Workshop:2006 US-Morocco Langauge Technology
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Objectives
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty members, researchers, and students at several Moroccan and American universities, as well as selected industrial employers in Morocco, to engage in building a common research and education agenda through information sharing, goal setting, strategic planning, and cross-cultural teambuilding activities. The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation of the United States of America through an award to Kansas State University.
Research Goals
To enable participating faculty and students from the US and Morocco to:
- Familiarize themselves with research problems currently being tackled and expertise in the Human Language Technologies areas;
- Identify a common set of research problems relating to the processing of the initial languages of interest (English, Arabic and Berber) and make plans to develop HLT applications; and
- Prioritize and develop partnerships to tackle the set of problems.
Education Goals
To enable participants to:
- Identify methodologies for effective teaching of Human Language Technologies to an audience with diverse backgrounds (Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Information Science), and with a wide range of proficiencies in these fields;
- Identify potential contributory components (courses) from each university towards a joint degree program in HLT and needed courses to be developed to complete a program in HLT;
- Develop a plan for implementing the joint HLT curriculum.
Additional goals for the workshop include developing a plan for collaborative exchange between faculty and students in Moroccan universities and universities in the GPN region of the US and increasing ties between industry and academia in Morocco.
Program Committee
Dr. Abdelhadi Soudi , Co-chairEcole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale Dr. Gregory E. Monaco, Co-chairGreat Plains Network Consortium and Kansas State University Dr. Janet Poley , Facilitator American Distance Education Consortium Dr. Violetta Cavalli-Sforza Carnegie-Mellon University
Participants
- Driss Aboutajdine, Mohammed V-Agdal University
- Fadoua Ataa Allah, Mohammed V University
- Siham Boulaknadel, Mohammed V University
- Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Carnegie Mellon University
- Arienne M. Dwyer, University of Kansas
- Abderrahim El Qadi, Mohammed V University
- Alexander Garrett, University of Kansas
- Susan Gauch, University of Kansas
- Nizar Habash, Columbia University
- A Hamdani, Institut d'Etudes et de Recherches pour l'Arabization
- Richard Jackson Harris, Kansas State University
- William Hsu, Kansas State University
- Paul Juell, North Dakota State University
- A Kabbaj, Institut National de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée
- Yamina El Kirat, Faculty of Letters, Mohammed V University
- H. Kerfi, Mediterranean Language Technology Center
- Azzeddine Lazrek, Université Cadi Ayyad
- Chi Lee, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- A. Meziane, Institut d'Etudes et de Recherches pour l'Arabization and Mohammed I University
- Abdelkrim Mokhtari, Université Ibn Tofail, Kénitra
- Gregory E. Monaco, Great Plains Network and Kansas State University
- Janet Poley, American Distance Education Consortium
- Khalid Sami, Cadi Ayyad University
- Abdelilah Salim, Sehlaoui Emporia State University
- Mirco Speretta, University of Kansas
- Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de L'Industrie Minérale
- Mohamed Yeou, Chouaib Doukkali University
- Abdellah Yousfi, Institut d'Etudes et de Recherches pour l'Arabization and Mohammed I University
- L. Zenkouar, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe
