--- title: "Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages" description: "Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources 2007 — accepted papers: 11 papers in the…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/2007/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/2007/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Workshop on Computational Approaches to…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/) / 2007 # Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources 2007 — accepted papers Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources 2007 is the 2007 edition of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources, held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 14 papers of it; our library holds 11 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Prague, [Czechia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/czechia/) · 🗓 June 2007 [**14** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**11** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/2007/#works) · [**431** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/2007/#works) ## All accepted papers (14) The most cited first; 11 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[Adapting a Medical speech to speech translation system (MedSLT) to Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bouillon-2007-adapting-medical-speech-speech-translation/)**Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Manny Rayner et al.*our summary* 2. **[An Amharic Stemmer : Reducing Words to their Citation Forms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/argaw-2007-amharic-stemmer-reducing-words-their/)**Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker*our summary* 3. **[An Arabic Slot Grammar Parser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccord-2007-arabic-slot-grammar-parser/)**Michael McCord, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza*our summary* 4. **[Arabic Cross-Document Person Name Normalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/magdy-2007-arabic-cross-document-person-name/)**Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ossama Emam et al.*our summary* 5. **[Arabic Tokenization System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/attia-2007-arabic-tokenization-system/)**Mohammed Attia*our summary* 6. **[Arabic to French Sentence Alignment: Exploration of A Cross-language Information Retrieval Approach ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W07-0810/)**Nasredine Semmar, Christian Fluhr 7. **[Can You Tag the Modal? You Should. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W07-0808/)**Yael Netzer, Meni Adler, David Gabay et al. 8. **[ElixirFM – Implementation of Functional Arabic Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smrz-2007-elixirfm-implementation-functional-arabic-morphology/)**Otakar Smrž*our summary* 9. **[Finding Variants of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nwesri-2007-finding-variants-out-vocabulary-words/)**Abdusalam F.A. Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Falk Scholer*our summary* 10. **[Implementation of the Arabic Numerals and their Syntax in GF ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W07-0802/)**Ali Dada 11. **[Improved Arabic Base Phrase Chunking with a new enriched POS tag set](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diab-2007-improved-arabic-base-phrase-chunking/)**Mona Diab*our summary* 12. **[Person Name Entity Recognition for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaalan-2007-person-name-entity-recognition-arabic/)**Khaled Shaalan, Hafsa Raza*our summary* 13. **[Smoothing a Lexicon-based POS Tagger for Arabic and Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manour-2007-smoothing-lexicon-based-pos-tagger/)**Saib Manour, Khalil Sima'an, Yoad Winter*our summary* 14. **[Syllable-Based Speech Recognition for Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abate-2007-syllable-based-speech-recognition-amharic/)**Solomon Teferra Abate, Wolfgang Menzel*our summary* ## Papers with our summary in our library (11) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Arabic Tokenization System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/attia-2007-arabic-tokenization-system/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Mohammed Attia*2007 · 104 citations* 2. **[Person Name Entity Recognition for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaalan-2007-person-name-entity-recognition-arabic/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Khaled Shaalan, Hafsa Raza*2007 · 97 citations* 3. [**ElixirFM – Implementation of Functional Arabic Morphology**Otakar Smrž*2007 · 62 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smrz-2007-elixirfm-implementation-functional-arabic-morphology/) 4. **[Improved Arabic Base Phrase Chunking with a new enriched POS tag set](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diab-2007-improved-arabic-base-phrase-chunking/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Mona Diab*2007 · 47 citations* 5. [**Smoothing a Lexicon-based POS Tagger for Arabic and Hebrew**Saib Manour, Khalil Sima'an, Yoad Winter*2007 · 34 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manour-2007-smoothing-lexicon-based-pos-tagger/) 6. **[An Amharic Stemmer : Reducing Words to their Citation Forms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/argaw-2007-amharic-stemmer-reducing-words-their/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Atelach Alemu Argaw, Lars Asker*2007 · 26 citations* 7. **[Syllable-Based Speech Recognition for Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abate-2007-syllable-based-speech-recognition-amharic/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Solomon Teferra Abate, Wolfgang Menzel*2007 · 25 citations* 8. **[Arabic Cross-Document Person Name Normalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/magdy-2007-arabic-cross-document-person-name/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ossama Emam, et al.*2007 · 20 citations* 9. **[An Arabic Slot Grammar Parser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mccord-2007-arabic-slot-grammar-parser/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Michael McCord, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza*2007 · 10 citations* 10. **[Adapting a Medical speech to speech translation system (MedSLT) to Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bouillon-2007-adapting-medical-speech-speech-translation/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Pierrette Bouillon, Sonia Halimi, Manny Rayner, et al.*2007 · 5 citations* 11. **[Finding Variants of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nwesri-2007-finding-variants-out-vocabulary-words/) [Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)**Abdusalam F.A. Nwesri, S.M.M. Tahaghoghi, Falk Scholer*2007 · 1 citation* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Morphology (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Speech & spoken language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Named entity recognition (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (11)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Mohammed Attia**1 work here · 104 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-attia/) · [🧑‍🔬**Khaled Shaalan**1 work here · 97 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khaled-shaalan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Otakar Smrž**1 work here · 62 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/otakar-smrz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mona Diab**1 work here · 47 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/) · [🧑‍🔬**Khalil Sima'an**1 work here · 34 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalil-sima-an/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yoad Winter**1 work here · 34 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoad-winter/) · [🧑‍🔬**Atelach Alemu Argaw**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atelach-alemu-argaw/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lars Asker**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lars-asker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Solomon Teferra Abate**1 work here · 25 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/solomon-teferra-abate/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wolfgang Menzel**1 work here · 25 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-menzel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hany Hassan**1 work here · 20 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hany-hassan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kareem Darwish**1 work here · 20 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Universität Hamburg** Hamburg · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/) · [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) · [🎓**Technion – Israel Institute of Technology** Haifa · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technion-israel-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**British University in Dubai** Dubai · United Arab Emirates 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/british-university-in-dubai/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**IBM (Egypt)** Giza · Egypt 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm-egypt/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [↑ back to Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages-common-issues-and/)