Arabic WordNet Project Meeting
September 18, 2006

1-S-5 Green Hall, Princeton University

Contacts: Christiane Fellbaum (fellbaum [at] princeton.edu)
 Keisha Craig (kcraig [at] princeton.edu)

9:50 AM Welcome and Introduction

10:00 AM  Introduction to the Project: Motivation, Goals, and Methods
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton)

10:30 AM  Arabic-specific challenges not encountered in other Wordnets
William Black (Manchester) 
Sabri Kateb (Manchester)

11:00 AM   Lexicography Part I: Base Concepts and Extensions
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies)
Sabri Kateb (Manchester) 
Musa Alkhalifa (Barcelona)

11:30 Coffee break and Discussion

11:50 Core Synsets: Resolved and Unresolved Challenges
William Black (Manchester)

12:15 Lunch

1:45 PM  Lexicography Part II: Exploitation of Resources, Encoding, Lexicographer’s Interface, AWN Browser
David Farwell (Barcelona)
Musa Alkhalifa (Barcelona)

2:25 Development of the Browser
Bill Black (Manchester)

2:45 Coffee Break 

3:00 Aligning Arabic WordNet with the SUMO ontology
Adam Pease (Articulate Software)

4:00 - Discussion, Q-A session