CONFERENCE AGENDA

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
 
  Technology Track Language Track
7:30 Registration & Breakfast
8:30 Keynote Address
Tongue-tied: Implications and Explanations for America’s Resistance
to Language and Culture Learning
Dr. Janet Breslin-Smith
Professor of National Security Policy, National War College
9:30 Linguistic Enhancements to National Harmony
Benson Margulies
10:15 Break
10:30 Tutorial — Understanding Unicode 5.0
Ken Glidden		 Introduction to the Basis
Transliteration Assistant
Melissa Lucius &
Dr. Bushra Zawaydeh
11:15 Tutorial — Designing Large-Scale Multilingual Systems
Benson Margulies		 Introduction to the Basis
Arabic Editor and Workbench
Mary Galvin &
Bernard Greenberg
12:00 Lunch Break
12:45 What Every Software Developer
Needs to Know About Arabic
Bernard Greenberg		 Romanized Persian in Online Communications
Sabiha Imran
1:30 What Language is That?
Using the Rosette Language Identifier
Nobuo Otsuka		 Looking Behind the Name:
Etymology of Arabic Names
Zina Saadi
2:15 Break
2:30 Putting the Rosette Global Name Matcher to Work
David Murgatroyd
 Reverse Transliteration of
Online Arabic
Eva Sanchez &
Dr. Arnie Chien
3:15 A Crash Course
in Digital Forensics
Dr. Brian Carrier		 Orthographic Variations in Arabic Corpora
Dr. Bushra Zawaydeh &
Zina Saadi
4:00 Break
4:15 Building Applications with the Rosette Linguistic Platform
Steve Cohen &
Ken Glidden 		Chinese Language Analysis:
Solving the Chinese Puzzle
Joe Ho
5:00 Closing Discussion & Feedback