Medar Conference

Gold Sponsor:

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Silver Sponsor:

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The conference is held under the auspices of the
Egyptian minister of CIT, His Excellence, Dr. Tarek Kamel

Tutorials

The Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University (FCI-CU)
kindly support the conference.

Time	No.	Tutorial	Teacher
8.30 - 9.00		Registration
9.00 - 11.00	T1	Introduction to Arabic NLP Slides	Nizar Habash Columbia University, USA
11.00 - 11.15		Break
11.15 - 13.15	T2	Arabic Dialect Processing Slides	Mona Diab and Nizar Habash Columbia University, USA
13.15 - 14.15		Lunch
14.15 - 16.15	T3	Machine Translation: challenges and trends Slides	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