Mustafa, University of Cape Town, Izzedin Osman, Sudan University of Science and Technology,  Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY FOR ARABIC WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION USING DOCUMENT PREPROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Mohamed El-Gamml, Mohamed Fakhr,  AAST, Mohsen Rashwan, Almo3taz Al-Said, ,  Cairo University, Egypt

Chair:  Dr. Ossama Badawy

Using Wikipedia for Retrieving Arabic Documents

Mohamed Mohamed, Waleed Arafa,  Cairo University, Kareem Darwish,  CMIC, Mervat Gheith, Cairo University, Egypt

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ARQA: An Intelligent Arabic Question Answering System

Osama Badawy, Mohamed Shaheen, Abdelbaki Hamadene, AAST, Egypt

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MULTILINGUAL QUERYING

Mohammed Mustafa, Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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A survey of named entity hierarchies

Noha Ahmed, Ali Farghaly, Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt