The Sixth Conference
on Language Engineering

December 6-7, 2006, Cairo, Egypt

Organized by
The Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ESLE)

Final Program

Wednesday 6 December 2006

9.00	-	10.00	Registration
10.00	-	10.30	Opening Session
10.30	-	11.00	Coffee Break
11.00	-	12.00	Session 1: Invited Paper 1: Chairman: Prof. Dr. Adeeb R. Ghonaimy مجموعة الأحرف التى تكون ستة جذور ثلاثية فى معجم لسان العرب أ.د/ على حلمى موسى كلية العلوم - جامعة عين شمس
12.00	-	12.30	Break
12.30	-	13.30	Session 2: Man Machine Communication in Natural Language. Chairman: Prof. Dr. Aly Helmy Mousa 1. Processing Arabic Text Content: The Encoding Component in an Interlingual System for Man-Machine Communication in Natural Language. Sameh Alansary^1,2 , Magdy Nagy^1,3 and Noha Adly^1,3 ¹Bibliothecha ALexandria ²Department of Phonetics and Linguistics ³Computer and System Engineering, Department Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University 2. Generating Arabic Text: The Decoding Component in an Interlingual System for Man-Machine Communication in Natural Language. Sameh Alansary^1,2, Magdy Nagy^1,3 , and Noha Adly^1,3 ¹Bibliothecha Alexandria ²Department of Phonetics and Linguistics ³Computer and System Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University
13.30	-	14.30	Session 3: Invited Paper 2: Chairman: Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Farag Current Trends in Processing Arabic Morphology. Taghrid Anbar Faculty of Alson, Ain Shams University
14.30	-	15.30	Lunch
15.30	-	17.00	Session 4: Room A: Speech Synthesis and Recognition Chairman: Prof. Dr. Mohsen Rashwan 1. Arab Tag: A Morphosyntactic Tagger for an Arabic Text-to-Speech System . Z. Zemirl, S. Khabet and M. Mosteghanemi . LCSI Laboratory, SCALA Team Qued-Smar, Algiers, Algeria . 2. Lip Reading in Colored Videos El-Sayed Ahmed Yousef and Rania El-Manfalouty Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University 3. A Distributed Active Noise Control System. O. Abdel Alim¹, N. Hamdy² and M. Kadry² ¹Alexandria University ²Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Abu Kir, Alexandria 4. Vector Quantization based Text-Independent Speaker Identification for Binary Quantized Feature Vectors M. F. Abu El-Yazeed, Nemat S. Abdel Kader and. M. M. El-Henawy Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
15.30	-	17.00	Session 5: Room B: Natural Language Processing I Chairman Prof. Dr. Mohamed Zaki Abdelmegid 1. A Concatinative Approach to Non-Vocalized Arabic Root Extraction. M. El-Kourdi, T. Rachidi, A. Besaid, A. Chekayri and M. Mhamdi Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morroco 2. A Unification Based Parser for Persian. Vahid R. Mirzaeian Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran Iran 3. Arabic Text Categorization Using Machine Learning Arabic Word Net: A Linguistic Resource with a Deep Formal Semantic Foundation . Sabri El-Kateb², William Black¹ , Javier Farrers² , Adam Pease³ and Christiane Felbaum⁴ ¹University of Manchester, UK ²Politechnical University of Catalonia, Spain ³Articulate Software Inc., California, USA ⁴Princeton University, New Jersy, USA 4. A Trainable Arabic Baysian Extractive Generic Text Summarizer Ibrahim Sobh², Nevin Darwish¹ and Magda Fayek¹ ¹Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University ²The Research and Development International Company (RDI)

Thursday 7 December 2006

10.00	-	11.00	Session 6: Room A: Invited Paper 3: Chairma: Prof. Dr. Taghride Anbar Parsing With “Free Word Order” Languages. Allan Ramsay School of Information, University of Manchester, UK
11.00	-	11.30	Coffee break
11.30	-	12.30	Session 7: Room A: Invited paper 4: Chairman: Prof. Aly Fahmy Automatic Processing of Arabic (s) Prof. Dr. Mona T. Diab Computational Linguistics Group (CADIM) - Center for Computational Learning Systems - Columbia University, USA
12.30	-	14.00	Session 8: Room A: National Language Processing II Chairman: Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Farag 1. Automatic Summarization of Arabic Text. Hamdy Soliman Mubarak Sakhr Software Company 2. Component Composition Analysis for Natural Language Processing. Mostafa Ezzat¹, Khaled Shaalan² and Ali Fahmi² ¹Institute of Statistical Studies & Research, Cairo University ²Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University 3. Prediction VS Isnaad: A Unifying Minimalist Approach. Wafa Abd Al-Faheem Batran University College for Women, Ain Shams University
12.30	-	14.00	Session 9: Room B: Automatic Character Recognition. Chairman: Prof. Dr. Hussein Shaheen 1. Bilingual Real-Time Handwritten Numeral Strings Recognition. Mohamed N. Moustafa, Ahmed Mamoun, Mohamed Amr Computer and Systems Department Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt 2. Segmentation and Recognition of Arabic Off-Line Typewritten Text. Ahmed I. El-Rafei and Salwa H. El-Ramly Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University 3. Arabic/English Identification in Document Images. Yasser M. Abass¹, Dr. Waleed Fakhre² and Dr. Mohsen Rashwan^1,3 ¹The Research and Development International Company (RDI). ²Faculty of Engineering, El-Bahrain University. ³Electronics & Communication Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. 4. A Multiple Classifiers System For Solving The Character Recognition Problem In Arabic Alphabet. Randa I. M. Elanwar¹, Mohsen A. A. Rashwan² and Samia Mashali¹ ¹Electronics Research Institute ²Electronics and Communication Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
14.00	-	15.00	Lunch
15.00 15.00	- -	16.00 1600	Session 10: Room A: Speech Processing Chairman: Prof. Dr. Salwa El Ramly 1. A Hybrid Scheme For Copyright Protection and Combined Encryption and Content Watermarking for Speech Signals. Rabab Mahgoub, Attalla Hashad and Sherif Nour EL-Din Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport. 2. End Points Detection Widget Amr Gody Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University 3. Simulation of B-layer Robust Secured Authentication System for Critical Buisness Zaki. T. Fayed Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University Session 11: Room B: Natural Language Processing III Chairman: Prof. Dr. Younis El-Hamalawy 1. Efficient Arabic Morphology Analysis Algorithm. Hoda D. Jomma, Manal A. Ismail and Mohamed I. El-Adawy Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University المتطلبات اللغوية لمعالجة التعابير الاصطلاحية العربية معاجلة آلية د/ وفاء كامل كلية الآداب - جامعة القاهرة تحليل المعلومات لفك اللبس فى النصوص العربية الحديثة المكتوبة د/ سلوى حمادة معهد بحوث الإلكترونيات
16.00	-	16.30	Session 12: Room B: Discussion Panel: Language Engineering and the Arabic Language Chairman: Prof. Dr. Younis El Hamalawy
16.30	-	17.00	Closing Session

Scope of the Conference :

Language analysis and comprehension

Language generation

Spoken language understanding

Discourse & dialogue systems

Evaluation of natural language processing systems

Large corpora

Speech recognition and synthesis

Natural language processing for information retrieval

Machine translation

Language engineering frameworks & methodologies

Language engineering & artificial intelligence

Character recognition

Semantic Web and Ontology Languages

Organizing Committee

Prof. I. Farag Prof. S. Elramly

Prof. A.Z Badr Prof. Y. Dakroury

Dr. A. Bahaa Prof H. Shahein

Eng. A. Hassan

Conference Chairman :

Prof. Dr. M.A Ghonaimy

Conference Secretary General

Prof.Dr. Salwa Elramly

Technical Program Committee (tentative):

Prof. Taghrid Anber , Egypt

Prof. I. Abdel Ghaffar , Egypt

Prof. M.Ghaly, Egypt

Prof. Mohamed Abo Eldahab, Egypt

Prof. M. Z. Abdel Megid, Egypt

Prof. Ayman ElDossouki, Egypt

Prof. Y. ElGamal, Egypt

Prof. M. Elhamalaway, Egypt

Prof. S. Elramly, Egypt

Prof. H.Elshishiny, Egypt

Prof. A.A.Fahmy, Egypt

Prof. I. Farag, Egypt

Prof. Magdi Fikry, Egypt

Prof. Wafa Kamel, Egypt

Prof. A. H. Moussa, Egypt

Prof. M. Nagy, Egypt

Prof. A. Rafae, Egypt

Prof. Mohsen Rashwan, Egypt

Prof. H.I. Shahein, Egypt

Prof. S.I. Shaheen, Egypt

Full papers could be emailed to the address shown below, or sent to :

Prof.Dr. Salwa Elramly (Conference Secretary General)

Egyptian Society Of Language Engineering P.O.B 113 Abbassia

Fac.of Engineering, Ain Shams Univ .

1, El sarayat St., Abbassia Cairo 11517, Egypt

Sramlye@netscape.net

Please indicate the scope of your paper by giving the appropriate number from those indicated above .

Please send your complete mailing address, Email address, phone number and Fax number with your

submission (Authors are to write their names in Arabic separately when appropriate) .

Deadlines :

Submission of full papers ( 3 copies )	20 August 2006
Notification of acceptance of full papers	16 September 2006
Submission of camera ready papers	21 October 2006

E-mail : esle06@esleconf.org

Home page: http://www.esleconf.org

The Sixth Conference on Language Engineering

Hoda D. Jomma, Manal A. Ismail and Mohamed I. El-Adawy

Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University

The Sixth Conference
on Language Engineering