semitic languages workshop workshop computational approaches semitic languages colingacl98 sunday august 16 1998 university montreal call pre registration workshop description although exists considerable body cl research specifically targeted semitic languages much work date result initiatives undertaken individual researchers research establishments direct consequence comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners either state art practiced outside locality common challenges faced practitioners potential developing coordinated approach aims workshop therefore provide forum current work broad range subfields presented collected diffused assess state art view identifying promising areas future collaborative research examine possibilities supporting research national international funding initiatives accepted papers concern arabic hebrew maltese akkadian following subject areas tagging orthography morphology syntax parsing generation programme comprises session themes together short supplementary session short papers final programme http www cs um edu mt mros casl prog html preregistration http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca mainpage html programme committee members michael rosner university malta malta workshop coordinator ken beesley xerox research centre europe france joe caruana university malta malta khalid choukri elra elda france yaacov choueka bar ilan university israel fathi debili cnrscellma paris irmc tunisia ray fabri university malta malta mamoun hattab arabic textware amman jordan george kiraz bell labs usa ray fabri university malta chadia moghrabi univerity moncton canada mori rimon hebrew university israel mike rosner mros cs um edu mt last modified fri feb 20 15 08 23 met