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Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics
ISCOL'03

Technion, Haifa, Wednesday, December 17th, 2003

Hebrew version

Computational linguistics and natural language processing are active research fields in Israel today, as well as popular areas of activity in industry. The Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics is a venue for exchanging ideas, reporting on work in progress as well as established results, forming extramural cooperations and advancing the collaboration between academia and industry. This year's meeting is a sequel to ISCOL'01 which took place at the University of Haifa on February 2001.

This year the Seminar is held in honor of Professor Uzzi Ornan for his 80th birthday. We also take this opportunity to inaugurate the recently created Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew .

Program

The following program is tentative and subject to changes. Most of the presentations will be in Hebrew.

12:00-12:30 Reception and registration
12:30-12:45 Opening
Alon Itai
12:45-13:45 Invited talk
Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland
Automating the Acquisition of World Knowledge
13:45-14:45 Session I
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa
Resources for Processing Hebrew
Alon Itai and Yoad Winter, Technion
Hebrew Morphological Analysis
14:45-15:15 Break
15:15-16:45 Session II
Michael Elhadad, Ben Gurion University
Named Entity Recognition in Hebrew
Bi-dimensional Stochastic Models for Unsupervised Learning Algorithms in Hebrew
Eli Shamir and Yoram Singer, Hebrew University
Learning Algorithms for Text Classification and Ranking
Arnon Cohen, Ben Gurion University
Speaker Verification
16:45-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Special Address
Uzzi Ornan
&al max$bim w-bal$anim (On Computers and Linguists)

Practicalities

The Seminar will take place on Wednesday, 17 December 2003, from 12:00 to 18:00, at the Department of Computer Science, Taub Building, Technion. For directions, please consult this page. To enter the Technion campus, please present this program.

Registration

The Seminar is open for all to participate, and there is no registration fee. However, to facilitate the organization we strongly request that participants register as soon as possible. Registration is not committing, but it will greatly help us to plan ahead. Please register by filling and submitting the following form.

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Acknowledgments

The organization committee of this year's meeting consists of
Alon Itai, Department of Computer Science, Technion
Shuly Wintner, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa

The Seminar is organized by the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew which is funded by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. We gratefully acknowledge additional support from The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at The University of Haifa.

Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/iscol03/
Maintained by shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il. Last modified: Wed Dec 10 15:29:29 IST 2003