3.34 Arabic Seminar programme (85)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Mon, 15 May 89 18:14:18 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 34. Monday, 15 May 1989.

Date: Mon, 15 May 89 09:57:00 BST
From: JLD1@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject: Arabic Seminar programme

Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre
and
Centre of Middle Eastern Studies
Two-day Seminar on Bilingual Computing in Arabic and English
Patron HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

Draft Programme (as at 5.5.89)

Wednesday 6 September
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9.30 - 10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.30 - 11.00 Opening address
11.00 - 12.30 Session 1: COMPUTERS IN ARABIC-ENGLISH LEXICOGRAPHY
11.00 - 11.30 U. Ubaidli: `Construction of an Arabic-based, multilingual
thesaurus for indexing' (Al-Fihrist, Academic Research
Institute, Cyprus).
11.30 - 12.00 Dr M. Farahat: `Semantic features in a practical Arabic lexical
database', (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research).
12.00 - 12.30 S. Al-Kameshi: `OCR algorithm for printed Arabic text' (Arabic
Industrial Development Organization, Iraq).
12.30 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 3.45 Session 2: ARABIC-ENGLISH-ARABIC MACHINE TRANSLATION
2.15 - 2.45 P. Roochnik: `ARABAIN Arabic language parser', (Georgetown
University, Washington, U.S.A.).
2.45 - 3.15 I. Osman: `An algorithm for retrieving Arabic names written in
English', (University of Khartoum, Sudan).
3.15 - 3.45 Dr C.H. Hsu: `Arabic transliteration, a computer-based system',
(National University, Taiwan).
3.45 - 4.15 Tea
4.15 - 6.00 SOFTWARE/HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS' DISPLAYS
6.30 - 7.30 Reception
7.30 Seminar Dinner

Thursday 7 September
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9.15 - 10.45 Session 3: TEACHING ARABIC USING COMPUTERS
9.15 - 9.45 Dr M. Jiyad: `The Proficiency-based Arabic Computer Program on
the IBM PC', (University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.).
9.45 - 10.15 Dr D.B. Parkinson: `Using Hypercard to teach Arabic', (Brigham
Young University, U.S.A.).
10.15 - 10.45 Dr A. Brockett: `The Leeds/Cambridge Arabic-teaching by
computer project', (Leeds University, U.K.).
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.30 SOFTWARE PRODUCERS' PRESENTATIONS
12.30 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 3.45 Session 4: SOFTWARE USERS' EXPERIENCES
2.15 - 2.45 R.A. Kimber: `al-Nashir al-Maktabi in a University Arabic
department', (University of St.Andrews, Scotland).
2.45 - 3.15 A. Ubaydli: `Arabizing the Mac', (University of Cambridge).
3.15 - 3.45 Dr S. al-Yamani: `Software Evaluation Schedule', (Arabian Gulf
University).
3.45 - 4.15 Tea
4.15 - 6.00 Session 5: TERMINOLOGICAL AND RELATED ISSUES
4.15 - 4.45 Dr D. Abdo: `A study of Arabic computer terms', (International
Computer Systems (London) Ltd.).
4.45 - 5.15 Dr S. Abbas: `Arabization of programming languages and text
editing systems', (University of Baghdad), (in Arabic).
5.15 - 5.45 M.A. Shallal: `A Small Personal and Educational Engineering
Dictionary', (University of Technology, Baghdad).
Seminar Convenor:
Ahmad Ubaydli
c/o Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
UK
Telephone: (UK) 0223-335029
Fax: +44 223 334748
Telex: 81240 CAMSPLG
EMail: AU100@UK.AC.CAM.PHX [JANET]
AU100@PHX.CAM.AC.UK [EARN/BITNET etc.]