Subject: semitic languages workshop

workshop on computational approaches to semitic languages coling-acl98 sunday august 16 , 1998 , university of montreal * * call for pre - registration * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 examine the possibilities of supporting such research through national and international funding initiatives . accepted papers concern arabic , hebrew , maltese and akkadian , in following subject areas : tagging , orthography , morphology , syntax / parsing / generation . the programme comprises a session for each of these themes , together with a short supplementary session for short papers . final programme : http : / / www . cs . um . edu . mt / ~ mros / casl / prog . html pre-registration : http : / / coling-acl 98 . iro . umontreal . ca / mainpage . html programme committee members michael rosner , university of malta , malta ( workshop 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 ray fabri , university of malta chadia moghrabi , univerity of moncton , canada mori rimon , hebrew university , israel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - mike rosner ( mros @ cs . um . edu . mt ) last modified : fri feb 20 15 : 08 : 23 met
