Program

The Nineteenth Conference on Language Engineering

Main Conference program

Sunday, 27/9/2020
8:30	-	10:00	Registration
10:00	-	11:00	Opening Session
11:00	-	12:00	Session 1: Chairman: Prof. Aly Aly Fahmi Invited Paper1: New Trends in Developing the Human Language Technologies Prof. Mohsen Rashwan Electronics& Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.
12:00	-	12:30	Coffee Break
12:30	-	13:15	Session 2: Chairman: Prof. Salwa Al-Ramly Invited Paper 2: Lexicon and automatic processing systems. Prof. Wafaa Kamel Fayed Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
13:15	-	14:15	Session 3: Computational Linguistics (I) Chairman: Prof. Wafaa Kamel Bibalex Arabic Linguistic Resources and Tools for Language Engineering ^†SamehAlansary, ^†Magdy Nagi ^†Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt* ^*Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt ^**Computer and System Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Shallow Parsing for Automatic Arabic Text Summarization Sameh Alansary Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
14:15	-	15:15	Lunch Break
15:15	-	16:45	Session 4 (Lecture room) :Artificial Intelligence and NLP Chairman: Prof. Mohsen Rashwan Chatbot System Architecture Moataz Mohammed^* and Mostafa M. Aref^ ^Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain-shams University, Cairo, Egypt.* Arabic Optical Character Recognition using Sequence to Sequence Models Mohamed Sobhi^, Yasser Hifny^, Saleh Mesbah^ ^*Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt. ^**University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt. The Methodology and Uses of Whale Swarm Algorithm Amr M Sauber^, Passent M. El-Kafrawy^,*, Amr. F. Shawish^ ^*Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, Egypt ^**School of Information Technology and Computer Science, Nile University, Egypt
15:15	-	17:15	Session 5 (Small theatre): Corpus based NLP Chairman: Prof M. Younis Elhamalawy A Critical Review of Language Resources and Tools for Arabic Sentiment Analysis. Miramar Etman, SamehAlansary Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. A Pilot Study of Biber’s Model for Language Variation Detection: A Language Engineering Approach* MaramElsaadany^, SamehAlansary^* ^*Pharous University, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt ^**Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Semantic role labeling system for modern standard arabic: a rule based approach AmenaDeif,,SamehAlansary Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. 4.دور القواعد اللغوية في التمييزالآلي بين معاني الحروف خالد مصطفى أبو شبانة^، د. أحمد عبد الغني^* ^قسم اللغة العربية، كلية الآداب، جامعة الإسكندرية، مصر ^*قسم الصوتيات، كلية الآداب، جامعة الإسكندرية، مصر

Monday, 28/9/2020
10:00	-	10:45	Session 6: Artificial Intelligence Chairman: Prof. Sameh Alansary Invited Paper 3: Human perception vs machine interface: an overview Prof. Mervat Fashal Professor in Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
10:45	-	11:45	Session 7: Speech and Speaker Recognition Chairman: Prof Waleed Fakhre Automatic Arabic Speaker Recognition Using Gaussian Mixture Model Mervat Fashal, Amna Dheif, Aya Nabil, Rehab Arafat Phonetics and linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University Alshatby, Alexandria, Egypt End-to-End Arabic Speech Recognition: A Review* Abdelaziz A. Abdelhamid^,Hamzah A. Alsayadi^, IslamHegazy^, Zaki T. Fayed^* ^*Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computer and information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt ^^Computer Science Department, College of Computing and Information Technology, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
11:45	-	12:15	Coffee break
12:15	-	13:15	Session 8: Speech perception Chairman: Prof Mervat Fashal The Perception of Arabic Vowel Length by Native and Non-native Listeners: An Experimental Investigation Eman Kassem* and Lamyaa Tawfik* Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt An Investigation of the Correlation between Perceived Pauses and Syntactic Structures* Israa Elhosiny, Mervat Fashal *Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
13:15	-	14:15	Session 9: Computational Linguistics (II) Chairman: Prof. Seham El-Qareh L’Application du Formalisme des FonctionsLexicales sur la Langue Arabe. Racha Mohammad Salem Département de Langue et de LittératureFrançaises, Faculté des Lettres, Universitéd’Alexandrie, Alexandrie, Egypt. 2.QuellesContraintes pour Traduire la Morphologie et la Syntaxe? AsmaaGaafar Abdel-Rassoul Faculte de Lettres, Universite de Menoufia
14:15	-	15:15	Lunch Break
15:15	-	17:15	Session 10: Speech Analysis Chairman: Amr Gody قياس انفعالات الممثل الصوتية باستخدام تقنيات هندسة اللغة د. صديقة لاشين قسم الدراسات المسرحية-كلية الآداب-جامعة الإسكندرية The Acoustic Characteristics of Read and Spontaneous Colloquial Arabic Speech Corpora: A Pilot Study. Rudyna Ahmed Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt Syllables Classification of ASR using Hybrid Visual Features in Fixed HMM Doaa A. Lehabik , Amr M. Gody , Mohamed H. Merzban, Sameh F. Saad * Electrical Engineering Department, Fayoum University, Fayoum, EGYPT Modern Sciences and Arts University, 6 October City, Giza, Egypt Creating and Implementing ArSL Corpus for Deaf Drivers* Samah A. Abbas^, Hassanin M. Al-Barhamtoshy^, Fahad M. Al-Otaibi^* ^Management Information Systems Department, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ^*Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
17:15	-	18:00	Closing session

Workshops programs

Day	Time	Event	Speaker
September 26, 2020	Workshop of Automatic Linguistic Analysis, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Lecture Hall
	9:00-10:00	Workshop Registration
	10:00-12:00	Practices In Forensic phonetics and linguistics	Dr. Neveen Al Saeed
	12:00-12:30	Coffee Break
	Build an Arabic part of speech tagging using Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
	12:30 – 12:45	Workshop Opening Honorary Chairman	Dr. Sameh Al-Ansary
	12:45 – 13:00	Brief introduction to part of speech tagging.
	13:00 – 13:30	Brief introduction to Hidden marcov model
	13:30 – 14:30	Building the HMM based POS tagger from scratch
	14:30 – 14:45	Testing the built model
	14:45 – 15:30	Lunch Break
	Build your Parser in ten minutes.
	15:30 – 16:00	Brief introduction to syntactic parsing and PCFG .
	16:00 – 16:45	Brief introduction to Penn Arabic Tree Bank
	16:45 – 17:30	Inducing grammar from (PATB)
	17:30 – 17:45	Implementing a Viterbi parser usingthe induced grammar
	17:45 – 18:00	Testing the accuracy of the grammar.
September 29, 2020	Workshop of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP), AASTMT
	10:00 - 11:00	Planned Arrival to Arab Academy Campus in Abu Kir
	11:00 - 11:15	Workshop Opening - Honorary Chairman	Dr. Ismail Abd Al-Ghafar, AASTMT President
	11:15 - 11:45	Brief Introduction to Neural Networks.
	11:45 - 12:30	Distributive Representation of Texts:Word Embedding
	12:30 -13:00	Coffee Break and Networking
	13:00 - 13:45	Language modeling using transformers
	13:45 - 14:30	Hands on BERT (1): Grammar Checking Task
	14:30 - 15:00	Hands on BERT (2): Paraphrasing Checking Task
	15:00 - 15:15	Conference Closure
	15:15 - 16: 15	Lunch Break
	16:15 – 17:00	Back to Alexandrina Bibliotheca, Sidi Gaber Train Station

Program

4.دور القواعد اللغوية في التمييزالآلي بين معاني الحروف