Organizers

Conference programme committee
• Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair)
• Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France (co-chair)
• Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
• Ossama Emam, IBM Egypt
• Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan
• Chafik Mokbel, University of Balamand, Lebanon
• Abdelhak Mouradi, ENSIAS, University of Mohammed V Soussi, Morocco
• Mansour Al-Ghamdi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• Ibrahim Al-Kharashi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
• Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA
• Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA
• Chris Cieri, LDC, USA

Scientific Committee
• Mahdi Arar, Birzeit University, West Bank & Gaza Strip
• Mohamed Attia, RDI, Egypt
• Tim Buckwalter, University of Maryland, USA
• Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Achraf Chalabi, Microsoft, Egypt
• Anne DeRoeck, The Open University, United Kingdom
• Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon2, France
• Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA
• Christian Fluhr, France
• Hanna Greige, University of Balamand, Lebanon
• Mohamed Maamouri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens, Greece
• Horacio Rodríguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Mike Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
• Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Nasredine Semmar, CEA, France
• Khaled Shaalan, The British University, Dubai
• Abdelhadi Soudi, ENIM, Morocco

Organising Committee
• Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt
• Mohamed Attia, RDI, Cairo, Egypt
• Hélène Mazo, ELDA, France
• Dorte Haltrup Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark