The conference is held under the auspices of the
Egyptian minister of CIT, His Excellence, Dr. Tarek Kamel
Tutorials
Time |
No. |
Tutorial |
By |
8.30 - 9.00 |
|
Registration |
9.00 - 11.00 |
T1 |
Introduction to Arabic NLP
|
Nizar Habash Columbia University, USA |
11.00 - 11.15 |
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Break |
11.15 - 13.15 |
T2 |
Arabic Dialect Processing
|
Mona Diab and Nizar Habash Columbia University, USA |
13.15 - 14.15 |
|
Lunch |
14.15 - 16.15 |
T3 |
Machine Translation: challenges and trends
|
Hany Hassan IBM Cairo HLT group, IBM Egypt
and Prof. Andy Way (DCU) |
16.15 - 16.30 |
|
Break |
16.30 - 18.30 |
T3 |
Machine Translation: challenges and trends - continued |
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The tutorials will take place April 21 2009, in the "Seminar Room 1" at the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University (FCI-CU).
See a map bellow where Grand Hyatt Hotel and Cairo University (neighbouring FCI-CU) are spotted
Note that the tutorials are free of charge when registered to the main conference.
but the number of participants is limited
FCI-CU is close to the main campus of Cairo University but outside it.
It's adjacent to the famous Faculty of Applied Arts from one side and to the Czeck Republic embassy from the other side.
The exact address is 5 Ahmed Zeweil St., Dokki, 12613, Giza.
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