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# International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT 2006 — accepted papers

International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT 2006 is the 2006 edition of the International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT, held in London, UK, October 2006. The ACL Anthology lists 12 papers of it; our library holds 7 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 London, [United Kingdom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-kingdom/) · 🗓 October 2006

[**12** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**7** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/2006/#works) · [**41** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/2006/#works)

## All accepted papers (12)

The most cited first; 7 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[An Ambiguity-Controlled Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic Modeling Finite State Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/attia-2006-ambiguity-controlled-morphological-analyzer-modern/)**Mohammed A. Attia*our summary*
2. **[Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-arabic-wordnet-challenges-arabic/)**Sabri Elkateb, William Black, Piek Vossen et al.*our summary*
3. **[Automatic Transliteration of Proper Nouns from Arabic to English ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.bcs-1.7/)**Mehdi M. Kashani, Fred Popowich, Fatiha Sadat
4. **[Challenges in Processing Colloquial Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rozovskaya-2006-challenges-processing-colloquial-arabic/)**Alla Rozovskaya, Richard Sproat, Elabbas Benmamoun*our summary*
5. **[DCU 250 Arabic Dependency Bank: An LFG Gold Standard Resource for the Arabic Penn Treebank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.bcs-1.10/)**Yafa Al-Raheb, A. Akrout, J. van Genabith
6. **[Diacritization: A Challenge to Arabic Treebank Annotation and Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.bcs-1.4/)**Mohamed Maamouri, Seth Kulick, Ann Bies
7. **[Effective Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kadri-2006-effective-stemming-arabic-information-retrieval/)**Youssef Kadri, Jian-Yun Nie*our summary*
8. **[Mapping Interlingua Representations to Feature Structures of Arabic Sentences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaalan-2006-mapping-interlingua-representations-feature-structures/)**Khaled Shaalan, Azza Abdel Monem, Ahmed Rafea et al.*our summary*
9. **[Problems of Arabic Machine Translation: Evaluation of Three Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/izwaini-2006-problems-arabic-machine-translation-evaluation/)**Sattar Izwaini*our summary*
10. **[Standard Arabic Formalization and Linguistic Platform for its Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.bcs-1.8/)**Slim Mesfar
11. **[Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smrz-2006-tips-tricks-prague-arabic-dependency/)**Otakar Smrž*our summary*
12. **[Using Cross-language Information Retrieval for Sentence Alignment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.bcs-1.9/)**Nasredine Semmar, Meriama Laib, Christian Fluhr

## Papers with our summary in our library (7)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Problems of Arabic Machine Translation: Evaluation of Three Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/izwaini-2006-problems-arabic-machine-translation-evaluation/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Sattar Izwaini*2006 · 21 citations*
2. **[Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-arabic-wordnet-challenges-arabic/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Sabri Elkateb, William Black, Piek Vossen, et al.*2006 · 11 citations*
3. **[Mapping Interlingua Representations to Feature Structures of Arabic Sentences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaalan-2006-mapping-interlingua-representations-feature-structures/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Khaled Shaalan, Azza Abdel Monem, Ahmed Rafea, et al.*2006 · 5 citations*
4. **[Effective Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kadri-2006-effective-stemming-arabic-information-retrieval/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Youssef Kadri, Jian-Yun Nie*2006 · 2 citations*
5. **[An Ambiguity-Controlled Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic Modeling Finite State Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/attia-2006-ambiguity-controlled-morphological-analyzer-modern/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Mohammed A. Attia*2006 · 1 citation*
6. **[Challenges in Processing Colloquial Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rozovskaya-2006-challenges-processing-colloquial-arabic/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Alla Rozovskaya, Richard Sproat, Elabbas Benmamoun*2006 · 1 citation*
7. [**Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank**Otakar Smrž*2006*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smrz-2006-tips-tricks-prague-arabic-dependency/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Semitic languages (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Morphology (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Adam Pease**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christiane Fellbaum**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Farwell**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-farwell/) · [🧑‍🔬**Horacio Rodríguez**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/) · [🧑‍🔬**Musa Alkhalifa**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/) · [🧑‍🔬**Piek Vossen**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piek-vossen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sabri Elkateb**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabri-elkateb/) · [🧑‍🔬**William Black**1 work here · 11 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ahmed Rafea**1 work here · 5 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-rafea/) · [🧑‍🔬**Azza Abdel Monem**1 work here · 5 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/azza-abdel-monem/) · [🧑‍🔬**Khaled Shaalan**1 work here · 5 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khaled-shaalan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jian-Yun Nie**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-yun-nie/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Abu Dhabi University** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/abu-dhabi-university/) · [🎓**British University in Dubai** Dubai · United Arab Emirates 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/british-university-in-dubai/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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