Program

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10:05-10:30: Shlomo Yona (Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew)-; A Finite-State Based Morphological Analyzer for Hebrew [abstract]
10:30-10:55: Roy Bar-Haim (Bar-Ilan University) -; Part-of-Speech Tagging for Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages [abstract]
10:55-11:20: Meni Adler (Ben Gurion University) -; A Hebrew morphological disambiguator based on an unsupervised morpheme-based stochastic model [abstract]
11:20-11:45: Danny Shacham (Haifa University) -; Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew Using a Combination of Simple Classifiers [abstract]

13:30-13:35: Welcome
13:35-14:35: Invited Speaker: Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam) -; Between Computational Linguistics and computation for Linguistics [abstract]
14:35-15:00: Mori Rimon (Hebrew University) -; Sentiment Classification: Linguistic and Non-linguistic Issues [abstract]

15:10-15:35: Orna Peleg, Zohar Eviatar, Larry Manevitz, Hananel Hazan (Haifa University) -; The Disambiguation of Heterophonic and Homophonic Homographs in Hebrew: A Parallel Distributed Processing Account [abstract]
15:35-16:00: Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Ariel Peretz, Ariel Kass (Machon Lev) -; Abbreviation Disambiguation without Traditional NLP Methods [abstracts: Hebrew | English (short)]
16:00-16:25: Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin (Tel-Aviv University), Shimon Edelman (Cornell) -; Unsupervised learning of natural languages [abstract]
16:25-16:50: Oren Glickman (Bar-Ilan University) -; Probabilistic Textual Entailment
16:50-17:15: Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) -; Unsupervised Learning of Textual Entailment Relations [abstract]

17:30-18:00: Panel - "cooperation between theoretical and computational linguists in research and technology"; Panelists: Ido Dagan, Nurit Melnik, Mori Rimon