The Programme Committee is very grateful to the members of all the Committees who have taken part in the organisation of the Second International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools.

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  Conference Programme Committee

  • Bente Maegaard - CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (co-chair)
  • Khalid Choukri - ELDA, France (co-chair)
  • Mohsen Rashwan - Cairo University, Egypt
  • Ossama Emam - IBM Egypt
  • Mustafa Yaseen - Amman University, Jordan
  • Chafik Mokbel - University of Balamand, Lebanon
  • Abdelhak Mouradi - ENSIAS, University of Mohammed V Soussi, Morocco
  • Mansour Al-Ghamdi - King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Ibrahim Al-Kharashi - King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Steven Krauwer - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Mona Diab - Columbia University, USA
  • Nizar Habash - Columbia University, USA
  • Chris Cieri - LDC, USA

  Scientific Committee

  • Mahdi Arar - Birzeit University, West Bank & Gaza Strip
  • Mohamed Attia - RDI, Egypt
  • Tim Buckwalter - University of Maryland, USA
  • Violetta Cavalli-Sforza - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Achraf Chalabi - Microsoft Innovation Lab Cairo, Egypt
  • Anne DeRoeck - The Open University, United Kingdom
  • Joseph Dichy - Université Lumière Lyon2, France
  • Everhard Ditters - University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Ali Farghaly - Oracle, USA
  • Christian Fluhr - France
  • Hanna Greige - University of Balamand, Lebanon
  • Mohamed Maamouri - LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Stelios Piperidis - ILSP, Greece
  • Horacio Rodríguez - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Mike Rosner - University of Malta, Malta
  • Paolo Rosso - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
  • Nasredine Semmar - CEA, France
  • Khaled Shaalan -The British University, Dubai
  • Abdelhadi Soudi - ENIM, Morocco

 Organising Committee

  • Mohsen Rashwan - Cairo University, Egypt
  • Mohamed Attia - RDI, Egypt
  • Hélène Mazo - ELDA, France
  • Dorte Haltrup Hansen - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Olivier Hamon - ELDA, France

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