Program
| Friday, 4 May 2007 | |
| Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center (BACC) | |
| 09:00 – 13:00 | Alexandria Tour |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Gathering at the BACC Entrance |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | ICT Tour (by invitation only) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Early Registration |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Dinner (Graeco Roman Restaurant) (by invitation only) |
| Saturday, 5 May 2007 | |
| Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center (BACC), Middle Hall | |
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Opening Ceremony |
Chair: Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt |
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H. E. Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Egypt Hassen Nadir, President, Alexandria University, Egypt Tarcisio Della Senta, President and CEO, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Switzerland Abdulatif Y. Al-Hamad, President and CEO, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Kuwait Mustafa El-Tayeb, Director, Division for Science Policy and Sustainable Development Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO, France Darwish Al-Gobaisi, Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Life--Support Systems (EOLSS), UNESCO, France Abdel Aziz Abid, Senior Program Specialist, Information Society Division, UNESCO, France |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Session 1: Universal Networking Language (UNL) - Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) |
Chair: Abdel Aziz Abid, Senior Program Specialist, Information Society Division, UNESCO, France |
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EOLSS + UNL, New Frontiers in Cyberspace, Tarcisio Della Senta, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Switzerland Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Switzerland Providing a language and knowledge to computers: The Universal Networking Language, Hiroshi Uchida and Meiying Zhu, Universal Networking Language Center, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Japan UNL as a Knowledge Infrastructure: the EOLSS Experience, Ronaldo Martins, Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo Brazil The UNL in Action at the Arabic UNL Language Center: Bridging Language Divide in Global Knowledge Societies, Sameh Alansary, Head of the Arabic UNL Language Center, International School of Information Science (ISIS), Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 2: Horizons for Applications of the UNL System |
Chair: Magdy Nagi, Head of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt |
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The UNL in the Horizon of the Natural Language Processing in America, Mike Dillinger, President of the American Association of Machine Translation, United States of America Horizons of UNL Applications, Meiying Zhu, Deputy Director Universal Networking Language Center, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Japan Library Information System (LIS): An Application on UNL Knowledge Infrastructure, Sameh Alansary, Head of the Arabic UNL Language Center, International School of Information Science (ISIS), Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Open Discussion and Press Conference |
Chair: Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt |
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Tarcisio Della Senta, President and CEO, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Switzerland Magdy Nagi, Head of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Hiroshi Uchida, Universal Networking Language Center, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Meiying Zhu, Deputy Director Universal Networking Language Center, Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation, Japan Sameh Alansary, Head of the Arabic UNL Language Center, International School of Information Science (ISIS), Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Ronaldo Martins, Mackenzie University, Brazil |
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| 17:00 – 19:00 | Library Tour |
| 19:00 – 20:30 | Dinner (Fish Market) |
| Sunday, 6 May 2007 (Closed Meeting for the UNL Society and EOLSS Members) |
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| Location: 3rd Floor Floating Room, (Main Library Building) | |
| 9:00 – 11:00 | Session 1: UNLizing EOLSS |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:30 | Session 2: Work-plan for UNLizing EOLSS - Definition of Tasks in the Industrial Process - Distribution of Roles - Defining Milestones - Technical Requirements - Quality Control and Validation of the Output |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 17:00 | Session 3: The Enconversion Process and Tools - Text Analysis - Dealing with Dictionary and Grammatical Features - The EOLSS-UNL Corpus - EOLSS Graph - LIS |
Monday, 7 May 2007 |
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| Location: 3rd Floor Floating Room, (Main Library Building) | |
| 9:00 – 11:00 | Session 1: Deconversion of EOLSS - Languages Centers Assignments - Technical Support - Technical Coordination and Overall Management - Quality Control and Follow-up |
| 11:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12.30 | Session 2: Developments of the UNL System and Applications - Improving the Universal Words Dictionary and Knowledge Base - Improving Core Software and Tools - Validation of the Work Plan |
| 12:30 – 13.00 | Coffee Break |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Conclusion and Recommendations |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Lunch |