Israeli Seminar in Computational Linguistics ISCOL 2006 University of Haifa, 29 June, 2006

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9:00-9:30	Gathering and refreshments
9:30-9:45	Welcome and Greetings	Prof. Magid Al-Haj, Dean of Research
9:45-10:00	Review of the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew	Prof. Alon Itai, Technion
10:00-11:00	Invited talk Improving knowledge-based parsing with corpus-based methods	Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-11:40	Building and Displaying a Biblical Hebrew Linguistics Data Cube Using XML	JH Kroeze, University of Pretoria
11:40-12:05	Classification of Jewish Law articles	Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Jerusalem College of Technology
12:05-12:30	Modern Hebrew Statistical Parsing: Models and Challenges	Reut Tsarfaty and Khalil Sima'an, ILLC - University of Amsterdam
12:30-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:25	Example-Based Arabic-English Machine Translation	Kfir Bar, Tel Aviv University Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University Yaacov Choueka, Bar Ilan University
14:25-14:50	Characterization and evaluation of computer based support systems for speech-reading for deaf people	Becky Schocken-Topaz, Tel Aviv University
14:50-15:15	An Application of Default Logic to Anaphora Resolution	Ariel Cohen, Ben-Gurion University
15:15-15:45	Coffee break
15:45-16:10	Investigating a Generic Paraphrase-based Approach for Relation Extraction	Lorenza Romano, ITS-Irst Milen Kouylekov, ITS-Irst Idan Szpektor, Bar-Ilan Univeristy Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan Univeristy Alberto Lavelli, ITS-Irst
16:10-16:35	Integrating Pattern-based and Distributional Similarity Methods for Lexical Entailment Acquisition	Shachar Mirkin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University Maayan Geffet, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16:35-17:00	Detecting Chinese Spelling Mistakes	Shachar Mirkin and Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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