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Day
1: 22nd January, 2009 |
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Time |
Event/Talk |
Speaker |
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08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 - 10:30 |
Opening Ceremony |
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10:30 -11:00 |
Tea
Break |
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Workshops and Demonstrations:
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11:00 - 01:00 |
Finite State Morphology |
Tina Bögel and Miriam Butt
Universität Konstanz, Germany |
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01:00 - 02:00 |
Lunch & Prayer Break |
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02:00 - 03:30 |
Text Mining for Urdu |
Tafseer Ahmad,
Universität Konstanz, Germany and Sadaf Alvi, University of Karachi,
Pakistan
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03:30 - 04:00 |
Tea
Break |
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04:00 - 05:30 |
Automatic Learning of Natural Language Morphology |
John Goldsmith
University of Chicago, USA |
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Day
2: 23rd January, 2009 |
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Time |
Event/Talk |
Speaker |
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08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Invited Speaker |
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10:00 -10:30 |
Tea
Break |
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Session 1: Translation and Transliteration
Chaired by: Dr. Abid Khan |
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10:30 - 10:50 |
Urdu and the Modular Architecture of ParGram |
Tina Boegel, Miriam Jessica Butt, Annette Hautli and Sebastian
Sulger |
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10:50 - 11:10 |
Semi-Automatic Lexical Functional Grammar Development |
Umer Khalid, Nayyara Karamat, Shahid Iqbal and Sarmad Hussain |
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11:10 - 11:30 |
English to Urdu Transliteration System |
Abbas Raza and Madiha Ijaz |
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11:30 - 11:50 |
Hindi to Urdu Conversion: Beyond Simple Transliteration |
Bushra Jawaid and Tafseer Ahmed |
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11:50 - 12:10 |
Adaptive Transliteration Based on Cross-Script Trie Generation: A
Case of Roman-Urdu |
Usman Afzal, Naveed Iqbal Rao and Ahmad Muqeem Sheri |
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12:30 - 02:00 |
Lunch
& Prayer Break |
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Session 2: Semantics and Information Retrieval
Chaired by: Dr.
Miriam Butt |
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02:00 - 02:20 |
Reflexive Anaphora Resolution in Pashto Discourse |
Rahman Ali, Mohammad Abid Khan and Mushtaq Ali |
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02:20 - 02:40 |
Using Levin’s Verb Classification for Preposition Sense Selection in
English to Indian Language MT
(Withdrawn) |
Samar Husain, Phani Chaitanya, Ganeshwar Rao Dulam, Tariq Khan and
Dipti M. Sharma |
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02:40 - 03:00
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Efficient Transformation of a Natural Language Query to SQL for Urdu |
Rashid Ahmad, Mohammad Abid Khan and Rahman Ali |
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03:00 - 03:30 |
Tea
Break |
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03:30 - 05:00 |
Panel Discussion |
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Day
3: 24th January, 2008 |
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Time |
Event/Talk |
Speaker |
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Session 3: Morphological and Syntactic Processing
Chaired by: Dr.
Zafar Iqbal |
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09:00 - 09:20 |
A Corpus-Based Finite State Morphological Analyzer for Pashto |
Fatima Tuz Zuhra and Mohammad Abid Khan |
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09:20 - 09:40 |
Computation of Gender of Urdu Nouns |
Shair Akbar Khan and Mohammad Abid Khan |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
Sindhi Morphology and Noun Inflections |
Mutee U Rahman |
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10:00 - 10:20 |
Rule-Based Part of Speech Tagging for Pashto Language |
Ihsan Rabbi, Mohammad Abid Khan and Rahman Ali |
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10:20 - 10:40 |
N-GRAM Based Authorship Attribution in Urdu Poetry
|
Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar and Sajid Nadeem |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
Tea
Break |
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Session 4: Speech and Image Processing
Chaired
by:
Dr. Syed Afaq Hussain |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Rule Based
Segmentation of Lower Modifiers in Complex Bangla Scripts |
M. A. Hasnat and Mumit Khan |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
Elimination of Splitting Errors in Printed Bangla Scripts |
M. A. Hasnat and Mumit Khan |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
Integrating Bangla Script Recognition Support in Tesseract OCR |
Md. Abul Hasnat, Shouro Chowdhury and Mumit Khan |
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12:00 - 12:20 |
Speech Processing Technology in Second Language Testing |
Marina Dodigovic |
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12:20 - 01:00
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Poster session |
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A SOM Based Offline Recognition System for Segmented Urdu Character
in Nasakh Font
(Withdrawn) |
Afaq Husain Syed |
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Text Normalization System for Bangla |
Firoj Alam, S.M. Murtoza Habib and Mumit Khan |
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Complex Relations Extraction |
Naveed Afzal |
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Urdu-Hindi-Urdu Machine Translation: Some Problems
(Withdrawn) |
Amba Kulkarni, Rahmat Yousufzai, and Pervez Ahmed Azmi |
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Roman to Urdu Transliteration Using Word List |
Tafseer Ahmed |
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English to UNL (Interlingua) Conversion |
Manoj Jain and Om Damani |
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01:30 - 02:30 |
Lunch
& Prayer Break |
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Session 5: Localization
Chaired by:
Dr. Muhammad Afzal |
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02:30 - 02:50 |
Corpus Based Mapping of Urdu Characters for Cell Phones
|
Mohammad
Aamir Khan, Asad Habib, Mohammad Abid Khan and Mohammad Naveed Ali |
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02:50 - 03:10 |
Design of Urdu Virtual Keyboard |
Mohammad Aamir Khan, Mohammad Abid Khan and Mohammad Naveed Ali |
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03:10 - 03:20 |
Proposal of Inclusion of Certain Characters in Unicode |
Muhammad Numan Chishti |
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03:20 - 03:40 |
Analysis of Nastaleeq for Pakistani Languages
(Withdrawn) |
M G Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet and Pushpak Bhattcharyya
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03:40 - 04:30 |
Closing Ceremony |
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04:30 |
Tea
and Departure |
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan